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    "id": 695062,
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    "speaker_name": "September 14th, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 93 Mr. Peter Wanyama",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. What happened at the County Assembly is that the Governor, in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of the Fair Administrative Action Act was to be represented by counsel in the quasi-judicial process which was happening at the County Assembly. He did not come to the County Assembly in person but he sent legal counsel. We communicated the fact of us acting for Governor to the County Assembly a day before they impeachment because everything was being done very quickly. A day before the impeachment, we communicated through a letter which they acknowledged. Indeed, when I went there, there was massive security at the entrance of the building. Because I had communicated that I was coming, the Speaker had made arrangement for me to go straight to the Clerk’s Office and later to his Office. When I went to his Office, the issue was read out. We discussed and then the Speaker said that; unfortunately, we cannot allow you to represent the Governor before the County Assembly. I had gone there with documentary evidence which had been given to me by County Executive Committee and the Governor too addressed those issues. That is what happened at the County Assembly. I was asked to leave and then the impeachment proceedings continued. Secondly, regarding the issue about non-disclosure of the Kshs70 million, first of all, I appreciate that--- There are more senior lawyers here. Yesterday they raised the issues and based on the experience of doing impeachment before, I thought that there is more than we need to do in terms of bringing documentation. Remember that it was very late. For the first time, we received the County Assembly’s evidence from the Clerk’s Office. That was a day before yesterday. So, we did not have time to look at these issues. Nonetheless, we prepared a huge bundle of documents which contain most of the issues. We worked overnight. Yesterday when these issues arose, even if the burden lies on the Assembly, for purposes of making sure that Senators do not think that we are hiding anything, I requested for a printout of the IFMIS payment and the IB payment from the County Executive which I requested to be availed before this Senate. I also requested for many other documents including the complete tender documents for the Karson’s Building. The documents I have before me are those documents which contain the extract of the IFMIS payment and the extracts of the IB Module to clear the issue that the Kshs70 million has been accounted for and it is consistent with what the Controller of Budget submitted today. Again, I requested for the file on the Karson’s Building. From the evidence that is in this file, it is very clear that in terms of the procedures, for instance, the renovations which are said to have been done on this Building are actual partitions to make the Building fit within the needs of the County Executive. They are not renovations and I have documentary evidence for that. Unfortunately and this is our own mistake, we prepared this bundle yester night up to 2.00 a.m. but unfortunately, we requested for this. It is really our mistake and we cannot blame the Speaker for having ruled against us because the rules were very clear. At the end of the day, we are saying that we have documentary evidence in proof of most of these allegations in a complete manner. If we had been given time and opportunity, we would definitely have brought this to the attention of the Senate. I made 40 copies of this yester night. It is not that we are hiding anything. From where we stand as the position of County Governor, we have documented evidence. So the issue of Kshs70 million and any other issue which requires documentary evidence is indeed there. For instance, with respect to the non-motorized facility, I requested the specific payment vouchers which we now have which shows that contrary to the County 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."
}