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    "id": 757519,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "The Leader of the Majority Party explained to us that he was in ODM that time when they organised how to remove Mr. Kivuitu who was the Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK). That was not enough. The person who became the Chair is Mr. Isaack Hassan. The person who wanted to be the chair was Mr. ole Kaparo but the leader of the Opposition preferred Isaack Hassan. He also put Mr. James Oswago to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who was somebody from his area so that they could do ukarabati with elections. When they failed to do that, they were shown the door. I remember very well when we had a parliamentary group meeting in State House last year we all agreed that Hon. Raila Odinga is trying to move this country to the same crisis, but we allowed him to remove that Commission. Since he did not succeed in this election, he wants this Commission to go. We wonder where we are we heading to. I think he is requesting for something that is impossible. We set up this Commission about seven months ago. Because I was in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the last Parliament, we called the current CEO of the IEBC and asked him the problems he was facing. One of the problems was inducting new commissioners when he was already preparing a major election. If you remove him as an experienced CEO and you are left with people who are not experienced, then the election will not be conducted in a fair manner. I think this is the right time we became hard also. If Members of Parliament from the Jubilee side also demonstrate and say we have to go with this Commission and have this election by 26th, that is the better way to go instead of keeping quiet throughout and then we lose a country."
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