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"content": "repeat election – not within 40 or 50 days, but within 60 days. The 60th day for this matter will be on 1st November, 2017. In following all that, there is an atmosphere that our colleagues will boycott the election. Hon. Speaker, it is not the first time I am hearing of people wanting to boycott elections. In the year 2007, some of the candidates who stood against me boycotted elections, but I ended up being the Member of Parliament for Dujis then. The date is fast approaching for the fresh election. I can confirm to the country that our Jubilee Parliamentary Group Meeting this morning was more on training of our Members as chief agents and how to conduct the repeat presidential election. So, today, all of us as chief agents are going to be in charge of the whole team that will be in charge of that election. Hon. Speaker, if you allow me, I want to refer to Article 140(3). It provides that a fresh election following the nullification by the Supreme Court of the election result shall be held within 60 days. That is a provision of the Constitution. In this regard, the Constitution makes it mandatory and clear that elections must be held within the prescribed timelines. Hon. Speaker, I am a leader in this country – at least I am serving my third term. When I see leaders in this country saying there will be no election, I ask myself the same fundamental question the Deputy President always asks on television: When you say there will be no election, the question that comes next is: “As who?” Who are you? You are neither IEBC nor the Supreme Court. You are just like any other contestant or political party. The same people keep on lecturing us about impunity, violation of the Constitution and us taking Kenya back and yet, they are the ones who are taking us back. Let us be very candid today. In the year 2007, the same gentleman lost to President Mwai Kibaki. Unfortunately, that time I was on the other side of the gentleman. However, I confess and I want to be on HANSARD today that we lost that election. I was a very senior member of Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) then. However, as that as it may be, that gentleman said for him to win the next election, we must remove the then Mr. Kivuitu-led Commission. This House was used as a rubberstamp to remove the late Mr. Kivuitu and his team through the National Accord arrangement and the Kriegler Commission. In the year 2013, the same gentleman again lost to a Commission in which he single-handedly appointed. I want to speak for the previous Chairman of IEBC, Mr. Isaak Hassan. When he lost in the year 2007, he went into a Coalition Government. He was an appointee of Raila Amollo Odinga. However, when he lost in the year 2013, he said for him to win in the year 2017, we must remove Mr. Isaack Hassan and his Commission. Again, through some Joint Committee led by Sen. James Orengo and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr--- I am sure the Members who were in the 11th Parliament and you as our Speaker were taken through a route by the same man and we said we must remove that Commission. We removed that Commission and brought the so-called technology to the Election Act. On 8th August 2017, the same gentleman again lost by 1.5 million votes. He now tells us that for him to win the repeat election, we must have another printer that will print the ballot boxes; that we must change the company that deals with the technology; that we must change Chiloba/Chebukati and the entire team. Hon. Speaker, this gentleman knows that he does not have the numbers. Elections are won by numbers. And since he does not have a strategy according to the Deputy Speaker here who knows the guy because he was also rigged in the year 2007 ODM nominations, that is how he missed the 10th Parliament in favour of Z.K. Cheruiyot, he says the Constitution and IEBC Act are not perfect, men and women acting at our IEBC are not good unless he is declared the President of the Republic of Kenya. We want to tell him from the Floor of this House that those 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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