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    "id": 727995,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "leadership to declare what they want. Let them declare whoever they want to give the ticket to during the nominations. But the National Assembly should never be used to say who will be given the ticket because that is what they want to do. Worse still, they want to use the IEBC such that whoever the IEBC declares as the winner shall be the nominated candidate. The IEBC should supervise elections of this country if there will be disputes. This can even go beyond the elections. The disputes can go to the tribunal and then to court. They will taint the image of the IEBC. Do we want to pass an Act in this House, as the National Assembly, that the IEBC be involved in primary elections? With all due respect, I urge my colleagues to reject any Act that will allow the IEBC to participate in party primaries. Let parties choose who they want. We are headed to the elections. If you find that they were unfair in party primaries, how will you trust them to preside over our elections for the country? Those are the very critical issues that we must ask ourselves. Let us not be selfish. This country will remain. Kenya will remain even if all of us in this House die. I urge the Members of Parliament who are here today to sober up and know that the country will remain. We know we are going for elections. For the Jubilee Alliance Party, it is a do or die. They want the President to be elected and there is nothing wrong with that. They have that ambition. I also want to be a governor and there is nothing wrong with that. More important, let us pass what is good for this country. Let us not pass what is good for the moment or for the time being. Let us not please any group of people, whether they are in power now or they are in the Opposition. I urge members to look at the regulations we want to pass today. It is a dangerous thing for us to pass. It is unfortunate that there are very few members here today to debate this. If they knew the implications it has on them, especially those who are preparing for primaries, they would have attended this sitting of the National Assembly today so that they reject these regulations because they are against what they want to do and what they believe is correct and true. God will bear us witness. I have just looked at the amendment being tabled. If you look at it, you will find that we are not serious. The leadership must take responsibility. Any party can give a direct nomination if they so wish, but the country remains. The Clause I do not like at all states that whoever the IEBC declares the winner becomes the candidate. Of course, the case will go to court and the country has a right to go to court. If they go to court while we are going for elections, what happens if it is found that the person the IEBC declared as a winner did not actually win? What happens to this country? How do we trust them to be in charge of our election process? Let us leave them to handle our election process. Hon. Speaker, I am sure you are aware of this. They are not even prepared for the national elections. They have not bought the equipment required for this country to conduct the General Elections. Let us give them time to prepare for the national elections for Kenyans so that we get the next President fairly elected and when they declare the winner, both sides accept whoever has won did so fairly. This country needs to be united but it cannot be united if we pass this kind of regulations being proposed by my good friend William. I wish these regulations are withdrawn so that they are debated much later and not now because they do not help the country to come together and they are not realistic."
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