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    "id": 1482369,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Raso",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. There was a spat between the Pope and Napoleon in 1800. Napoleon asked, “Pope, how many divisions do you have?” Then the Pope replied “I have the Catholic Church”. During the interview yesterday, the Deputy President came up strongly to almost insinuate that this Parliament is a bunch of clowns. So many things guide this Parliament. The very important instrument this Parliament wields is this thing called the Constitution. It is the supreme law of the land. National unity is one of the reasons the Deputy President must be impeached. He came onto a public stage to talk about an issue that eventually would discriminate the minorities: One man, one vote, one shilling. That is important in the way he says it. In a sense, the regions that are behind, discriminated and marginalised will continue to be behind. Article 56(a)(1) talks about minority groups, why they must be in the Government, and represented. This country must move forward. It must move as one nation and one people. We are of different nationalities. It is the Deputy President who stood in a public place to say that the problem of this country is the Somalis. The Somalis are part and parcel of this nation. They have made great contributions to this country. They cannot be excluded for anything. The second issue why the Deputy President must and has to leave that office is on national security. He is privy to the National Security Council meetings. He attends them and he can chair sometimes. Coming out to divulge that information to the public on a need-to- know basis means he has crossed the red line. The third issue is related to Article 147. The Deputy President is the principal assistant to the President. He or she is delegated to be the President sometimes when the president is away. This happened in the 11th Parliament when Uhuru Kenyatta was attending the International Criminal Court (ICC). He wrote down that the then Deputy President Ruto would act on his behalf. It can happen even this time. If we have a Deputy President already determined to discriminate parts of the country, how do we trust him with power? Lastly, he is not assisting or supporting the President. The Finance Bill of 2024/2025 was thrown out by Parliament and the people. It is not that the people and Parliament did not want it. He never supported it. He kept on campaigning against the Finance Bill. For those reasons, I think the Deputy President must be impeached. Thank you. 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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