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    "content": "When the President was coming on board, people thought that this was a young government coming from the State House that is the best person to deal with tribalism and corruption. But in the last Government, that is where we saw corruption live. If you are going to continue like this in the 12th Parliament or Government, we are not serious as Kenyans. We must make sure that what is for the people is for the people and what is ours is ours. The national and county governments must work properly for us to achieve our purpose. I have heard many comments on the just concluded elections. I am surprised that people speak as if they do not know the truth. You know how bungled the last election was; from the sub county, that is MCAs to the Presidency. There was a figure of 54 per cent running across to over 170 Members of Parliament (MPs). That alone should signal to Kenyans that something went wrong. The vote difference between the two major presidential candidates was 1.4 million votes. That was a second pointer that something went wrong. It is unfortunate that we can sit here and pretend that nothing went wrong: That, elections were done well and that IEBC did what they were supposed to do. There was a lot of manipulation. We all know that. If we want to take Kenya forward, let us be very serious with what we are doing. We will have a repeat of the elections but we cannot have it with the same IEBC officials who participated in the anomalies that we witnessed. We will not take that. I believe Kenyans know that we must do the right thing. We will give the Government or Jubilee time to make sure that they do not interfere with elections and the IEBC. They are the same people who said that the IEBC should be independent yet they are the same people who are manipulating it. It is known. We are not pretending. If you look at the way the President reacted on Saturday after the court ruled on Friday, it was such a shame that a Head of State of a country like Kenya, in the 21st Century can speak and be very abusive to an independent institution like the Judiciary. You want to tell us that it was right; that, the President is trying to unite Kenya? Let us stop pretending and be very serious. If the IEBC remains the way it is, there will be no elections. We must make corrections. There are people who should not be there. We all know them. In their presence, it will be a challenge for anybody to go to the elections because we will come out with the same results. Last time, the Jubilee Government was going round saying that they will have a big gap at 54 per cent. That is exactly what we saw. This time, they are saying it will be 62 per cent. We want to see if that 62 per cent is what they are planning to attain."
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