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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": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the Motion for Adjournment to discuss this matter of urgent national importance. When the Leader of the Majority Party was moving it, he alluded to the fact that there are those who are seeking to establish a Government other than the way it is stipulated in our Constitution. I wish to draw the attention of the House to Article 3 of our Constitution which states: “Every person has an obligation to respect, uphold and defend the Constitution”. That is what we seek to do today thorough this Motion: to defend and uphold this Constitution. Article 3(2) of the Constitution states: “(2) Any attempt to establish a government otherwise than in compliance with this Constitution is unlawful.” Many of us and, indeed, Kenyans at large can read through the lenses of what the honourable former Prime Minister and his cohorts in NASA are planning to do. It is quite clear that they intend to use violence and intimidation as a tool to stop the elections scheduled for 26th October, 2017 from happening. Thereafter, they would move to the Supreme Court to plead, under Article 81 and 140 of the Constitution, that the elections were not free and fair because they were riddled with violence and intimidation which they will have orchestrated before and during the election. Therefore, we must ask that all State agencies dealing with security must ensure that the country continues to be secure and that every Kenyan anywhere in this country is able to vote without intimidation and violence. I also must add that he who seeks equity must come with clean hands. Therefore, I hope our friends at the Supreme Court, and in the Judiciary generally, are today not blind to what is happening. They shall not be blind to those who will come to seek equity in the petition they will seek to file after the 26th October repeat presidential election in order to nullify it in the pretext that there was violence. As it has been said by those who spoke before me, if it were possible under our laws, a Kenyan would go to court tomorrow and ask the court to initiate a process of ascertaining the senility of one particular old man. We cannot have a country where one person seeks to ascend to power through unconstitutional ways. The Leader of the Majority Party has alluded to the various means that he used in 2007. I want to remind the Leader of the Majority Party that even in 1982, the former Prime Minister sought, through a military coup attempt, to ascend to power but he failed. We all remember that following the 1997 elections, the former Prime Minister got into government through the infamous merger or “marriage” of the then National Democratic Party (NDP) and Kenya African National Union (KANU). You will remember the disaster that that particular political “marriage’’ caused to KANU. He abandoned his colleagues in the Opposition. Let me also take this opportunity to advise our good friend and our fellow Christian, Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka. My friend, you will be abandoned at the eleventh hour should this guy find 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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