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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Article 95 of the Constitution is very clear that this House can deliberate and resolve on any issue of national importance. Today, as we debate this Motion for Adjournment, I want to call upon both sides of the divide that we have a nation that we must guard. I want to borrow the words of one transformative leader, Martin Luther King Jr. He said this: “We better learn to live together as brothers or we perish together as fools.” Whether you are in the National Super Alliance (NASA) or Jubilee, the elections must be credible, free and fair. Article 140 of the Constitution is very clear in terms of validity of the presidential results. It clearly outlines that you petition the Supreme Court and whatever the Supreme Court decides is final. I am from the NASA Coalition and our side was not ready to go back to the Supreme Court. I had just come back from the Vatican where I went to pray. I prayed for this nation. When I came back and we were in the NASA Parliamentary Group (PG) meeting, I rose and said that with the glaring evidence that we had, let us go to the Supreme Court. The decision was made. The Jubilee side made it very clear that if we were not comfortable we should go to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court made a decision and it is important for our colleagues to know that the decision made is final. The results and the process were fraudulent. Obviously, if the process was fraudulent then the output is fraudulent. I listened keenly in court. It was asked what those results we were seeing on TV were. One counsel, Lawyer Nyamodi, said that those were not results, they were statistics and data. We have seen that the Kenya Integrated Elections Management System (KIEMS) and the servers were never opened as per the directive of the Supreme Court. It would have been a very good opportunity for the IEBC to discredit whatever our side was saying if the servers were opened. We will go for the election on 26th October. The elections voting started before 8th August. Even after the results had been declared, when you went to the servers you could see that the results were still trickling in. This is to tell you that there was something wrong within that process. For us to be assured of free and fair elections, it is important that we have a level playing ground. Otherwise, it would be useless if we go back and yet the ICT system has not been corrected. As we debate, we have nowhere to go, as I said earlier - whether you are in Jubilee or NASA. Under Article 37 of the Constitution, every citizen has a right to picket and demonstrate. As NASA, we are demonstrating and picketing today, but if there are criminals, the police are there to take charge of that. As per Article 37 of the Constitution, there is nowhere you ask for permission from the police for purposes of picketing. You only notify them so that they provide 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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