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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "In the fifth ground, we have alleged that the Deputy President has breached Articles 3(1) and 148(5)(a) of the Constitution. Article 3(1) of the Constitution states that every person has an obligation to respect, uphold and defend this Constitution. Article 148(5) of the Constitution is about the oath or affirmation of allegiance that the Deputy President took on assumption of office. He swore to protect and uphold the Constitution. I have demonstrated in all the particular incidences above that he has not lived up to the calling in the Oath of Office. Therefore, I call on this House to find that the Deputy President does not uphold the Constitution and runs averse to his Oath of Office, in terms of his conduct, as highlighted in the allegations that I have already proven. For that reason, the fifth ground is proven. The sixth ground is on the breach of the National Cohesion and Integration Act, particularly Sections 13(1)(a) and 62. There is enough evidence to prove it. Section 13 of the Act says that it is an offence for any person to use threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour where he intends to stir up feelings of ethnic contempt, hostility, violence or discrimination. Section 62 of the Act provides that a person commits an offence when he or she makes statements that are intended or likely to stir feelings of ethnic contempt, hatred, hostility, violence or discrimination. Hon. Speaker, in proving the first ground in terms of the violation of the Constitution or national unity, I provided evidence that the Deputy President has been using the shareholder language or terming the Government of Kenya as a company. As much as those words offend the Constitution, similarly, they offend the National Cohesion and Integration Act. By the same evidence, I invite Members to find that the Deputy President has breached those provisions of the law."
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