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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "tallying centre. Any political party can set up its own tallying centre, but for purposes of its own consumption of whatever results it gets. However, purporting that you will set up a tallying centre and announce the results to the country is playing with fire. I want to be on record saying that, that call by Hon. Odinga to establish a tallying centre and announce results is a call to war for this country. It is a call to civil war. We know the script. We were in this country in 2007/2008 when people started demanding and saying “No Raila, No Peace” after people declared themselves winners from their own tallying centres outside the established legal mechanisms of the IEBC or the former Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC). I want to ask my colleagues within NASA to be leaders who respect the rule of law. When we pass laws in this country, let us respect them. You cannot purport to announce results. I am sure Hon. Raila Odinga is motivated by what happened in West Africa a few months ago where people moved to a different country to be sworn in. He probably hopes that he can cross borders after announcing himself a winner to get sworn in. I want to tell Hon. Raila Odinga from this Floor that Kenyans are not ready to shed blood again over his raw thirst for power. Respect the IEBC and the laws that have been put in place in this country and allow the IEBC to conduct its work as the IEBC."
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