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    "id": 938873,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/938873/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as was the case in Bomet County. What about the public interest and services to the people? Apart from a governor, even the President is not referred by the Constitution as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Every legislation looks at the governor as the CEO. If you look at other parastatal bodies that we have in this country where a CEO has been asked to step aside during criminal proceedings, that person has not been removed from that office. In the case of Kenya Pipeline Company or Kenya Power Company, those two CEOs were asked to step aside from their offices and temporary CEOs were put in place, so that we do not interfere with the services being provided to the citizens. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I request my colleagues that because of public interest and given that this is a House of reason, I want us to divorce politics from public service- --"
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