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    "id": 757587,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/757587/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mutunga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13495,
        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": "Let me refer this House to Chapter 1 of the Constitution on sovereignty of the people and the supremacy of the Constitution. I am specifically referring to Article 2 (2). It says that there is no person who can claim or exercise state authority except as authorised under the Constitution. Anyone who does that will basically be misleading the public. I want to specifically say that the NASA leadership, who are senior officials in this country, are misleading Kenyans by trying to tell them that it is possible for us not to have an election as specified by the Constitution, and that they are peace loving people. There is no way people can say they are peace loving and lead people to protest on the streets for nothing, or for lies. Article 3(2) of the Constitution basically says that any attempt to establish a government in any other means otherwise than in compliance with the Constitution is unlawful. Our friends in the Opposition, who are the minority, are trying to imagine that it is possible to establish a government in this country through other means. They are trying to imagine that there is a likelihood to have a constitutional crisis after the 60 days repeat presidential election window closes. I would like to tell Kenyans that that is not possible. I would like us, at some point in time in this House, to relook at the election laws and even look into possibilities of invalidating this Constitution. It might be necessary for us to even look at what our friends and neighbours have in terms of electoral laws and their provisions within their constitutions. I want to specifically refer to…."
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