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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mugo",
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        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I wish to second this Motion and support it strongly. I thank the Senate Majority Leader for moving this Motion. We, definitely, need to go back to the source, which is the people who sent us to this House. Especially now with the very high political temperatures, the people out there must be wondering what their leaders are thinking. Particularly, I have very close friends out there and respect them a lot. I am sure your voters want to hear what you are thinking. As I support this Motion, I wish to urge the Hon. Senators that as we go for recess, let us please bring the temperatures down. Our people look up to us for guidance and we are capable of bringing the temperatures down. Think of the children out there and the youth. Today the university students were demonstrating. They are taking a leaf from their seniors who they have seen demonstrating. We have to tell our young people that this is not the way to go. The way to go is to reason together, debate, talk and obey rules and laws. I also want to commend the Joint Select Committee. We look forward to having the Members from the other side, so that they can sit together and reason. This is a House for debate and that is why we are here. We now have an opportunity to look at the electoral laws which were passed in haste. Now that we have very many lawyers in this House, I am sure they will give their input. When we look at the judgment, there is nothing that the Judges said to blame the commissioners or members of staff of the IEBC. They talked about the processes and irregularities. Maybe there were gaps in the law and that needs to be relooked at. There could not be a better time than this for the Joint Select Committee to do that. Let us not put a blanket on these amendments. Let us look at each one of them and see the value in each one of them. I was elected quite a few times in Dagoreti and know that one of the rules is recount. You do not just repeat an election. I was actually horrified and surprised when I heard that the elections should be repeated even before recounting the votes. The judges showed that nobody complained about the polling itself. That was supposed to be clear and straight. Nobody was denied an opportunity to vote and put the ballot papers in the"
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