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    "id": 695047,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gov. Nderitu Gachagua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Nderitu Gachagua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to respond to some of the issues. From the outset, as I said a little earlier in my opening remarks, and given that this is the first quasi-judicial hearing being conducted at the Senate by the Plenary, and being the accused person, by and large I am fairly happy with the way the proceedings have gone. In the closing remarks, we will put our case. So far, as the Governor of Nyeri, I am happy with the way proceedings have gone. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to explain a little about the county secretary who seems to have generated so much heat. Indeed, this is a very crucial position in any government. Were it not that we are the ones in the dock today, you would be surprised at how many governments have county secretaries. This is the heart of the county government. It is an office where a lot of day to day decisions that affect so many are made. Therefore, that the office generates heat. The last substantive county secretary that we had in Nyeri resigned. As the appointing authority she confided in me that she could not take the pressure of the office of the county secretary. She was a very competent, hardworking and ‘soft’ young lady. It is that ‘soft’ bit of it that could not make her conduct this job. On a number of times she was admitted to hospital for high blood pressure due to the pressure that she was getting at the county assembly; the summons, unnecessary demands, timelines within which she had to do things and sometimes even the use of unsavory language. She was always summoned and there was little she could do. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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