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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Eleventh Parliament had a very big task of ensuring that we are able to create enabling legislation, depending on the schedules of the Constitution that would actually ensure that the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, is fully implemented. However, I think it is in the Twelfth Parliament where you find the actual implementation of the Constitution. This is where the rubber is meeting the road. We have practical experiences of how individuals are using the Constitution to exercise their democratic right, but more poignantly, to actually occasion a constitutional crisis. For example, how would you explain the case of an individual, who is running for the Office of President and then goes ahead to resign from running for that same position even when the Supreme Court has given him an opportunity to buttress his win, if at all he had actually won? We are in a country where laws are very clear on how a candidate for an election is supposed to tender their resignation, and yet some individuals would want to imagine that they are above the law? What kind of precedent are we creating? We have a good opportunity. There comes a time when it is not necessarily a matter of law, but principle and belief; that we must stand for this country to continue being what it has always been. I believe that, that voice of reason is resident within the nominees to this Select Committee. These are men and women of integrity who will ensure that all the laws that we will make will serve the purpose of this election. Otherwise, we will not allow a situation where this country goes into anarchy. We will equally not allow a situation where one is given his democratic right to run for office and even goes ahead to fundraise and then they pocket the money. We cannot allow Kenyans to be misused for political expediency. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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