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    "id": 1072578,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on Allegation No.13, the Committee went through the evidence that was tendered before it and found that this allegation was not proved and the same was therefore not substantiated. Allegation 14, which is violation of Article 227 of the Constitution and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, the Committee having gone through the evidence that was placed before it found that this allegation was not proved. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having found that the 14 allegations had not been proved, the Committee made some observations. The first observation is that there is need for the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) to be taken through some induction on how to effectively conduct impeachments before the county assembly. It was the view of the Committee that a number of allegations that were leveled against the governor relate to a number of accounting officers who should take personal responsibility especially on issues dealing with public finance management and public procurement laws. However, there is a general misconception that in every transgression happening in our counties, governors must be held to be vicariously liable. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the second observation this Committee made is that there may be need to review the period of 10 days that is given to the Senate to receive the impeachment decision from the county assembly and for the Committee to consider, conduct a trial and render a report to the House. This is because, like in our case we had a situation where we issued summons for a witness to appear before this Special Committee but we only had one day within which to execute the summons and for the witness to appear before this Committee which was not possible. We are making a strong recommendation to the House that we need to review our Standing Order No.75, so that there is adequate time given to the Committees to conduct the impeachment hearings. The Committee has proposed a period of 21 days. Mr. Speaker, Sir, another observation is that Standing Order No.75 makes it obligatory that if the Committee finds that the allegations have not been substantiated, then that marks the end of that matter. We felt that that Standing Order needs to be reviewed so that even where the Committee makes a finding that a particular allegation has not been substantiated, then the House as a Senate should be given an opportunity to debate and make a vote on a matter. Before I go to Allegation 15 on count one, I wish to make a few comments on Count No.2. Count No.2 was abuse of office/gross misconduct. This matter was fairly emotive. The allegation was that the Governor had abused power and authority by delegating the management of the county affairs to the First Lady of the Wajir County. However, when we sought for evidence to be placed before us, we were told that the First Lady of Wajir County---"
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