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    "content": "of the same institution, the Presidency. Ruto goes quietly and comes back, but we do not talk about it. However, what are we seeing here? We are seeing very unhelpful and untenable funfair. When the President said that he was handing over power to his Deputy, what power was he handing over? The Constitution is very clear. In his absence, the Deputy President is the President until he comes back. That is why we moved away from a Vice President to a Deputy President. They are elected on the same ticket and exercise the same powers, except that there is a President and his Deputy. In his absence, the Deputy President acts as the President. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the gimmick of handing over power, you do not hand over power to the Deputy President on the Floor of Parliament. Show me where it is in the Constitution. You do not hand over power to the Deputy President by a pronouncement. There are instruments of power that we know. If you want to hand over power, those instruments are known. Was William Ruto given the sword, the Constitution and all the instruments that former President Kibaki gave to President Uhuru Kenyatta as he handed over power? The answer is no. This was simply a pronouncement of what the Constitution already says that when the President is away, the Deputy President acts as the President. He acted and I did not even notice that the President was not in the country. I did not even notice that Mr. Ruto was acting as the President because there was no opportunity for him to act on anything."
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