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    "id": 1489044,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1489044/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "agonized over what to do with an agreement that ousts the mandate of constitutional bodies. For instance, you are told that in the agreement, positions that essentially are supposed to be available to all Kenyans through advertisement by the Public Service Commission (PSC), like permanent secretaries, have already been dished out. What am I supposed to do with a contract that ousts the mandate of the PSC, a constitutional body? What am I supposed to do with a contract that ousts the mandate of this House, for instance, to vote for the person who sits in the chair that you sit in? If memory serves me right, Members who are not signatories to the coalition agreement of Kenya Kwanza, in fact, participated in voting for you to become the Speaker. Many of them were Members of my political party, ODM although, of course, I was not one of them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a position in law about what to do with illegal and unconscionable contracts. I feel that the Deputy President wasted an opportunity to give clarification on his pronouncements that he chose to hide behind a contract that I consider unconstitutional, something that I have agonized over. I remember a discussion about what is the strongholds of Amani National Coalition (ANC) and FORD-K and somebody said that it is Western Kenya. As the Secretary General (SG) of ODM, I know for a fact that Busia is an ODM county. In fact, if you look at the statistics at the Register of Political Parties, the county with the highest membership in ODM is not Homa Bay or Siaya, but Busia County. The question I am being asked by my Members from Busia is if a member of ODM who resides in Busia wanted to be a permanent secretary, does he take his application to the local FORD-K office so to access the 30 per cent for Western Kenya? That is the agony that people are going through. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was also the conversation around the public attacks on a judge. As a lawyer, an advocate of the High Court sworn to defend the Constitution, I agonize over what I am supposed to do with public attacks on judicial officers, people that I appear before seeking justice for my clients. We also have a discussion around attacks on intelligence institutions in our country and the Director General of the Intelligence. It was argued here that, in fact, as a member of the National Security Council, the Deputy President has a forum to bring---"
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