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    "id": 1040154,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, my take would be that weighing the public interest on this matter and the gravity of the decision we are going to make, we are being asked to nullify the election of a governor who manages 10 percent of the country in terms of the population. Weighing this vis-à-vis the question of personal concerns of the witness, I would live comfortably with a situation where the witness is withdrawn and denied an opportunity to make a testimony, in protection of her interest than a situation where her interest is favored beyond the one of the public in terms of an impeachment process. I think it would be very difficult and problematic if, as a Senate, we establish a precedent where in future impeachments, which are a public process, will be carried out in-camera, out of the public glare and, eventually, tell the citizens of the republic that we overturned their decision through an in-camera process, of a person they elected through universal adult suffrage. This will be very difficult."
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