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    "content": "life in the midst of “teargas Monday”. I looked at it and asked myself, what are we doing? Here is a man who was in the Nyayo Torture Chambers fighting for the second liberation when people of my generation who include the President and to a small extent the Deputy President, were in either early secondary or late primary school. How could we then take over the leadership of this country and then ask Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’- Nyong’o to go back to the trenches? I will forever salute him. I also hope that upon passing this Report and making the reforms that we have recommended, the Government of Kenya will see the wisdom in withdrawing the case they have preferred against me, for the simple reason that I participated in leading peaceful demonstrations in Kakamega that brought us where we are. I want to speak to two points. The first one is the register of voters and the use of technology in next year’s elections and beyond. There are many people on our side, the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), who would have wanted that we have a new voters’ register and there are many people in the Jubilee Coalition who did not want to hear of anybody touching that register. Granted, the Jubilee Coalition had done a lot of mobilization in the lead up to the 2013 elections and would feel that they will lose something if that register was thrown away and a new one put in place. Similarly, CORD on its fair assumption feared there are many people in that register who are either ‘dead voters’, ghost voters, underage voters or outright illegal voters. I would like to remind both sides that what we achieved was a win-win situation, where we settled on an audit of the register. When you look at it scientifically and critically, a new voters’ register is achieved through a scientific audit of the current register; I will not go into the details. The second and final issue is---"
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