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    "content": "power were necessary to be given to him because he is part of the team of the presidency in this country. That is why we call it “presidency.” It is a collegial; it is the President and his running mate. That is why the Deputy President does not run on a ticket of his own. Nobody voted for William Ruto, people voted for President Uhuru Kenyatta. However, William Ruto was part of the package. It does not take rocket science to know this. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what we are calling a speech by the President to the Joint Sitting of the National Assembly and the Senate is a statement that was completely irrelevant. It did not deserve summoning of the two Houses. I agree with the President that going to The Hague was a personal matter. You cannot come to address Parliament on a personal matter. Of course, he coloured it by starting to tell us that he had been in New York at the General Assembly of the United Nations. That, we know, we had seen it. He told us he had said one or two things in New York. That, we know because it had been printed in the newspapers that other people in New York had acknowledged Kenya as a peacemaker in this region. That is something everybody knows. He also said that Kenya is spearheading peace efforts in the region. He did not have to call Parliament to address us on that. The real point was; “fellow Kenyans, I am going to The Hague, and The Hague that I said was personal. I am now telling you that I am going”. Do you need to address Parliament to say that now William Ruto will act as the President? Do you need to tell Parliament that he is going to do so? I say no. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the end of the day, we have a Motion before this House that is a complete waste of our time. It is a Motion that should have never found its way here. This is a Motion that does not deserve and merit our debate. When the President addresses the country on the State of the nation, we all stand here to applaud what he said after discharging his constitutional responsibility. We criticize what he did not say or what he did not say properly as we are dutifully bound to say as the alternative leadership. I can assure you that if it was a CORD leadership ---"
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