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"content": "Clearly, he admitted that the issue of shareholding in Kenya was live, and he was part and parcel of it. Therefore, Kenyans were shareholders. He admitted in the House and also in the press in the country that he believed the President was behind this Motion. He also admitted that he had gone against the principle of collective responsibility on the basis that the Cabinet had made unconstitutional decisions, which decisions he had to disobey. He also dismissed this Parliament as a theatre of the absurd and said he did not expect much from it. The question is this and that, hon. Senators, you have to grapple with; if the Deputy President was to be saved by this House, with whom would he work? He would not work with the Kenyans who he has antagonised with his shareholding notion that he has spread across the country. Number two, he would have difficulty serving with his boss, whom he has accused of being behind this Motion. He would not actually work with the Cabinet, where he is responsible for everything that is done in the Cabinet, and the sub-cabinet committees brought together by the principle of collective responsibility. He would not be able to work with this Parliament, which he has called a theatre of the absurd. With whom would he work? This is the question you have to ask yourselves. What we have before us today is like a marriage. I have to draw that analogy because, actually, the position occupied by the subject of that discussion and the Motion, the Hon. Rigathi Gachagua, is now untenable. He cannot hold that position because his position is irretrievable. He cannot work with any of the organs and bodies he is supposed to work with. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the position being irretrievable, then it means he actually has to be impeached and I implore you to do so. Where a marriage is irretrievably broken, you cannot apply any law. The marriage is gone. Whatever law you try to apply does not matter. For the Deputy President today, we cannot apply any measure of legalese because this is not likely to assist us in any way. The position remains. This is a political process. These political offices are held. Therefore, they are irretrievably broken. As a pen-off, hon. Senators, I will refer you to a biblical book in the Old Testament; the Book of Jonah, Chapter One. When the Senators retire, they can actually look at that, the entire Chapter. What happened here when Jonah disobeyed the command from his superior and that was the deity? He actually had to flee. When he fled, he took a ship to a different city, not where he had been commanded to go. What remained was on the journey, the waters were faced with tempest, and eventually, the tempest had to be calmed by tossing Jonah out of the ship. The ship here is the Presidency. The ocean is actually Kenya. Jonah is the insubordinate Deputy President who cannot work with the entire Government and the country and whose position today he holds is untenable. With those remarks, I urge you, hon. Senators, to uphold this Motion, and to the best of my belief and conviction, not only Ground 11, which I have submitted; the rest of the grounds have been proved. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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