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    "id": 1042037,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, you caught me off-guard. I want to listen to Sen. Sakaja. However, the whole process of impeachment is a far much better improved version than the way in which we impeached the Governor of Kiambu County, Hon. Ferdinand Waititu. I saw a lot of civility from Senators and the cross-examination from the counsel. That is something very commendable. However, we really need an impeachment procedure law, so that we are very clear that it is not whimsically possible to just make a determination as to whether we have a case for a Plenary or for the Committee based on what may have happened by a certain Committee or certain persuasions of the moment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said that, it is my opinion that, indeed, the Governor has a case to answer. I was moved personally by the charges against him, especially around gross misconduct and issues to do with variation of tenders. There is a topic I keep on talking about called development corruption where you use development money meant to help poor Kenyans and divert it by compromising on the standards of a project, so that those monies end up in people’s pockets. It was clearly demonstrated to us by the county assembly that a lot of monies were actually diverted from a stadium project. Further, quite pungently and sad that monies meant for bursaries have been diverted to pay lawyers. This is very clear conduit for self-enrichment of legal fees that would not otherwise be quantifiable - I do not whether it is the amount of English; today, we have had a lot of it - that will amount into hundreds of millions of shillings that have been diverted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we owe it to this country to have governors having the highest threshold of decorum. We want people who when they look at our televisions, they will see that these are honourable leaders who have been elected to office to serve. I my opinion, Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko has not presented himself in a such a manner. In my opinion, he is a very good example of someone who should not have been 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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