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    "content": "leave before casting his vote. Such is an offence and it will be punishable very harshly. It will also be an offence for an IEBC officer to fail to sign declaration forms. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was a victim of this in the last elections. There are situations where an officer declares the distinguished Senator for Nyeri County as a winner rightly because he has won. Then he does not sign the form of declaration that the Senator has won. The declaration of a winner and the time of declaration is critical when you go to court during petitions. For example in my case, when we challenge a petition that was filed 40 days after the declaration, we were shocked to learn that the declaration was undated and unsigned. So, the court ended up saying we cannot determine on this because we do not know when this declaration was made. With that you have no doubt to infer that the omission is fraudulent, criminal and malicious. An officer who does this will be fined Kshs1 million or be jailed for three years or both. This is how to stop this wickedness in our electoral process. Clause (9) deals with offences of bribery; treating, feasting, et cetera, during an electoral period and it carries a heavy sentence of Kshs2 million or six years or both. What is important here - allow Sen. Orengo and his team to include Clause (9)(2); a person who accepts a bribe. The conmen who come to court to pretend that they were bribed so that they can nullify an election normally walk away. If such a conman comes to court and says on this day the distinguished Senator for West Pokot gave me Kshs20 and a cup of tea and a mandazi and induced me to go and vote for him---. A fellow like that will go in, in the same manner as the Senator who bribed him will. This will deter people from being coached and “tuned” to be fraudulent and false witnesses against winners of elections. There are many of them who will just volunteer, they are called witnesses for hire. They will pretend they were there, where they were not, and received what they did not receive, they saw what they did not see and in the end they ruin people’s careers without any justifiable cause. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Clause (12) is very important. If the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) worked well on this, we would go to the next elections a different country. A person or a candidate who uses a public officer of the national security organs to induce or compel any person---. Even as we speak, the officials of Nyumba Kumi, the former DO’s and former DC’s now have a new name - Ward Administrators - and Members like Sen. Khalwale and Sen. Orengo who want to be Governors; they better be alert to this because Governors are recruiting and employing people everywhere including the Senator of West Pokot County. These are public officers earning public salaries and they go everywhere. They are now the campaign managers of the incumbents. This Bill now creates an offence and this offence carries an even heavier penalty and I like this. So, from now a village elder, a Nyumba Kumi member, a sub-county administrator, a county administrator, a regional coordinator, like the Cabinet Minister for Interior and National Coordination, Hon. Nkaissery has been behaving,who will be found championing the cause of a candidate will be fined Kshs10 million. Those village elders who are hearing me I want to urge you fellow Kenyans to steer away from an electoral process. Carry your card and your ID and go and quietly vote for a person of your choice. Do not be lured into being a campaign manager of an incumbent Governor or an incumbent President because that is not your duty. You are employed by the government; whether County or National to discharge duties and responsibilities other than inducing people to vote for the person who you think employed you. You are neither employed by the Governor nor the President, who necessarily is not the current President. Any President in future including me; if a public officer campaigns for me as The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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