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    "id": 757538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "the history of Africa is that there is no country, not even one, not even South Africa that has witnessed a nullification of a presidential election outcome. Hon. Speaker, we were even advised then that there are only three other countries in the world, before Kenya’s Supreme Court ruling, that had their presidential elections nullified. Despite that, we respected the supreme law that we passed in 2010 and went to court and presented our evidence. Today, I hear that it is Raila Odinga who has brought people to where we are. It is not true. The truth is that it is the reelection of Uhuru Kenyatta that has brought us here. I know it is sometimes very difficult to accept. It is very difficult. Even when you lose your wife, when the body is still at the mortuary, you would not even know that your wife is dead. It is very painful. Some of us have gone through this. I urge my colleagues in the Jubilee Coalition to relax. I know what you feel but you are feeling exactly what we have been feeling for so many years. Elections have been rigged and our victory stolen a number of times. So, I ask you to relax. Anger will not help this country. It is the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kenya which made a determination. Raila Odinga does not sit in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is led by none other than Justice Maraga, and he has eminent judges on that Bench. If you look at all of them, including Justice Njoki Ndung’u, you get impressed. She is my friend. I have some reservations but because she is there, I respect her. The decision to nullify the presidential election of 8th August, 2017 was made by the Supreme Court. Instead of making noise, let us see how we can best utilise this opportunity. Kenya has been praised to be the only fourth country in the world to do this. If you are confident that you won the presidential election on 8th August, what is this anger for? You will still win the election, but I ask you to wait. I know you are jittery because you lost this election. That is why you are jittery. I advise my colleagues who are thinking of taking us back to the manual system of voting that there is a reason as to why we left the manual system. Following the 2007 General Election, Justice Kriegler came to this country and after analysing our electoral system, it was decided that we need to go electronic. Let us not think backward. Do not take us back to the stone age period. We have left that period. We are moving forward. I want to conclude because I can see that my time is almost up. Allow me to, at least, read Article 37 of the Constitution. It gives us an inalienable right to picket and to protest peacefully, which we have been doing. Nobody destroyed anyone’s property today. It was the police who were violent. I ask President Uhuru Kenyatta to hold---"
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