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"content": "The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "OPENING STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE KISII DEPUTY GOVERNOR"
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir and Members of the Senate. When we come down to cross-examining the witnesses that will be called by the County Assembly and our witnesses, you will be surprised at how far the person they are describing is from what they have described him. You will be surprised by their use of exaggerated adjectives. You will realize that the Deputy Governor is, indeed, a man of integrity, a Christian and a man of conscience. I would like to address the five counts. I know there is repeated contention that they are four, but they are five. The first one is whether or not he took a bribe from one Dennis Misati. The second one is whether he gave a bribe to one Lucy Wahito. The third one is whether he threatened one Dennis Misati. The fourth one is whether he misused the staff of the County Assembly and the fifth one is whether he misused his authority to have his brother arrested. On the first count, the allegation is that the Deputy Governor received a sum of--- In some paragraphs of their claim, they say he received Kshs799,000. In others, they say he received Kshs800,000 which was meant to be a bribe to enable Dennis Misati get a job. In the introduction of the said Dennis Misati, he is described as a 37 year old gentleman. Our case will be this; that the sum of Kshs800,000 was received by the Deputy Governor. However, that amount was a refund of money he had lent to the father of Dennis Misati. We will be calling the father of Dennis Misati to come and confirm that, indeed, he received that money from the Deputy Governor in the period around October-November, 2022."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, when he visited Mr. Monda, on the 28th of May, 2023, Mr. Monda asked him whether he could get his refund as he was travelling and the said father of Dennis – Joseph Misati said that he could refund him. He had the funds and he gave him the amount. We will show, from both M-Pesa and bank accounts that indeed the money came from the accounts of Mr. and Mrs. Misati."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, part of our defense team will address this. However, I draw your attention to this first point in our response to the first count. You will be subjected to the spectacle where a father is saying that money belongs to him and he was refunding his friend of 32 years, money he had borrowed eight or nine months ago. You will be subjected to a spectacle where you have to choose whether to believe the father or the son."
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"content": "You will be subjected to a situation where you will have to determine whether the money belongs to the son or the father and the mother. You will be subjected to a situation where you would have to determine whether the allegation of having sold a saloon has anything to do with this case, or it was fabricated to whip up emotions."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the second count of the alleged giving of bribe. We do not deny that an amount of Kshs100,000 came from the M-Pesa account of the Deputy Governor to the account of Lucy Wahito. However, we have explained and we will show you the M-Pesa records showing that it was a mistake on the part of His Excellency, Dr. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Monda in the remittance of the amount and that he had intended to remit the amount to someone who had given him service, one Gladys Aming’a who had given him transportation services."
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"content": "We will show you that the phone book recording by the Deputy Governor was the names of the two people who are next to each other because they are both chief officers in the Kisii County Assembly and that was just a mistake. It is said that Lucy is eligible to become a saint because she returned the money and refused to be influenced."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we will invite your attention to two details on this issue. The first one is that, by 28th May, 2013, interviews and scoring of the candidates had been done about 13 days earlier. This is so that by 28th May, 2013, the person who had successfully contested for that office had been determined because of the scores done by the various members of the Board. It could not possibly be a basis to influence who would be assigned this job."
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