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    "id": 1071485,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "relevant officer and the Governor fails to implement, then the governor can be held accountable for not taking action against his officer. The Committee advised that the County Assembly takes action against public officers who break procurement laws. By doing that, they can remedy the breaking of procurement laws at the county level, instead of escalating it to the Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to reiterate the observations of the Mover of the Motion. The timeframe of carrying out the impeachment process is not enough. We need to amend our Standing Orders, so that we have enough time to consider matters of impeachment whenever they are brought before the House. Standing Order 75 (4) (a) states that: - ‘If the special committee reports that the particulars of any allegation against the governor— (a) have not been substantiated, no further action shall be taken under this section in respect of that allegation;’ My understanding is that the Special Committee, just like any other Committee of the House, is working for the House. Whatever the Special Committee establishes should be brought to the House, which will have the final say. In this instance, if the Committee did not substantiate any allegation, the report should be submitted to the House for debate. We could decide that if two-thirds majority of the House votes to overturn the findings of the Committee, the same should be implemented. If that is implemented, more Members would prefer impeachment hearings to be conducted through committees, since the proceedings will not be terminated using the provisions of Standing Order 75(4) (a). In the charge against abuse of office, very emotive issues were raised. The Senate will in future have to ask for facts before making any conclusion. It is for that reason that we insisted that any information provided should be admissible to us. For instance, in the case of bank statements that were presented by the Wajir County Assembly, we inquired how the documents were acquired, but the witness was unwilling to share the source and so, we could not rely on the same. Whenever a county assembly decides to prosecute its case, it must give us enough information for us to make the decision they want us to make. The county assemblies have to push and argue their case. It is not the work of the Special Committee to argue their case for them. In the case of Allegation 15 that has been substantiated by the Special Committee, we saw failure in the health sector of the county, which is a devolved function. It is one of the major cornerstones of devolution. Whenever the health system of a county is going down and that county gives more than 20 per cent of its budget to health, you are left to wonder. We were told that health workers are on strike and the main equipment in a number of the hospitals are not working at a time when we are dealing with the COVID- 19 pandemic. The County Government of Wajir received Kshs194 million to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. With such an amount, we expected the oxygen plant and other major equipment to be in operation. We were given instances where people, including a health employee, passed on due to lack of oxygen in the hospital, yet the"
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