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    "content": "We equally have in this document the provisions for a Senate, recognising the importance of devolution in our country, especially in the system of government that we have crafted. We have clear provisions for the Senate to perform, not just the duties of making sure that devolved funds reach the devolution units, but also ensure that when the Presidency runs amok, we have an instrument to make sure that we impeach the President and send him home, if the need arises. It also avoids the opportunity to have a conflict of interest where this House being the House that can impeach the President, also becomes the House that tries the President. That is why we need the Senate. I do not wish to make a case that Senate must be recognised as the senior House because the people who will be elected into the Senate will naturally come from bigger constituencies that people who will be elected to the House of Representatives. Secondly, there is nowhere in this country where the Senate has been the lower House. It is history and tradition anywhere else in the world that the Senate is always the senior House. Therefore, we have a clear chance to deal with the Presidency and to avoid conflict of interest where the House of Representatives or the National Assembly becomes the investigator, prosecutor, judge and the jury. We will have this House to impeach the President and the Senate to try him. If he is found guilty of the charges that will be preferred by this House, the President will be sent home and there will be an election of the President alone. The suicide clause that currently exists in our current Constitution was mischief, so that this House does not take action against the Chief Executive."
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