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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
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"content": " Hon. Senators, pursuant to Rule 17 of the Rules of Procedure as contained in the Third Schedule to the Senate Standing Orders, each party will have not more than 30 minutes to make their opening statements. We will start with the County Assembly. The Floor is yours."
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"speaker_name": "Mr. Ndegwa Njiru",
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I seek your guidance and leave before we make our address on Rule 10 of the Standing Orders and Article 50 of the Constitution, in respect to a preliminary issue that has arisen and Rule 14 as well. Any preliminary questions or issues raised by the County Assembly or the Governor shall be argued for not more than 30 minutes, unless the Speaker otherwise directs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I seek your guidance in respect to a communication that was done to this House by the County Assembly via a letter dated 17th August, 2024 and another one dated 18th August, 2024. In the letter dated 17th August, 2024, we sought the indulgence of this House to exercise its powers to summon a witness who was not within our ability; one CPA Virginia Kawira Miriti, who is currently the CEO of Meru County Public Service Board (CPSB). In our letter, we laid out the basis upon which our application is premised and also sought that she comes with any relevant information that relates to the proceedings before this House this morning. Currently, Virginia works at the County Government of Meru and she is the CEO who should speak to the various issues raised in our Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this means that she is an integral infrastructure in respect to laying the case and the basis of our Motion for impeachment, to the extent that if her availability is not secured, we will end up prejudicing the case for the County Assembly. I also seek your guidance because we were served with the documents and responses from the Governor’s response team, and as correctly put and captured by your address this morning, we noted that there were some serious issues that had been raised. Some of them bordered between criminality or forgery of documents. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in that respect, we noticed from the Governor’s response, a letter from Ms. Linda Gakii Kiome, the Legal Advisor to the Governor as at 23rd February, 2024. We equally noted a purported letter from Jacob Kirari, the Clerk of the County Assembly. This letter is purportedly received by the Speaker of the County Assembly of Meru."
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"speaker_name": "Mr. Ndegwa Njiru",
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, those two letters have been addressed and annexed as KM5, appearing on pages 11 to 12 of the Governor's response at Vol.1B. Additionally, the County Assembly of Meru seeks to summon one Linda to come and speak to the authenticity of that letter. When she saw the response, she filed an affidavit, which is yet to be placed on record before this honourable Senate, with the office of the Clerk of the Assembly, dated 18th August 2024."
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"speaker_name": "Mr. Ndegwa Njiru",
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"content": "The risk of us not summoning these two individuals, and especially Mr. Jacob to come and tell us whether the County Assembly ever received those letters from the County Governor, will be that we shall proceed based on evidence that has criminal liability and aspects. We will proceed to answer and hear a case and a defence that is tainted with illegality. That means that Article 50 of the Constitution on the right to a fair hearing, which must and shall not be derogated, shall be infringed. It is alleged by the response in paragraphs 54 and 56 of the Governor's response---"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
"speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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"content": " Counsel for the County Assembly, are you still on the request?"
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"speaker_name": "Mr. Njiru Ndegwa",
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"content": "Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
"speaker_title": "The Speaker",
"speaker": null,
"content": " Are you still on the preliminary issue? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services, Senate."
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"speaker_name": "Mr. Njiru Ndegwa",
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"content": "I seek your guidance. I pen off that. We seek the summoning of Virginia Kawira."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
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"content": " So, let us dispense with that first. Then you may proceed to make your opening statement."
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"speaker_name": "Mr. Njiru Ndegwa",
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"content": "In the alternative, if these are not going to be summoned, we seek to expunge from the record the affidavit of one Nkanata Dickson Munene, and most importantly the offending paragraph three, and the Governor's response that has cited those particular letters that claim to be an illegality and a forgery. However, I would appreciate it if they were summoned. I am most humbled."
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