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    "id": 759383,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I wish to personally oppose that we should adjourn this House. We just came in the other day. We were sworn in, we went for induction for a whole week and have just come in for two days. We have not even learnt the ropes of this House as to how we are supposed to conduct ourselves as Senators. You did a very good induction which will assist us to perform our duties well but before we even start to practice, the House is adjourned. I oppose this strongly. What is the reason for adjournment? I have heard the elaborate support by Sen. Mugo and all she has hinted at is that we are adjourning so that we have the select Committee from what I understood. I stand to be corrected. Sen. Murkomen said we are going so that NASA can go to their campaigns so that we can--- but the gist of it is that this House is being adjourned so that we give time to the Select Committee to go and mutilate the election laws, the very Constitution that is the basis of this nation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have looked at the proposed amendments to the election law and I realise that the powers of the Chairperson of IEBC will be reduced. That is my understanding and I stand to be corrected. However, we will have reduced the powers of the Chairman of the IEBC. That is my understanding of the proposals that are being made. The second proposal is to reduce the quorum of IEBC and any three of them can now do anything. The other amendment that is being proposed is to use the manual way as a back-up for our elections when we had embraced the electronic way to avoid things that happened even in 2007 and it was proposed by the Kriegler Commission that we go electronic. That is why this House is going on recess. We are going to remove the footprints that will show us how to get free and fair elections. If this House is adjourning not to go and do a service that is anchored in the Constitution to protect the laws that we have passed and the supremacy of the Constitution, to reduce the quorum of bodies that have been created and quorum given by the Constitution, then I shudder that I would not myself want to participate in that process. I am happy that we have honourable Senators who have been proposed to go and sit in that Committee to do those things that they are proposing to do. Hon. Senators, Kenya belongs to all of us, and the Constitution was done by Kenyans. We ask you to go sit down and do what is expected by Kenyans lest you will be judged harshly by history. Finally, Sen. Mugo has talked about violence. None of us would want to see even an iota of violence in this country. We want justice for the people of Kenya. We want free and fair treatment of each one of us. Be assured that during this recess, towards whatever election date that will come, for us, we need reforms and not violence. We will go ahead. We have been talking about peaceful demonstrations for reforms. We are not talking about violence and we shall not participate in any way. The welfare of this country is in the hands of those that area going to look into those laws. I beg to oppose."
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