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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have never known that the Sen. Njoroge speaks for the nation for him to say that I am misleading the nation. I do not know which nation he is talking about. However, be that as it may, you know as a good lawyer yourself that selective reading of the law leads to confusion. He has read Article 147 (1), but he has carefully omitted to read Article 147(3) which says:- “Subject to Article 134, when the President is absent or is temporarily incapacitated, and during any other period that he President decides, the Deputy President shall act as the President” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that does not have to be pronounced. The pronouncement that I am talking about on the Floor of the National Assembly was just, but a political gimmick; just to hoodwink people because as soon as the President leaves jurisdiction, the Deputy President becomes the Acting President until the President returns. However, if he wanted to hand over the instruments of power; everybody here is old enough to remember President Nelson Mandela. When President Mandela wanted to hand over power to somebody as he left the country for about two weeks, he did not even pick his Deputy who was then Thabo Mbeki. He picked Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha Freedom Party, the opposition and swore him in. Buthelezi took oath of office, was given the instruments of power and President Mandela left the country. When he came back, Buthelezi went back to his opposition bench. This can be compared to leaving your house to travel abroad and you call your family to announce that your wife will be in charge of the family. It is neither here nor there because she is the next in command. When you are not there, she is in charge. Therefore, whenever the President leaves the country, the Deputy President is the Acting President. So, those of you who get excited that one of you was left to act as the President and that during his acting, he displayed extreme humility, what did you expect him to do? Did you expect him to walk on people? Did you expect him to start running around recklessly with the presidential motorcade to show who was in charge? Nothing happened within the 48 hours to even warrant the Deputy President to display the powers of a President. He was not anything different. I can tell you, as a lawyer, for free, Sen. Njoroge, because you challenged me, that no instruments of power were given to the Deputy President. In fact, no instruments of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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