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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Peter Wanyama",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I appreciate. On the issue about whether these allegations are gross or not, I wanted to simply explain that – I appreciate my senior colleague, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. – we may have a difference of opinion on the issue. Perhaps, your opinion is much weighty in terms of experience and all that but in my humble opinion in terms of whether these allegations are gross or not, we thought that the Court of Appeal has interpreted the decision fully regarding the provisions of Article 181. The Court of Appeal said that impeachment is a serious matter and it ought to meet the threshold in the Constitution. Therefore, there must be nexus between the Governor and those allegations and that those allegations are supposed to be specifically detailed and gross. So, that was my opinion. I may be wrong and all that but I respect the comments. Secondly, in relation to the provisions of Section 166 and the reports which are required under 167, I went to check the issue. I went to check and if you look at the provisions of Section 164 of the PFM Act, it talks about financial statements. I may be wrong on this but the financial statements are the balance sheet, the income expenditure of the county government and the cash flow. So, these are the financial statements which are required by the PFM Act for the county treasury to submit to the county assembly on 30th September every year. However, if you look at the provisions of Section 166, this talks about quarterly reports. So, I agree with you that there may have been some mistake which was made in that documentation resulting to this impeachment. I perfectly agree. I do not need to belabuor that point further. On the issue of gender compliance, I need to point out that indeed, there is no gender equity in the County Executive of Nyeri. That is very clear. However, in terms of the evidence which has been represented by the governor, it is something that the governor needs to look at for purposes of remedying but at least a third of the County Executive Committee Members are not supposed to be from the same gender to meet that law. So, it is not an excuse that they are saying all these paralysis at the national level will affect issues at the county level. Something ought to be done at the county level. It is a challenge but it must be done. Steps should be taken to ensure that we do not have that problem at the county executive level in terms of composition. I know my time is up. I will retire because my five minutes are up."
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