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    "id": 759698,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion and I would also wish to thank Sen. Mwaura for having moved this Motion. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you know as much as I do that on 8th August, 2017, there were elections held in this country. His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta won the elections with a very big margin of 1.4 million votes over and above what his competitor got. We were robbed of victory by the courts of this country. I say this because elections are about numbers. There is no evidence which has been adduced to show that we did not have the numbers that we got - the over 8 million votes – yet the ruling was that we go back and involve ourselves in another election. This is the worst thing that has happened to this country. It is imperative that when one wins an election, he is declared the winner in that election. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, some of us were in the opposition in the early 1990s. We used to say that we want a change of the Constitution and that Moi must go. Eventually and ultimately, Moi went and we changed the Constitution, yet we still continue to behave as if we did not achieve what we wanted to achieve. It is time that Kenyans voted in responsible leaders. One can say that he is a leader or he would want to be a leader, but there is no point of forcing Kenyans to vote for them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the idea of nusu mkate is one that cannot work. We can now see clearly that the opposition does not want elections; they have actually retracted; they do not want to go for the elections. The only thing they want to do is to cause chaos and mayhem in this country so that they can get their nusu mkate . But I would advise them that the best they can do for themselves is to look for votes. They should ask Kenyans to vote for them in the next elections. Unfortunately, Kenyans are set, now more than ever before, to vote for President Uhuru Kenyatta. This time round, Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, the President of this country, will get more than 10 million votes. We will wait and see whether they will still go to the same Supreme Court they went to last time."
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