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    "id": 1482273,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Saney",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I want to bring out three assertions which are highly distorted, emanating from His Excellency the Deputy President, Hon. Gachagua. One is that he is a co-president. In every general election, six ballot papers are issued to voters. Of the six, one is for the presidency. All Kenyans voted for His Excellency President William Samoei Ruto. I did not vote for Gachagua. There is no Kenyan who voted for Gachagua to any position other than escorting the President to State House. He was not elected. Therefore, the claim that he garnered 7.2 million votes is unfounded, non-factual and a mere hallucination. He is not a co-president. He is merely an assistant to the President. The second thing is that he always talks of having acquired paramilitary training. He is supposed to be a symbol of harmony and unity, not to intimidate the citizenry by telling them that he is military trained. That in itself bespeaks volumes on what his character is. One other thing is that yesterday he made disparaging remarks on the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Speaker of the Senate. The fact that his impeachment is coming in front of this House today and thereafter proceeding to the Senate, it was not befitting of him to make disparaging and derogatory remarks on our Speaker and the Speaker of the Senate. On the impeachment Motion, the threshold stipulated under Article 150 of the Constitution has fully been met in impeaching Deputy President Gachagua. His loyalty to the President is questionable. Whenever the President goes out of the country, the Deputy President is never seen seeing him off. Whenever the President comes back to the country, the second principal is always not available to receive the President. He gives press releases that contradict the President. He talks too much, giving epithets that demean and project the President as a liar on several occasions. Yesterday, all Kenyans heard him say that it is His Excellency President Ruto who taught him how to respond to civil servants and address intelligence officers like Noordin Haji and the DCI Director, Amin. That in itself depicts a lack of respect for the Presidency. It is clear in our Constitution that he is the second in command, as espoused in Article 147(3) as read together with Article 134. He has failed in this. He has also shown massive erosion of the position of the Executive by not being the assistant and showing the unity expected of him. The Deputy President has on several occasions pronounced himself on matters of discriminating against Kenyans, saying that he got his share of Cabinet Secretaries for his The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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