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    "id": 762634,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maore",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": "I do not see the attachment to an individual to be the actual presiding officer and in his absence, nobody else can be able to announce the results of the presidential election. It is not done in any other place. These are the problems that have been brought about by laws that were passed from demonstrations and in the midst of tear gas. This is what happened to this law. People passed a law which does not have a succession clause. They passed a law which is suffocating in its own details. So, this afternoon, we want to clarify that when the IEBC does receive the results, the Chairman should announce them. In his absence, the Vice-Chairperson should do it. It does not have to be this unfair to a country to state the time is wrong. Time for what? October 26th is coming. This is the right time. This is the hour. This is the National Assembly which should correct this. We do not have a spare country where we can experiment with individuals who feel so obsessed with an agenda that we do not have to care about. I heard somebody complaining saying that the story of the economy does not arise. We have been having economic problems for the last 90 days or one year because of political uncertainties when we want to reward hard working Kenyans. Whatever you sell, whether it is food, service or petrol, nothing is working because of the political uncertainty arising out of a careless Supreme Court ruling that did not go into the details of what they were putting the country into. We respect the ruling but, if you look carefully, they were not aware of what they were driving us into as a country. They did not anticipate the mischief of our leaders who do not care about the country, and who are not patriotic. That is because patriotism is an invitation to answer the call of duty for the country and not to the individual."
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