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    "id": 1486141,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1486141/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Eckomas Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "The National Security Council (NSC) created under Article 240 of the Constitution. The Deputy President has a forum, unlike all other ordinary citizens, Senators included. We can complain out there because we do not have an official institutional forum. The Deputy President has a forum where he can raise his concerns. Two, this was a time of monumental crisis in the Republic of Kenya. The statements were sensational and would have made Kenyans to believe that our security organs are not functional. They would have easily led to citizens running amok, the Republic getting torn apart and our national fabric getting destroyed completely. Even more importantly, I heard learned Counsel Ongoya refer you to your oath of office. I would wish that he also refers his client to the oath of due execution of office that he did swear. In the oath of due execution of office that the Deputy President took on ascension of office, it states as follows. “That I will not directly or indirectly reveal such matters as shall come to my knowledge in the discharge of my duties and committed to my secrecy.” The emphasis is on “secrecy.” He has said in the clip that we have played that officers of the National Police Service (NPS) have told him in confidence that they had not received advance intelligence reports. That is what was contemplated by this oath of due execution of office. This is what Senior Counsel Orengo called “addressing fears”, that if a matter is committed to you as a state officer in secrecy, it must remain in secrecy. If you take it to a public press conference, then you have gone against your oath of office. That is an impeachable offence."
}