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    "id": 757700,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, what I am trying to say is that if, for instance, we look at the rules and regulations of the Supreme Court of Kenya and make it possible, that if a determination is made that actually the petitioner won the elections, then the Supreme Court of Kenya would perhaps have the powers to declare him the winner. By now, we would have had Hon. Raila Odinga declared the President and we would not have to go through this other election. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we must insist given the grave findings by the Supreme Court of Kenya and given the fact that the officers who bungled these elections are known by names. In fact, the Supreme Court did not need to go any further than declaring that there were irregularities and illegalities in that election. The moment they declared so, it was clear who were culpable. It is on that account that we cannot afford another election run by the same fellows who bungled the 8th August 2017 elections. That is what has informed the campaigns that have started today which entail peaceful demonstrations by Kenyans of all works of life. I must thank the Kenyans of goodwill who turned up in large numbers today to carry out peaceful demonstrations which remained peaceful until the police disrupted them. I want to also confirm here that those demonstrations will continue. Come next week Monday, we shall be back. From next week demonstrations will be on Monday and Thursday. Demonstrations are constitutional rights that nobody donates to us. Finally, I heard Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta demonise demonstrations yesterday in some rallies in Eastern Province. We must remind Hon. Uhuru that he is a beneficiary of past demonstrations; that bold Kenyans demonstrated in the past to open up democratic space which in turn made it possible for him to enjoy the trappings of power that he so much enjoys including some Members in this House who could not have made it to this august House without the sacrifices made by those Kenyans who demonstrated to open the democratic space. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this House must go down in history."
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