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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rigathi Gachagua",
    "speaker_title": "His Excellency the Deputy President",
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    "content": "autonomy of the office of the deputy president, which I have been insisting on because it is part of the coalition agreement. The ANC would be allocated the position of the Prime Cabinet Secretary, which has happened. Ford Kenya would be allocated the position of the Speaker of the National Assembly, and that is why Hon. Moses Masika Wetang’ula sits here today. In accordance with Article 2 of the power-sharing agreement, ANC and Ford Kenya would have a 30 per cent share (note that “share” is the word) of the national government positions. This drives my utterances about shareholding. It is embedded in all these agreements that are attached here for you to read. I heard this morning an Hon. Member saying that the Deputy President said that the people of Ukambani will not get resources because they did not vote for the Kenya Kwanza Government. That is not true. The Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya does not allocate resources. Resources for the development of the Republic of Kenya are appropriated by the National Assembly of Kenya, where I am today. The Deputy President will help the President to oversee the implementation of funds that are allocated and appropriated by the National Assembly. It is, therefore, not possible that the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya has the capacity to deny any part of Kenya resources because of the way they voted. The decisions on how resources are allocated for the development of the Republic of Kenya are made here by the Hon. Members. If your area has no development, please, do not impeach the Deputy President, and do not accuse him of not giving you resources. You are in this House to make sure that the area where you come from is allocated appropriate resources because that is your job. The agreements are attached. Therefore, I do not want to go into them. Let me say that my speeches on the shareholder issue were informed by the foresaid power-sharing covenants which are founded on law, having been deposited with the Registrar of Political Parties and lessons learned from the well-known disputed 2002 National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) power-sharing agreement. Further, power-sharing agreements are a feature of government formation in all democracies in the world that provide for formations. My pronouncements on the issue properly understood, are not only anchored in law, but entirely harmless and incapable of being construed as a basis for ethnic animosity, a danger to national cohesion, or a threat to national unity. On the contrary, coalition building has been one of the most important innovations since the disputed 2007 elections in ensuring stability, equitable sharing of political power, national cohesion and fostering of national unity. Indeed, the Kenya Kwanza Alliance's main opponent in the 2022 General Election, Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party, was a political party consisting of 25 political parties who also executed a power-sharing agreement based on shares. I am also aware that the Jubilee Coalition executed a 50/50 power-sharing agreement between The National Alliance (TNA) Party and United Republican Party (URP) for the 2013 General Election. I have thus not violated Sections 13(1)(A) and 62 of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission Act, nor has that Commission summoned me to explain any of my comments and how it affects cohesion. However, notwithstanding the said power-sharing agreements, upon election as Deputy President, I went out of my way, as required by the Constitution of Kenya, to serve all Kenyans regardless of their political preferences during the election or ethnic origin. I now produce the following video clip showing some of my speeches all over the country marked as RG Video7"
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