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    "id": 757586,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to speak in this House. I wish to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for moving this Motion so that we can discuss matters of national importance. Indeed, there are a lot of things going on in the country and we need to take caution. I would wish to refer this House to Chapter Four of the Constitution on the Bill of Rights and specifically Article 35(2) which states: “(2) Every person has the right to the correction or deletion of untrue or misleading information that affects that person.” At this point in time a lot of untrue information is flowing in Kenya and many Kenyans are being misled. I believe it is the duty and purpose of this House to guide Kenyans on the truth. To invoke Article 37 of the Constitution and use it to threaten the removal of people from a constitutional office is unlawful. Many speakers in this House have already said that it is not true that what we have now in terms of the presidency is a temporary incumbency. The Constitution is clear that the transition is seamless. Let us put the facts straight. First of all, the Supreme Court nullified the election of the President that was conducted on 8th August 2017. The same Supreme Court gave a ruling that we should have another election in 60 days. It also went further ahead to say that the IEBC should conduct the re-election. We were waiting for the comprehensive judgment so that we may know whether the Supreme Court implicated any member of the IEBC in the illegalities and irregularities. The Supreme Court did not do that. Instead, the Supreme Court clearly said that the IEBC should conduct a fresh presidential election as specified in its ruling. What does that tell us? It tells us that the IEBC was cleared by the same court that the people in the minority believe in so much. They believe in the ruling so much. In the same faith, we should believe in the fact that the IEBC has been cleared to conduct the election. The entire IEBC, not in part, was cleared of any wrong- doing. Therefore, we should give them that particular opportunity and the chance to conduct the repeat election. 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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