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"speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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"content": "The second ground, under removal by way of impeachment, is where there are serious reasons to believe that the Deputy President has committed a crime under national or international law. This morning, Senior Counsel, Hon. Otiende Amollo went to great lengths to explain what such serious reasons are. They are when you believe that the Deputy President has committed a crime under national or international law. Behind the veneer of humility that we have seen here this evening and behind the veneer of humility that Kenyans saw on national television on Sunday, pretending to apologise, is a dark face of violence. It is a dark face that is a danger to our nationhood; a great danger to the unity of our Republic and a danger to the cohesive existence of our nation, as we see it today. I will speak on the first ground on the remark of “ Serikali ni kampuni”. It pains me – not just as the Leader of the Majority Party, but as a Member of Parliament of Kikuyu Constituency and a son of the mountain, where I come from – that today, the community I come from is being depicted as an entitled and privileged one. We are a community that has love for other Kenyans and other communities in our Republic; we are known for our hard work and resilience, not for entitlement; we are a community that is peace-loving and believes in the unity of one indivisible Republic of Kenya. Hon. Rigathi Gachagua does not believe in an indivisible country. He believes in parochial, selfish, regional, and sectarian interests. For that reason, we ought and should impeach Hon. Rigathi Gachagua. We need to remind ourselves that we are honourable Members of Parliament who took an oath of office and swore in the name of the Almighty God that we would obey, respect, uphold, protect and defend the Constitution of Kenya. Today, what we are being asked to do is recall the words of the oath of office that we all took, either with the Holy Bible or the Holy Quran, in our right hands. We need to decide whether we will stand up today to be counted as protecting and defending this Constitution by sending home one, Hon. Rigathi Gachagua, a man who has grossly violated our Constitution. Hon. Speaker, I rise to the occasion today to do what is right and reaffirm the oath that I took with the Bible in my right hand. That is to obey, defend and protect this Constitution that we all sought to defend. I call upon all Hon. Members to defend the Constitution. Kenyans around the country watched in disbelief as Hon. Rigathi Gachagua went to great lengths… Hon. Otiende Amollo told us this morning that if you have to spend two hours on national television to defend corruption and tell the world how you are not corrupt, then you are definitely corrupt! The Deputy President together with his legal team submitted their defence late this afternoon at 4.00 p.m., imagining that we will not have the time to go through this voluminous document. If you go through what he said in regard to the Olive Garden Limited, he claimed that this hotel was sold by executors to a third party. If you peruse the documents, the third party he said bought this hotel… Allow me first to tell you that the joint executors of the will of the late Governor Nderitu Gachagua were Rigathi Gachagua, Advocate Njoroge Regeru and Mr. Mwai Mathenge, who was his great friend. If you read the report filed in court by the joint will executors on 27th June 2024, it states that they will make decisions independently and without influence from any beneficiary, except for one who is both a beneficiary and executor. A joint will executor does not have the same attributes and mandate as a trustee, where beneficiaries play a part assisting in decision-making. What this document filed in court means is that Rigathi Gachagua as a joint will executor was also a beneficiary and purchaser for value of the estate of his late brother. Olive Garden Limited is said to have been sold to a gentleman known to many of us. Hon. Gichimu Githinji, the Member for Gichugu will tell you that the gentleman listed here as the purchaser for value of Olive Garden Limited, Mr Peterson Njomo Muchira was a candidate in Gichugu Constituency. He is a direct proxy of one Rigathi Geoffrey Gachagua. 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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