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    "speaker_name": "The Senator for Kisii County",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri): Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I stand to oppose this Procedural Motion because looking at the symptomatology or chronology of political events taking place in this country, we are surely driving this nation to an irredeemable level. This is the time when reason and consultations must prevail. You cannot unilaterally set up a select Committee to discuss matters of elections, considering the recent debacle that was witnessed in the handling of the results at the polling stations and the transmission of those results. Some of us in our respective constituencies or counties are privy to how the system was manipulated. It is only that we cannot all be witnesses to these events. I have been through all this process. In 1997 when we had a similar crisis it was prudent then to set up an Inter Parliamentary Parties Group (IPPG) to come up with a solution that was acceptable to all Kenyans. In 2007 I found myself in the Serena Committee trying to resolve this matter. The current Constitution is a product of a very intensive and aggressive participation by all Kenyans from all walks of life. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you cannot change the rules in the middle of a football match. It is ill-thought out and will not augur well. It has no common spirit of moving together. I represent the Kisii County as a Senator and would find it difficult to support a Motion that is one sided. It does not take into account the feelings of people on the ground. We should be in a position to work out this together without causing acrimony and ill feelings amongst the Kenyan people. It is easy to tip this country to another scale. I would not choose that route because as a Christian and peace loving person, I would love this nation to move together. We have seen before previous events that have gone through this route and had disastrous results. We do not have to recount the many disastrous results we have had. Therefore, I feel constrained and will not support this Motion for this basic reason; that we are simply using the tyranny of numbers to bulldoze through a legislation which, by all intents and purposes, is selective. I will not go that route because then I would be falling into the level of selective amnesia; that I am not in this House."
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