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    "id": 492478,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/492478/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "With regard to handing of power to the Deputy President, I asked myself what alternative the President had. Once the President decided to appear before the ICC, he had to surrender his powers. This is because the Constitution is clear that any time the President is absent from this country, the Deputy President acts. Once he appeared in the ICC he was going to be an ordinary person, whether he liked it or not. The President was just being careful and a politician by trying to pretend that he was removing himself from being the President and appearing there as an ordinary person. There is even a matter of constitutionality here. The President is not supposed to hand over power when he is still in the country. The President should have left this country as President. There is no provision in law which allows the President to hand over power when he is in Kenya. That is something that needs to be debated. May I also add that by purporting to put a Gazette Notice to make an appointment which the Constitution has already done, the President is subordinate to the Constitution! Therefore, that Gazette Notice is null and void, unconstitutional and a waste of taxpayers’ money. Listening to some of the speakers from the Jubilee side, I want to advise them not to be emotional about this matter. If our President is not guilty, he will be found not guilty. Hon. Cecily Mbarire who used to be a very strong advocate in the civil society movement and which I also participated in needs to remember that there are over 1,000 Kenyans who lost their lives in this country. You are in power as Jubilee. Look for the people who killed these people and hold them to account. Do not start criticizing ICC and yet you have no solution to this problem. What would I tell Mr. Ndege, for example, who lost his two wives and six children? These people are crying for justice! As you defend your leaders---"
}