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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "be embarrassed. Instead of receiving 6 million votes, he will receive one million votes from Nyanza. That is why he may want to withdraw. I sympathise with him. Has he withdrawn? If he has withdrawn, he has withdrawn with reasons. He has realised that he is going to garner very few votes. But why should he put Kenyans into violence? He seems not to mind. Yesterday, some three people who were demonstrating were knocked down by a vehicle. One person was shot in the foot. He does not care and does not feel sympathy for those people who are suffering because of his demand for demonstrations in the country. On Friday, I read a story in The Star newspaper about two ladies in Mathare. One is 19 years old and the other one is 21 years old. The two ladies lost their husbands following the announcement that declared Uhuru the winner of the presidential election of 8th August, 2017. His opponent asked people to demonstrate against that declaration. Those two young girls have lost their husbands. It does not seem to affect him at all. He has no sympathy for those two young girls with one child each. He wants to put more and more young girls in that situation. I do not know what has become of Kenyans. Why can Kenyans not think about this? Which is better – to handle the situation in Parliament or to handle it through demonstrations in the streets? Which is better – to read a Motion in Parliament or to destroy a supermarket in Kisumu? Which is better – to campaign peacefully or to campaign through demonstrations with consequences? They have demanded that some officers at IEBC be removed and then they want to do that violently because the law does not allow. Everybody is assumed to be innocent until you prove him or her to be guilty in a court of law. We want to tell the Commissioners of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to stay firm. You are Kenyans the same way these people demanding for your removal are. Stay firm because the Constitution provides very well that no person can be violently removed from his position or wherever he stays. That is a right. You cannot be removed from wherever you are violently. Our National Super Alliance (NASA) friends - I do not know whether they are friends or opponents - are demanding to violently remove those officers from the IEBC. They are going against the Constitution. I am even surprised why the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has not investigated and taken them to court because they are violating the rights of those officers of IEBC. This country is great. We will now spend another Kshs14 billion or Kshs15 billion to conduct this fresh election. That money could have been used to provide jobs for close to 100,000 young people. But now we are spending it because of somebody who can never be satisfied until and unless he wins. He cannot win because Kenyans have known that he cannot provide proper leadership. That is why he has vied for the presidency the last four times and has lost. Every time he loses, he demands that the electoral body must be dissolved. If we agree to dissolve this election body, why can we not ask him to appoint his mother, wife and children to be the commissioners of IEBC? Maybe, then he will be satisfied because he will never be satisfied. He demanded for the removal of Kivuitu and he was removed. He demanded for Hassan to be removed and he was removed. He is now demanding that Chebukati and his group should be removed. If we accept that, then we should ask him to provide members of his family to be commissioners of the IEBC. Ida can be the chairperson. Is she a lawyer? The others can be commissioners so that they are satisfied. Even if they were the commissioners, there is no way he would beat Uhuru-Ruto. These people have done their job very well for Kenyans. They are doing much more for Kenyans and are peaceful. They do not go around getting people’s kids killed. Therefore, they have wider support now than they had on 8th August. There are those who are complaining that we are rushing the law. The Supreme Court pronounced itself and said that if we conduct the election with those irregularities, it will nullify 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."
}