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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "cannot come and tell you they are innocent and you accept it. Let those processes go where they belong. I can tell you that is how it is going to be. What irritated the Senate and this House is how they just went and decided things which are outside their mandate? In 2012, there was a USA Senator from Maine called Lieberman. The Democratic Party in its wisdom thought Lieberman was not good enough for their party. Lieberman is still a Senator to date. He walked out and became an independent candidate and I think he is still a Senator. He ashamed the people who were plotting against him. Where people are in groups, somebody may not like your face, or somebody may just want to do it differently. Let me plead with all of us. What brings chaos in this country is what all political parties must do to assure Kenyans that it is okay to stay together. You cannot force people to stay with you. You also cannot put people in a corner. I am in CORD and in the ODM. In CORD, we do not have a problem because we consult; we have no reason to be dictatorial. In the ODM, it is too large. The country must understand as Hon. Onyura has said that no political party has capacity to conduct this thing called “nomination”. I have asked myself why in Gem, when nomination papers for my party leave Nairobi at whatever time, it takes them two days to get there. It is because there are some outside players. If we want to fix the nomination process, we must get the National Intelligence Service (NIS) out of it. That is the elephant in the nomination process. If you take Akamba Bus at 9.00 p.m., you will take breakfast in Busia. How come nomination papers cannot get to Busia the following morning? These are questions that we must deal with."
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