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    "id": 755511,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "instead to go to Kamukunji grounds in Kibra. The State opening of Parliament is in the Constitution. Under Article 142 of the Constitution, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is the President of the Republic of Kenya and remains in his first term of office until the date of his swearing in into his second term. I even saw Baba saying that Uhuru is not the 12th President to open the 12th Parliament. What we have is the 12th Parliament and the 4th President. There is no 12th President. Article 132(1) of the Constitution says that the President of the Republic Kenya will inaugurate and open the first sitting of a new Parliament, it is cast in stone. Who is the President? It is Uhuru Kenyatta. Who are the Speakers? They are J.B. Muturi and Ken Lusaka. The process is for them to write to him and then they gazette the date and the new Members attend. Jubilee Members should now realise that they can be misinformed by your leaders. This august House sits today and tomorrow to discuss the President’s Address given at the inaugural sitting of the 12th Parliament, through which His Excellency the President outlined and underscored the following: that his administration is unshakable, steadfast and committed to the rule of law that is the central feature of the personal vision as well as the uncompromising feature of the Jubilee administration. I was in the Supreme Court when the judges invalidated the presidency of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Two hours later he addressed the nation and said, ‘Well and good, we will go back to the elections.’ I have worked with Baba unlike many of the Members here. For your information, and this should go on record, I was the Deputy Vice-Chairman of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in charge of political affairs at one time. Having worked with him I asked myself, if that election which was invalidated was an election in which Raila Odinga won, Kenya today could have been a different place. I am sure even the house of Justice Maraga could have been ashes now, whether it is in Kisii or Karen. But because Uhuru Kenyatta believes in the rule of law, he said we should respect the decision of the judges. We might not agree with them, but let us go back to elections. We will go back to elections and we shall win with a very big margin of 70 per cent plus one. The President also talked about the Government of Kenya which he leads and his commitment to the Constitution of Kenya 2010. He does not merely give lip service, but instead he lives and breathes every letter of that supreme law. Of course, he also said that the Government of Kenya has a transformative agenda for the nation built on the undeniable and self-evident success as from March 2013 to date and that the transformation agenda by him and his deputy and all of us will continue."
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