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    "id": 1041974,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Harrison Kinyanjui",
    "speaker_title": "The Counsel for the Nairobi City County Governor",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have answered that. Let me wind up. Sen. Linturi and Sen. Cheruiyot asked very important questions. The list of documents supplied to this honourable House does not include and show where those specific votes came from. Who voted? How did they vote? All we are being told is that 88 MCAs voted. However, His Excellency the Governor called a witness, an expert in handwriting, who impugned five of those alleged votes. That goes to the threshold. You do not have the threshold sufficient to give you this impeachment. It must fail. Hon. Members, let us consider Kenya, specifically Nairobi. Let us just for a moment introspect and ask ourselves: if we were to impeach the governor, does that provide a solution to Nairobi City County? If we were to impeach the governor, is that the most expedient action we should take? Hon. Members, I invite you to also consider Nairobi City County as a peculiar attitude. The lack of a deputy governor is informed by the pendency of five court proceedings. Immediately upon the resignation of the Deputy Governor who was elected with the governor, unfortunately, not even a week after, a case was filed in High Court. Upon its filing, the governor was then stopped from appointing a deputy governor. As I speak, Petition one of 2020 is pending before the High Court. What are we accosted by? Where will we leave devolution? Is this an opening for the executive to take over Nairobi? We must consider which is the lesser evil. Let the Members of County Assembly (MCAs) sit down with their Governor. You have the opportunity to say: “We want to pull you to line. We want to have you comply.” Let them even file a report with you every month. Have you complied with our demands that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) investigates these issues? We have a report. We know rather than taking Nairobi back to the ballot or by the formation of a commission. The formation of a commission would lead us nowhere else, but in the hands of the Executive. Hon. Members, where is devolution going to end? Mr. Speaker, Sir, his Excellency the Governor stood here under oath and said that he is being attacked for his being a stickler to the law. He is accused of not releasing The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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