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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "expect to call that commissioner. If you appoint a Kikuyu as a commissioner, you expect to call him and ask him whether he is taking care of the tribe. Fortunately, Mr. Chebukati is not a Kikuyu or Kalenjin. Imagine that you have a candidate who is Kamba, and the person who is qualified as the Chairperson of the IEBC is Kamba; do you think this country will accept the results? Of course not, because we do not trust anything. Even if we put Archbishop Njue in that position, at some point, we will look at him and think of him as a Kikuyu. I wonder why we go to church, yet we are such a mess. I have proposed that these forms are not the smallest portion of the problem in our elections. We are the problem. We want to cheat. Political parties want to cheat in nominations because they want to put the people they prefer and remove the people that they do not want. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we proposed a law here on the independent candidate and other candidates of political parties. However, the IEBC came up with amendments that the Jubilee Party supported. The irony of it is that the Jubilee Party members were the biggest victims of election rigging in the nominations. The majority of people who became independent candidates are from the Jubilee Party, yet they had amended that law and mutilated it. We made an amendment on the ballot papers and said that that they should be procured eight months to the elections. However, Mr. Chiloba amended the time to four months and our colleagues supported him. I sometimes wonder whether we switch off our memories. We, as leaders, are victims of our own deceit. Sen. Orengo and I spent a lot of time at the Windsor Golf Hotel & Country Club, and worked on the Electronic Management Law System. The intention was that if the results are announced, the form should be scanned and transmitted as a PDF document. However, Mr. Chiloba and his team did not do so. Instead, they started transmitting numbers. As a result, the server was invaded severally. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, people do not know why the Supreme Court annulled the presidential election. They looked at the number of times that people logged into the server and it was impossible to comprehend why people logged in so many times. The minute you key in 10, you discover it is 100. You find that Mr. Chebukati has logged in severally. Even Mr. Msando had logged in, yet he was already dead at the time. There was no other option apart from nullifying that election. The NASA Coalition boycotted the repeat election, but we never solved the problem. We just postponed this problem to 2022. I am afraid that this will not solve it. Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri is right. Unfortunately, we have participated in election petitions since 2003. In a proper system, you do not require a candidate to sign any form. Article 86 of the Constitution states that there should be a simple, verifiable and accountable system of voting. The machine that you use to register and vote should be used to transmit the numbers for tallying. If 86 people walked to a polling station and you transmit 87, the machine is supposed to say no. This becomes secondary evidence; the paper. The primary evidence is the transmission. Come the second Presidential election in October, what do our colleagues on the majority side do? They amended the law to say that this form – the one that Sen. Olekina is proposing to amend – is not the primary data. The document that you have The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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