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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, Members are now excited. They are not happy with the response that the Deputy President has given. They want to vote and go home. I know what they are doing. However, let us prosecute the matter. We have to respond to the issues he has brought to the House. Political parties are not equal to regional and ethnic conglomerations that the Deputy President has been advocating for in the last two years. I want to give him a good example of a party like the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). The other day, it proposed six experts under the broad-based government. Where did the experts come from? One was from the coast. Beatrice Askul is from Turkana, Oparanya is from Western and the Attorney-General is from Kisumu. When he talked about 30 per cent for FORD Kenya and 30 per cent for ANC, he thought those positions were given to Luhyas as a community. FORD Kenya is a national party. Those positions belong to members of FORD Kenya who are in Mombasa, Migori, Kakamega, Bungoma and Eldoret. FORD Kenya has membership in the whole country. So, he cannot controvert that ground by saying that he was talking about power sharing within the Kenya Kwanza Coalition. No! He was talking about ethnic groups. He said this Government was formed by two ethnic groups and that is how they are going to share power. So, that ground stands. The Deputy President is impeachable on that ground. The other issue that I want to respond to that he raised is the national security. He said that the National Intelligence Service can be called out whenever they are out of order. The Deputy President sits in the National Security Council. He does not need to call out any Government organ in the streets like people who do their things in the streets. He is a man who sits in every governance organ of this country. All governing organs are overseen by the 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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