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    "id": 762637,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Motion. The Supreme Court ruled that our votes did not make any sense on 8th August 2017 and that we must repeat the polls. It also ruled that those elections will be conducted by IEBC as it is today. I saw members of the Opposition rejoicing and dancing in town. I saw that leader with grandchildren dancing in town because of the judgement which had been made in his favour. I am surprised. Apparently, he never accepted the entire judgement which said that the presidential elections have been nullified and fresh presidential elections will be conducted within 60 days. He accepted the nullification, but does not seem to have accepted the fresh elections to be conducted by IEBC. He is giving conditions and terms which he calls irreducible demands against IEBC. At one time, he said that we should respect independent institutions like the Judiciary, which we do. Our side has respected it. We have said we do not agree with the decision, but we will respect it because it has been made by a proper institution. How come he does not respect an independent institution called IEBC? IEBC is as independent as the Judiciary. If you respect the Judiciary, then you should respect IEBC and those others. We have since learnt that a decision was made on fake documents. We have not gone to the streets to demonstrate. How could a decision be made on fake documents? Instead, we have abided by the decision of the Supreme Court and we are campaigning for the election that will be done on 26th of this month. If for any reason the other candidate fears--- I can see he has cause to fear because half of the few people he had have moved over to Jubilee. So, he does not want to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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