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"content": "Mwangi, Sen. Linturi, Sen. Outa, Sen. Sakaja, Sen. Boy, Sen. Zawadi, Sen. Were, and Sen. Kavindu Muthama. When we held our first meeting, I was honoured to be elected as the Chair of this Special Committee. I thank them for shown trust and confidence in me to Chair the meetings. We worked very intensely during the consideration of this impeachment process. This work would not have been successful without the support that this Committee received form members of our secretariat. In that regard, in a very special way, I recognize the contribution that was made by the members of the Senate secretariat who was ably lead by the Director of Legal Services, Dr. Okello. We recognize their support, effort and also extend our warm compliments for the work that they did. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I confirm to the House that when we were appointed, we initiated a programme of activities that were adopted by this Committee as can be evidenced in annexure 6. We took into account the fact that the Governor needed to be accorded a fair hearing through his counsel, and we also took note of the fact that the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) of Wajir needed to be accorded a fair hearing. I confirm that the County Assembly of Wajir appeared before us and they called three witnesses who testified. The advocate for His Excellency the Governor was accorded an opportunity to test the veracity of the evidence that was tendered before the Senate through cross examination. I also confirm that we accorded the Governor an opportunity to give his address to the Committee and call witnesses in response to the charges he was facing. In this regard, I thank the industry and help that was extended to this Committee by the team of able lawyers who appeared for the parties herein led by the team that appeared for the County Assembly of Wajir that was led by Senior Counsel Ahmednassir Abdullahi and the defense team of the Governor that was led by Counsel Paul Nyamodi. This Committee greatly contributed to their submissions in preparation of this Report. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we proceeded to a working retreat for three days, from Friday 14th April to Sunday 16th April. I thank the Members who stayed for all the sessions. We had a number of preliminary issues that were raised by the parties before us. The only one I want us to note is that there was a request to summon one witness to appear before us. However, we were not able to have that witness served with summons and appear before us simply because of the limited time the Committee had to conduct its proceedings. Later on, I will highlight the observation of this Committee on the issue of the time that is accorded to it. However, we were able to admit one affidavit that was filed by the County Assembly after according both parties a hearing. The charges that were facing the Governor were basically two. The first charge was gross violation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, the County Governments Act 2012, the PPAD Act 2015 and the PFM Act 2012. In the case before the Special Committee, the County Assembly of Wajir put forward 15 allegations in support of this charge. I will not go into the details of all the allegations and observations of the Committee, but in summary- 1. Failure to accunt for the financial resources allocated to the county;"
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