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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, my second reason for this amendment is that by allowing this Motion to go through and allowing hon. Members to be sworn in a day after other Constitutional Office holders have taken their oath would be sending a very dangerous statement. The statement is that Members of this House may be some rank lower than other Constitutional office holders. It is a fact that we are not any rank lower than any other Constitutional office holder. Therefore, if the oath is being taken tomorrow by the President, the Prime Minister and the Ministers, so must be ours. The reason why we must emphasize this is that originally Kenyans had expected that the Constitution would be promulgated on 20th August, 2010 but that was changed. The change was not just amorphous. The Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) went on and gazetted 27th August, 2010 as the day in which the country should be on the highest alert for this momentous occasion. I now ask hon. Members that if you refuse to take advantage of the heightened alertness in the country for purposes of security that will be provided tomorrow, under what law would you blame the Commissioner of Police if on 28th August, 2010 when you belatedly come to be sworn in you find that there is no sufficient security in Nairobi and you have not succeeded in being sworn in and you lose your seats as Members of Parliament? You will have no reason to walk in your constituency purporting to be a Member of Parliament when you have not taken an oath. So, let us not make it any more expensive or burdensome for the Commissioner of Police by expecting that he is under any obligation on a day outside the gazetted day to provide security for us."
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