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    "id": 731435,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice. First, I am a member of the Committee on Delegated Legislation that sat and went through these regulations. They have come here on the Floor of this House. We can assure you that we did quite some good work and I believe that IEBC is ready to go and conduct elections. I think what the Member for Nambale, my good friend Hon. Bunyasi, has spoken about is exactly what I wanted to say. But I will say it. It is time for election. We must do an analysis of the systems that IEBC is going to use for voter registration. In fact, we are just putting on high alert that they must test their systems. Even the last elections, the media houses were relaying results. They had their own tallying centres but, at the end, they were presenting and saying they were not official results. Official results would be declared by IEBC. So, there is nothing wrong for anybody trying to do the same thing as long as you are not declaring yourself or declaring that those are the official results of IEBC, but you can just do a comparative analysis. What the Hon. Prime Minister said is being blown out of proportion. He did not mean what is being insinuated. Speaking as a Member of the Orange Democratic Movement, some things being insinuated here that people have been given direct nominations for the highest bidder are not true. I am one of the beneficiaries and I paid no cent. I was unopposed. I am being given a certificate because nobody stepped forward to oppose me. That does not mean that I paid money. They should mind their own affairs and stop interfering. It is not payback time. Let us not raise temperatures in the country. It is time for us to politic, but we must be careful with our pronouncements. Some of the pronouncements that we are making are creating hatred. We are trying to make some people be looked at in different lights. We must be careful. In politics, something very small can trigger violence. We condemn any form of violence against anybody. Even as our party has come out strongly and condemned what happened in Migori. Nobody can condone such a thing. We have seen even within our own party machinery that we have disciplined some Members who have been involved in violence. These regulations are good. I believe there must be some weaknesses here and there but, I am sure they are good enough for IEBC to run a free and credible election. It is now up to them. This is going to be a litmus test for them because they are new. It is time for them to make Kenyans have confidence in the institution of IEBC. They are an independent body. They are not subject to anybody directing them. It is up to them to conduct elections and give Kenyans credible results that are acceptable to everybody. Let the winners celebrate and let the losers also celebrate. They will have known that, at least, it was a free, fair and credible election. We believe that these laws are good enough to give teeth to IEBC to crack its whip in areas where people are misbehaving. They should not even look at the other side. They should not even pretend that they have not heard who is saying what. From both The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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