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    "id": 378196,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/378196/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2884,
        "legal_name": "Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I just want to inform the women Representative for Homa Bay County - she represents me and she is the only other Member that I voted for - that Article 236 of the Constitution talks about protection of public officers. It says that:- “236. A public officer shall not be— ( b ) dismissed, removed from office, demoted in rank or otherwise subjected to disciplinary action without due process of law”. From the Statement of the Leader of Majority Party, talking about someone being given three months notice, this must follow the due process of the law. If you want to remove anyone from office, whether by giving him three months or ten months notice, it must be for some good reasons which can be explained to that officer. The Cabinet Secretary has no powers just to wake up one morning and give notice. There must be a reason. So, when hon. Wanga says that the Statement is lacking in flesh, it is truly lacking in flesh. He is not telling us why Mr. Tom Odongo had to be removed from that important office, unless it had something to do with ethnicity. A new Government came into place and wants to place their people in key parastatals, maybe with an intention to loot. We know about the Kenya Pipeline."
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