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    "id": 756612,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Mungai Mwathi",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Limuru",
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    "content": "We are discussing the President’s Speech. For President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta to come to this House and with all humility tell us how he accepted the decision of the Supreme Court, though bitter, it must have taken him a lot of courage. We are also saying to our people, please, accept that this country has got systems and processes which must be followed. We have commissions which are established under Chapter 15 of the Constitution and there are constitutional ways and processes concerning the removal of commissioners. So, somebody cannot skid on the tarmac then start saying that the commissioners have to leave office. We are telling our competitors, “Sorry that is not the way to go.” It does not matter how much they are going to skid and it does not matter how long they are going to boycott Parliament, business will continue. We have the numbers and they are for Kenyans. The numbers are for Kenyans and not only for Jubilee. The debates that will be held here and the development agenda that we are pursuing are going to assist the whole Republic. We are not just going to look at the areas we got votes. Hon. Speaker, as the debate regarding the Supreme Court rages on - we gladly accept the verdict - they should know that we have a Constitution. If I was occupying the seat of the Chief Justice, I would ask myself, “Who is more supreme? Is it me or the people of Kenya?” What does Article 1 of the Constitution say? It says that all sovereign power is vested in the people. So, I would have thought of the pain I was going to take the people of Kenya through by telling them that because of Forms 34A and Form 34B you woke up, went to queue to vote, but all that is nonsense because of the forms. Actually, the issue was not about numbers but the process. The NASA Coalition is now saying that it wants the results to be electronically transmitted on 17th October 2017. Even in the USA, during their election of President, there was a state where machines used in electronic voting failed. Supposing the machines fail on 17th October 2017, will these people, again, say that the election was not free and fair? The thing is that every party should go out there to talk to the people and look for votes and let the best person win."
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