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    "id": 1484028,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Jeremiah Nyegenye",
    "speaker_title": "PART C: GROSS MISCONDUCT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 150(1)(b)(iii) OFTHE CONSTUTIONGround 9: Gross Misconduct (Public Attacks on the National Intelligence Serviceand its officers) The Clerk of the Senate",
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    "content": " The phrase “gross misconduct” generally refers to behavior that is “very unpleasant, disgusting or very rude.” This is from the Oxford Advanced learner’s dictionary. Therefore, public attacks against an essential national security organ in circumstances that require one to be discreet and tempered constitute gross misconduct. On or around 26th June, 2024, His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua, the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya, unmindful of the high calling and dignified status of the office of the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya and his membership to the National Security Council, both being positions that require a leader to be discreet and tempered, especially during moments of national crisis, addressed Kenyans on live television in Mombasa County and made a scathing attack on the National Intelligence Service, an essential national security organ. His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua extended extremely reckless personal attacks to the Director General of the institution. With the unprecedented acts, His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua acted in a manner that is incompatible with the high calling and dignified status of the office of the Deputy President and member of the Cabinet and the National Security Council. The attacks against the National Intelligence Service and its Director General, constitute gross misconduct and an impeachable offence to the extent that- (a) They are incompatible with the high calling and dignified status of the Office of the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya. (b)They undermine national security from both internal and external points of view. (c)They are incompatible with the effective discharge of the delicate and sensitive mandate of the National Intelligence Service (NIS). (d)They had the potential, given the circumstances prevailing in the country at the time, to significantly diminish public confidence in their viability of the Kenyan state and its ability to protect the lives and properties of its citizens. (e)They go against the constitutionally prescribed oath of allegiance of the office of the Deputy President under Article 148(5)(a) of the Constitution, which requires the Deputy President to obey, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and all other laws. Your Excellency, how do you plead to Ground 9; guilty or not guilty?"
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