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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, if the enthusiastic Senator listened to me; I never went into the substance of the Bill. I simply said; why are we here? We are here because somebody somewhere wants to change laws relating to elections. I never mentioned an individual but of course, Chinua Achebe said, “When dry bones are mentioned, very old ladies feel very fidgety.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, we set up a Committee chaired by the distinguished Senator for Meru and the distinguished Senator for Siaya, Sen. Murungi and Sen. Orengo, respectively. They did a sterling job. They brought the law here and we all accepted that no comma or full stop should be tinkered with. We passed the law; that is the law we are now seeking to change after a few months. Wole Soyinka said in his book ‘The Man Died’ that a man or woman dies when he or she maintains a conspiracy of silence in the face of wrong doing. It is important that we speak here. I salute the distinguished Senator for Nandi for what he said in the morning. We have sent the matter to the Committee, but it is important for us, as a House, to ask ourselves what happened to the law that was engineered by Sen. Murungi and Sen. Orengo that we all passed in unison.Why are we seeking to change it before we even put it to test or get it working? Why are we seeking to change it?"
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