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"speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": "In terms of constituencies, in Homa Bay Town Constituency, 1,080 Kenyans whom I represent said the Deputy President should be impeached. That constitutes 89.81 per cent of the population of the people of Homa Bay who were duly notified. A total of 54 Kenyans in Homa Bay Town Constituency, constituting five per cent, said the Deputy President should not be impeached. A total of 56 per cent said other things, including kufa makanga, kufa dereva . Let me also clarify this other issue. The courts have persistently and consistently said that public participation must be meaningful. On this one, you made it so open at the county headquarters involving all constituencies, and then all constituency offices remained open on that day, and you notified the public following that court order. There is nothing much for us to continue debating here. If public participation is to be meaningful, then Kenyans have spoken. And as their representatives, we can only give meaning to what they said during public participation by securing what they have said which is that the Deputy President should be impeached. This Constitution has been termed a living document. If you look at Ground No.1, people are taking it lightly but the idea of the unity of our nation has been the one thing which has been disturbing the people of Kenya in terms of being a nation for a very long time. Allow me to read the preamble of the Constitution. It says: “We, the people of Kenya- PROUD of our ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, and determined to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign nation.” When Kenyans were making this Constitution, they identified the need for unity of one people as one thing they had to deal with. I request Members to look at Article 4(2) of the Constitution. It says: “The Republic of Kenya shall be a multi-party democratic state founded on the national values and principles of governance under Article 10” People have said so many things about this Constitution, but let me say today, before this House, that if this Constitution has a spirit and soul, then you can only find it in Article 10 of the Constitution. At Article 10(2) of the Constitution, the national values which were identified by the people of Kenya during Constitution making as the things which Kenya needs to address are the following: patriotism, national unity, sharing and devolution of power, the rule of law, democracy and participation of the people, human dignity, equity, social justice, inclusiveness, equality, human rights, non-discrimination and protection of the marginalised. At the very heart of a nation is equal ownership and equal sharing in the resources of the nation. It cannot therefore be that a State officer at the level of the Deputy President sings to other Kenyans how they are shareholders and others do not belong to this country. It saddens me that having given him the opportunity, the Deputy President did not proffer a defence or offer an apology. He said other people are also doing it. An impeachment Motion proceeds in personam . It proceeds against a specific person. You may say kufa dereva, kufa makanga ."
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