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    "id": 1489063,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Let me begin again by saying I want to disabuse this notion that an impeachment process is an attack of a region; it is not. It is a constitutional process that this House has been given the task to be able to hold public officers accountable. Today, we are discussing the impeachment of a Deputy President. Tomorrow, we might be discussing the impeachment of a President. We have constantly debated impeachment of governors here. I have never heard, at one given time, people come up and say we are targeting a particular community . We are not. We have been entertained this afternoon, or the last two days, with the defence alleging that the shareholding utterances made by the Deputy President were in reference to the shareholding of a coalition agreement. It was demonstrated here that the Kenya Kwanza Coalition agreed upon how they can share different positions in Government. In fact, I thought they would say that the Speaker of this House was also negotiated. I believe when the Speaker of this House was proposed to be voted for, he was voted for by all the Senators. Never have I seen the Speaker giving preference to the people of the coastal region. So, I am not convinced by the defence that the shareholding being uttered by the Deputy President, is based on a coalition agreement. The defence attempted to respond to the allegation on Ground 8, whereby they said that the utterances of the Deputy President violate Section 132 of the Penal Code. It 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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