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    "id": 1042049,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are just two quick issues I would like to address that I think are pertinent in the future. First, I believe we need to re-address the procedure of how we deal with these impeachment processes because we might run the risk of compromising a very important tenet and virtue of this process, and that is believability. If these processes continue and then eventually it is clear to somebody who is following that we are not able to prosecute the matter to its detail because of lack of time, such that there is even no time to question the veracity of evidence and look at the authenticity of documents when they have been presented, that eventually would eat into the solid foundation of this House as one that is given that constitutional duty. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, I believe that what we are seeing when these processes start is not what is intended in the Constitution. At one point in the process, it ended up being a contest between MCAs. If this side brings an MCA and they are trying other MCAs on the other side, is this a contest between members of the same county assembly that have come here to say this one said and this one this did not do this? Indeed, it almost reduced to a contest between lawyers. You would find one lawyer questioning the authenticity and integrity of the other one. I believe that when a decision is made at the county assembly level, if it was made correctly, when the matter arrives here, it should virtually be the accused against the allegations, for the Senate to listen to but not a contestation on whether there was a lying MCA and a truthful one. We should be asking ourselves whether this process serves devolution by the way we prosecute it. I believe we will make it fine and better if we qualify the process by ensuring---"
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