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    "id": 1252284,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "finds the particulars of the allegations against the Deputy Governor to have been substantiated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is one of the very important and sacred duties that we get to do as a Senate. On many occasions, we are invited into a dispute that is between the governor and the county assembly. I think this is either the third or the fourth time that this Senate is being invited to a dispute between the Governor and a specific county assembly. This is one of our constitutional duties. I have laid the legal provisions that give backing to this exercise that we begin this afternoon. I persuade the House that it is possible for us to handle an impeachment Motion either by way of Plenary or through a select committee. I have argued here before and I still maintain my position that having participated in both ways in this House, there is none that you can say supersedes the other. Therefore, on many occasions, we rely on the wisdom of the Senate Business Committee (SBC), except in one or two occasions that I can recall where the House disagreed with them. It is always good to be persuaded by all the matters that are being presented before them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the SBC listened to the consideration of various Chairpersons of Committees that sit with us at the SBC. There are tight businesses that are before various Committees including matters such as Petitions, Statements and Bills that I have just presented before you in the Statement of the week by the Senate Majority Leader that needs to be concluded on. I feel that this being the impeachment of a Deputy Governor, which is equally as important as that of a governor, I humbly request my colleagues, Senators, to agree with the SBC, that these 11 colleagues of ours be granted an opportunity to listen to the case that will be presented by the County Assembly of Siaya. They will also listen to the defense by Hon. William Oduol and make a determination that guides us, as a House, on whether to agree or disagree with the reasons that they find therein. I have looked at the list of our 11 colleagues. All of them are competent. I believe that they are men and women of integrity who will look at the case for what it is and block their ears from the politics that exist outside because many things can be said. It is not the first time that an impeachment has been mentioned in this House. In fact, I wish to remind Senators, including the Senator for Siaya that this matter has found its way into the Plenary of this House; we are now judges in a dispute. Therefore, we cannot be found to make comments publicly. This is something that many Senators need to know. There is a precedence in rulings that even social media comments amount to comments on a dispute that is before the House. In the impeachment trial of Governor Ferdinand Waititu versus the County Assembly of Kiambu, one Senator - I think it must have been Sen. Isaac Mwaura - was found to have fallen foul of the law and the provisions of the Standing Order of this House, simply because of a Facebook post that he made while proceedings were going on. The House censured him."
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