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    "id": 492553,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "I looked back when His Excellency the President came back and I was holding my breath for the worst not to happen. I do not know where the country would have been if the possibilities I contemplated at the time were ever to happen. Let our security advisors around the Presidency know that they are now the President and the Deputy President of the country, whether we voted for them or not and their safety is of utmost importance. I was surprised when the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Interior and Co- ordination of National Government sent a letter which was leaked even to the social media and the President and the Deputy President are seen riding in the same limousine. It surprised people as to where the President and the Deputy would be and the crowd was there. It is something abominable. It is something in good governance; we must not accept it at any other time. There is a big message the President struggled to send, which I see most Kenyans, the media and everybody have lost, and so have my colleagues here. The President did well to attempt to draw a line between the person and the office; between the person of Uhuru Kenyatta and the Office of the President of the Republic of Kenya. Whether self serving or not, that is a good governance ideal that we ought to have chaperoned more than talking about these other issues. As leaders who accompany our leaders, let us be reminded always that we have a whole Chapter of the Constitution dealing with issues of integrity and leadership. One of the obligations is that wherever you are, conduct yourself in a manner that upholds the integrity of your office. Those Members of Parliament, if indeed, they were Members of Parliament--- I am not talking of the others, but the ones I saw rolling themselves at the doorsteps of The Hague Court, did not uphold the integrity of our office. We wish the President well; we wish the victims well and we hope justice will be done. Thank you."
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