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    "id": 1093471,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1093471/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "Finally, I want to talk about what I think is going wrong in this country and it cannot be resolved until we use the Constitution in the way it was meant to work. All those who were appointed as public officers are supposed to work in accordance to the Constitution whether they were elected or not elected. There is a narrative going on out there that the Vice President has been ignored and he is not allowed to do his work. That is a fallacy. The primary responsibilities of a vice president are spelt-out in the Constitution. He is a member of the Cabinet. He attends the cabinet meetings without any problem. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. or Sen. Olekina do not sit in that Cabinet and neither do you Madam Temporary Speaker. It is an honour and a privilege to sit in that cabinet. It is difficult for common men like us to go to State House but the Vice President attends the Cabinet meeting every week and he attends the meetings. That would be the best place for him to raise the bottom up economic circus. Jubilee Government has one year to continue to deliver. There are other duties that are donated to the vice president of Kenya by Kenyans under the Constitution. There is a very important organ in this country called the National Security Council. We only have 11 people in this Republic who sit in that council and the"
}