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    "id": 1480547,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "Hon. Rigathi Gachagua has committed impeachable offences as provided for in Articles 150(1) and (2) of the Constitution. He has grossly violated the Constitution and has committed crimes under national and international law, as has been ably demonstrated by the Mover of the Motion. The evidence provided by the Mover of the Motion is enough to impeach the Deputy President, and he must stand impeached by the end of today. Hon. Speaker, Article 131(e) of the Constitution states: “131(1) The President – (e) is a symbol of national unity.” Article 147(1) of the Constitution states: “147(1) The Deputy President shall be the principal assistant of the President and shall deputise for the President in the execution of the President’s functions.” For this to happen, there must be harmony at the top, in spite of how they were elected into office. His shareholding utterances, which we saw on television and as demonstrated by the Mover, ensure that there is no harmony within the presidency. The Deputy President wants to balkanise this country like in George Orwell's Animal Farm, that there are people who are more equal than others. As Parliament, we must refuse to buy into the theories of the Deputy President. The Deputy President wants to be a tribal king of the murima, ready to break the country and sow seeds of disunity for his own political gain. By the end of today, we must not have a Deputy President who wants to balkanise this country. Hon. Speaker, the Office of the Deputy President is a high office, as established under Article 130 of the Constitution. The authority of his Office must be exercised within the provisions of Article 10(2) of the Constitution, which anchors the principle of national unity. The holder of this Office must exercise this Article at the highest possible level. As Deputy President, he must be beyond reproach. Like Caesar's wife, he must be above any form of suspicion and must be beyond reproach. But the utterances and actions of the Deputy President bring his reputation into disrepute because he has sown seeds of disunity and has taken a trajectory that is likely to balkanise this country. For that, we cannot continue to have a Deputy President who cannot uphold the Oath of his Office, therefore, Rigathi Gachagua must go. Hon. Speaker, if you look at the story of Pompeia, the wife of Julius Caesar, you realise that although she had been accused of sacrilege but was later acquitted by the courts, Julius Caesar actually divorced her, not because of what she had been accused of, but because there was suspicion that she could have done something like that. As a House of Parliament, we have the authority and right to say that this man has brought himself into disrepute. He has gone low and portrayed himself as a man who cannot be trusted with the position of a Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya. He provides himself as a man who cannot be trusted with the position of a Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya. Therefore, Hon. Rigathi Gachagua, must go."
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