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    "id": 826794,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826794/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "This followed a ruling by the Supreme Court as to what should happen. I am aware when deputy speakers in counties got into a lot of trouble they received a lot of legal advice from my Senator, Mutula Kilonzo Junior. One of the solutions was this law. There is a lot of chaos in many counties. We have seen what is happening in many parts of the country between speakers and MCAs. The moment there is a little quarrel; there is no mechanism of resolving it. County Assemblies impeach speakers and quite a number have been impeached. Right now, the reasons for impeaching a county assembly have been given in this law. A county assembly speaker may be removed pursuant to the law for gross violation of the Constitution or any other law, incompetence, gross misconduct, if convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment for at least six months - that is the lowest jail term available – and for inability to perform the functions of the office of the speaker arising from mental or physical incapacity. These have not been in law. Now it is clear under what circumstances a county assembly speaker can exit office, unlike what was happening where MCAs would wake up one day and impeach their speaker, if they felt that a mistake had been done. We have the case of Homa Bay County and Nairobi County."
}