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    "id": 1039765,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "impeachment became very unpopular. There was a governor of Bengal in India who was impeached in parliament for seven years. The two parliaments had to sit through an impeachment process for seven years. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the United States of America, impeachment took a similar direction because they preferred the Plenary as we have now. However, out of practice, they have recognized that in order to do justice they do it through committees because Counsel would want to ask a lot of questions and then report to the House although the rules demand that they do it through Plenary. When we sit as a House, everybody is agitated and each one of us wants to undertake an intervention. If every lawyer has to take the time that he or she wants to make, then it will make a mockery of the rules and the County Governments Act. We are time bound. It reminds me of the petition of hon. Martha Karua which was delayed in the High Court and the Court of Appeal and by the time he was appealing to a superior court, they said that he took too long and that he was too late. I beg that we do justice to both parties. What we are doing right now is just rumbling and the Nairobi City County Assembly will say that they still have three more witnesses. What is the Nairobi City County Governor also take the same kind of time, then this proceeding will go beyond Friday? I insist that the Speaker should give timelines but it is unfortunately too late for that now. The Counsel of the Governor should be given more time considering the fact that the counsels for the Nairobi City County Assembly took a lot of time which they will pay for because the other witness will not have any time. The Nairobi City County Assembly have consumed fall their time on one witness."
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