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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mirenga",
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        "legal_name": "Ken Obura Mirenga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. What is critical in this debate is the necessity of an electoral body that can guarantee and serve electoral justice to the people of Kenya. All we need is the IEBC that inspires confidence across the political and ethnic affiliations of the voters because we know the voting patterns in this country. Those are not areas that we would like to ignore. If we have the IEBC that can be an impartial manager of these elections and give us good results, obviously we will have peace and there will always be growth and the investors outside this country will have confidence in our country. I also want to ask the political leadership, including myself, that as we dedicate this moment to reforming the electoral process, let us also not forget to dedicate some, if not a lot of energy and intellect towards hitching a serious political wagon to a higher value that can feed into the very idea for which this country exists. That is the idea of nationhood. This requires of us a change and a re-orientation of our political minds so that we can speak to something that can be good enough for the well-being of this country and her people. There are two big problems that we must face as a country and as a leadership if we want to take this country to the next height. These are tribalism and corruption. These are things that all Kenyans talk about every day but no one is willing to take these two monsters head on. I want to talk about tribalism more than the other vice because all these other social ills anchor themselves around it. We need to re-orient our political narrative to issues that affect our day-to-day lives rather than focusing on personalities and ethnicities. On this one, I want to remind the leaders in this House who are my age-mates what has been said again and again that every generation has a purpose to fulfil. The only work for that generation is to identify it and fulfil it or betray it. The first generation of leaders in this country served their purpose. They fought and succeeded in giving us Independence by fighting the brutal white minority rule. They gave us Independence and we are forever indebted to them. The second generation of leaders fought for the expansion of political space that we enjoy today. They fought for the institutionalisation of democracy. They also fought and ensured that all these constitutional safeguards were created against the whims of those that are in power. We owe them gratitude. The third generation is the one that the Deputy Leader of the Minority Party belongs to. They have a date with destiny because destiny has placed on them the onus of ensuring that they The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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