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    "id": 1484031,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1484031/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Jeremiah Nyegenye",
    "speaker_title": "10. Gross misconduct, that is, Insubordination The Clerk of the Senate",
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    "content": " As stated in Ground 9, the phrase gross misconduct generally refers to behavior that is very unpleasant, disgusting, very rude. This is from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Therefore, open or public insubordination of the President, who is the head of State and Government under our constitutional framework, is gross misconduct. As stated in the preceding parts, Article 147(1) of the Constitution designates the Deputy President as a principal assistant of the President, who shall deputize for the President in the execution of the President's functions. His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua has persistently undermined, demeaned, and committed insubordination instead of assisting the President in executing the state executive mandate. Instead, he has opted to run a smear campaign against the Presidency for political expediency. Further, whereas Article 147(2) of the Constitution requires the Deputy President to perform the functions conferred by the Constitution and any other functions that the President may assign, His Excellency, Rigathi Gachagua, is openly sabotaging the state's efforts in agriculture, including the coffee, tea, sugar, and milk sectors, which the President tasked him to oversee. To illustrate- (a)His Excellency, Rigathi Gachagua, has connived with cartels in the tea sector to block the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) from implementing guaranteed minimum returns that would benefit smallholder tea farmers. (b)His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua has influenced his family members, allies, associates and proxies to take control of a local cooperative society - name withheld - in Mathira, which they are financially hemorrhaging. Your Excellency, Rigathi Gachagua, how do you plead to Ground 10; guilty or not guilty?"
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