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    "id": 11025,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Olago actually wanted to know where this new vocabulary “step aside” has come from. This is new vocabulary in our parlance. “Stepping aside”, basically, means that you withdraw yourself from your position to enable investigations to be carried out without your interference. In other words, you forestall being suspended or being interdicted and so on by voluntarily agreeing to step aside, so that investigations can be carried out. In this specific case, hon. Wetangula did not wait for a vote to be taken in the House here. He voluntarily agreed to step aside, so that those who were carrying out investigations could do so without his interfering in investigations. So, he stepped aside and did not go back to the Ministry for all the ten months. He allowed the officers who were carrying out investigations to interrogate documents, files and so on without his interference. We are saying that under our own guidelines, it is supposed to be a maximum of two months, but he stayed out there for ten good months and the interim report has not implicated him at all. So, stepping aside is a voluntary action taken by an officer without prompting by the Government or any other authority."
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