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    "id": 1484025,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Jeremiah Nyegenye",
    "speaker_title": "Ground 8: Serious Reasons to believe that His Excellency Rigathi GachaguaCommitted Crimes under Section 132 of the Penal Code and Section 29 of theLeadership and Integrity Act The Clerk of the Senate",
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    "content": " His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua has continuously misled members of the public through false, malicious, divisive and inciteful remarks that are contrary to the provisions of Section 132 of the Penal Code and Section 29 of the Leadership and Integrity Act. (a) To illustrate, sometime in January, 2024, His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua made a sensational, but false accusation that Hon. Justice Esther Maina, Judge of the High Court of Kenya, had engaged in corruption. He publicly said he would present a petition for the removal of the said judge (which he has not done to date), leading to the inevitable conclusion that he knew his allegations were false. (b) On or about 26th June, 2024, His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua recklessly and unmindful of the high calling and dignified status of the Office of the Deputy President of the Republic and his membership to the National Security Council, both being positions that require one to be a discrete and tempered leader, especially during moments of national crisis, addressed Kenyans on live television in Mombasa County and publicly made sensational statements against the National Intelligence Service (an essential national security organ), its Director General and officers. The following is an excerpt of part of his speech: “The Director General of the National Intelligence Service, Noordin Haji, was a junior officer in the National Intelligence Service before he was appointed as DPP. When he was appointed to the office of the Director General, because of his inferiority complex, he chased away all the people who were senior to him when he was in the Service, therefore, crippling the capacity of that service and making it dysfunctional. Three Directors were chased away and re-assigned to desk jobs in Ministries across Government. Thirteen Assistant Directors, men and women with proven track record of intelligence collection and analysis, were removed from the National Intelligence Service, leaving a shell under a clueless Director General who has no capacity to run the organization. That is why the security sector was caught off guard by the intensity, the anger of the Kenyan people, the agitation of the Kenyan people, the resilience of the Kenyan people.” Your Excellency Rigathi Gachagua, how do you plead to Ground 8, guilty or not guilty?"
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