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    "id": 763037,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. I take this opportunity to thank my colleague for being magnanimous enough to appoint me as one of the Members of the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on Election Laws that heard the opinions of members of the public on this Bill. I congratulate my colleagues on having passed this Bill up to the stage that we are debating. A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court of Kenya passed a judgment that annulled the general elections. In doing so, it pronounced that there were irregularities and illegalities. Moreover, Justice Maraga in one of his pronouncement when he rendered the judgment said: “On the question of adequacy of time that the Judiciary has to deal with Presidential elections, it is the Legislature that has got to find time and do its work and provide a legal framework on how the Judiciary will proceed on it.” By inference, this applies to many other issues. The Legislature has now pronounced itself. The country can now move forward. We can be able to say that there is a reference point to which elections can be conducted on 26th October, 2017. We have said many times that our colleagues on the Minority side are absent to take part in this procedure. Other than participating here, they have been in every media house saying that they are waiting for this House to pass this Bill and when it will be assented to, they will go to court for it to be annulled. I want to tell them that we are clear we have done our work. Kenyans now know who is for the country and who is not for it; who is ready to do the right thing and who is not ready to do the right thing. I urge the Judiciary because they called upon the Legislature to do its work by providing a legal framework for elections to be done in this country, they should not allow the judiciary to be used by the Minority side to curtail progress in this country."
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