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    "id": 1072581,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we sought for evidence from the MCAs in support of this allegation, we were given examples which caused a lot of excitement and a lot of serious concern from the women Senators. That the MCAs attended a meeting at the residence of the governor where the First Lady was in attendance. The question was; if the MCAs of Wajir elect to pay a courtesy call to the residence of the Governor of Wajir, do they expect the First Lady to take leave of absence from her own house? Mr. Speaker, Sir, if anything, the Committee was of the view that if MCAs visit the governor’s residence, then the First Lady has a right to be there and serve food to the MCAs. We also wanted to know whether this was the official residence or the private residence of the governor. We were told that these meetings took place at the private residence of the governor. Therefore, in protection of the womenfolk of this country including my mother, spouse and daughters, we found these allegations to be frivolous, not proved and not substantiated. The second particulars was that the governor had met MCAs in a hotel in the presence of the First Lady. We sought to be given minutes to confirm whether these meetings were official or not and there were no minutes. We sought for any photos in proof that these meetings took place in any hotel, again we were not given any photos. These made a mere allegation to us and we did submit and took judicial notice of the fact that the governor of the county government of Wajir has all the right under the sun to be romantic to his wife and to have her in his presence in his house and to go out, have coffee with her in hotels. If anybody wants this allegation to be proved in future, this should happen within the realms of official functions including where there are official meetings. If it is in a hotel, there should be minutes confirming that the First Lady of that particular county attended the meetings and that she actively participated in the proceedings and that she took a vote or guided the governor in making a decision. That was not proved. The other allegation on this was that some money was banked by the First Lady to her personal account and that a person named Jamal, the one that was summoned to appear before us, banked some money to the personal accounts of the First Lady of Wajir County. In support of this allegation, there was an alleged bank statement that was produced before this Committee. We did interrogate the veracity or authenticity of that statement and the following issues came to light. The person who appeared as witness before the Senate Committee alleged that he got copies of those statements from the bank during the month of April this year. However, on perusal of those statements, it came to the attention of the Committee that those statements, indeed, bear the signature of the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) dated January, 2019."
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