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    "content": "is an issue that runs throughout all the impeachment charges. Most of the issues are as a result of knee-jerk reaction by the county assembly. In our submissions, these impeachment proceedings ought not to have been here in the first place. If you look at the question of threshold, only one witness, who did not want to testify before this House, was produced to support more than 10 charges which are before the Senate. It is clear that the county assembly was not serious in terms of presenting its case before the Senate. If it was serious about presenting its case well in the Senate, it could have brought some documented evidence, which they can easily get from the county executive; documents which we have endeavored to produce before this Senate, so that we can discharge the burden which ideally the county assembly ought to have discharged. Therefore, on the question of burden of proof, it is our submission that the county assembly has not discharged that burden well to meet the threshold which has been laid down by the Senate in a decision which we have annexed. This House is not a rubberstamp of faulty decisions; it is guided by rules of evidence, precedent and the most important document; the Constitution. Indeed, in our documentation, which we have annexed in the governor’s bundle Volume III, there is a decision of this House, in the matter concerning the impeachment of the Governor for Kericho County, Gov. Paul Chepkwony, where the Senate looked at these issues and in its wisdom, having found that the impeachment proceedings---"
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