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"content": "Order. Carry on, Leader of the Majority Party."
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"speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Indeed, you have captured it very well. For the benefit of Hon. Otiende Amollo’s understanding, I used my example and that of Hon. Jack Wamboka. The same way Hon. Jack Wamboka has presented newspaper articles and media reports is the same way one cannot present such gossip columns. My argument is that there lacks particulars or precision on the gross violation of the Constitution. Hon. Jack Wamboka has completely failed to show us that. This Motion is a decoy to derail the substantive inquiry that was brought before this House by a Committee of this House. I humbly submit that I find this Motion as a decoy to make sure that we hide those who are ultimately culpable by derailing the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock from doing its work. I encourage its Members to get to the bottom of this fertiliser issue and ensure that the inquiry pinpoints to us those who are ultimately culpable. If I were Hon. Jack Wamboka, I would have been patient and waited for the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock to tell us which organisation or state officers are culpable including the Cabinet Secretaries and the Principal Secretaries. Should the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock find the Cabinet Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and those at the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) culpable, we have a duty and obligation to the country to hold them to account. Otherwise, as it is, Hon. Wamboka has completely failed. Finally, this Motion seeks to remove the Cabinet Secretary on the grounds that there were serious reasons to believe that he has committed a crime under national law. This ground requires Hon. Jack Wamboka to have attached evidence of conviction or judgment made against the accused person. He has failed to do so. As Hon. Owen Baya pointed out, he has gone to great lengths to quote cases that this House considered during the vetting and approval of Hon. Mithika Linturi as the Cabinet Secretary. That is a matter that is already spent and therefore Hon. Jack Wamboka cannot take the House back to relook into those cases. May I remind him that when the Cabinet Secretary appeared before the Committee, he said he had 32 court cases, some civil, that he was battling. The Committee, including the Member for Bumula, approved his appointment as the Cabinet Secretary. How then do you retract your steps or call the House to retract its steps? As I conclude, the mover of this Motion, as courageous as he thought he was, has completely failed the House. He has failed to show us his precision with the law that he ought to, in line with the Constitution and the Standing Orders. Allow me to conclude by saying, that the Mover of this Motion as courageous as he thought he was, has failed to show precision with the law, in line with the Constitution and Standing Orders. There is no probate of the evidence he has adduced. As I said, the grounds are not particularised in line with Standing Orders 64 and 66. He has quoted newspaper articles which I can also quote about Chairs of Committees and other people, who are said to extort money. Allow me, to plead with this House to defeat this Motion because it will derail the fight against corruption. It is only speaking to the gallery, voters and corruption which we never act on."
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"content": "You have a minute to wind up."
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"speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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"content": " In the 11th Parliament, during the State of the Nation Address, 200 state officers were declared jobless. What came out of that political pronouncement? Absolutely nothing. That is what Hon. Jack Wamboka is calling on this House to do. To make a political declaration in the impeachment of a Cabinet Secretary but get no value in the fight against corruption."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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"content": "Allow the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock to expedite its inquiry and those found culpable be charged before courts of law. Let the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) complete their investigations. Then call on us if you find any public officer culpable. We shall be there to support you in impeaching anybody who will be found culpable after credible investigations. My friend, Hon. Jack Wamboka these political things from newspaper cuttings fall flat. I beg you this early to withdraw your Motion and save yourself from embarrassment. This is why the Constitution puts a very high threshold."
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"content": "Hon. Daniel Manduku, Member for Nyaribari Masaba. Give him the microphone. Take the one next to you."
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"speaker_name": "Nyaribari Masaba, ODM",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Motion on impeachment of Hon. Mithika Linturi as Cabinet Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock Development. I support it not because I represent farmers in Nyaribari Masaba neither that my mother is a victim of the fake fertiliser scam nor that I am a farmer. But I feel there is a moral obligation that I am faced with as a Member of Parliament and a leader in this country. When the fake fertiliser scam came up, Hon. Linturi went to the media and denied the existence of any fake fertiliser. After that, he blamed the opposition and called us saboteurs. Later on, the Deputy President confirmed that indeed there was existence of fake fertiliser in the market whereupon Hon. Linturi confirmed himself. Depending on who was speaking at the time, the number of bags kept changing between 3,000 and 50,000. Hon. Linturi has served in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development for about two years. We have not had any major transformative ideas from him to make agriculture grow given that it is the backbone of our country. I want to agree with the Leader of the Minority Party that we should not have gotten to this point. Given, that the President himself even as late as yesterday, told the nation he is not here to make popular decisions. We expect him, now that he has set the standards and has a marking scheme, to act immediately if this House does not get Hon. Linturi out."
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"speaker_name": "Nyaribari Masaba, ODM",
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"content": "Hon. Speaker, our agriculture sector has faced a serious down turn. It is high time the President put somebody in place who can upturn the sector given that millions of our people depend on it."
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