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    "id": 901676,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "satisfied. Such a person could go away but swear an affidavit that they were forced to sign at gunpoint or rungu -point. That automatically raises an electoral dispute. You cannot water down the evidence of such a person simply because of a signature on a document because we have many injustices in our electoral system that the only last resort remains the courts. You will remember in the Presidential Petition, the Supreme Court said that the elections were not held in accordance with the law and that there were serious irregularities and criminalities conducted. So, if you limit the access to courts by this kind of legislation, it takes away people‘s rights under the Bill of Rights. They have the right to go to court, the right to be heard and the right to get justice. Equally important, I would like the Senator for Narok County to know that the Constitution, 2010, says that access to justice shall not be hampered or hindered by undue technicalities. You can walk to court and say you have suffered an injustice and the court cannot deny you opportunity from being heard simply because your signature is not found on a form. They must hear you and the evidence you give is what will determine the ultimate decision of the court. Sen. Olekina should invite some of us, who are lawyers, to sit with him and look through this Bill. The intention is good but its execution is not equally good and it can easily create a situation where we will have more injustice on candidates. In every election, the candidate is always the weaker person because the decision is not theirs but the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you may be too young to remember the discredited"
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