16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, Hon. Senators, the preamble to our Constitution and I read the third paragraph, “proud of our ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity and determined to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign nation.” Underline ethnic, cultural and religious diversity.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Definitely, not at all.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Article 10 (1) states- “The national values and principles of governance in this Article bind all state organs, state officers, public officers and all persons whenever any of them –
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
(a) Applies or interprets this Constitution;
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
(b) Enacts, applies or interprets any law; or
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
(c) Makes or implements public policy decisions.”
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Number one, the constitutional context is that they bind all State officers and the Deputy President is a state officer. There are no two ways. You cannot choose the laws to obey and which not to obey. Number two, we have also had a history in our country. All of us would remember that we had clashes in Likoni in 1992 where populations were displaced. We had problems in Molo in every other cycle of election; in election of 1992-1997 and most recently where the country almost torn apart during the post-election violence of 2007 and 2008. There are examples ...
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Indeed, that is my testimony.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Not just the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya, but not from any citizen of the Republic.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Yes. We have placed evidence in the form of videos that have been recorded in meetings where the Deputy President has been attending, being Video No.1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 11, which contain utterances of the Deputy President in that regard.
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