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"content": " Hon. Senators, I welcome you to this Special Sitting of the Senate. On the request of the Senate Majority Leader vide letter Ref. No. SEN/MLS/4, dated 21st June, 2023, and with the support of the requisite number of Senators, I appointed today, Monday 26th June, 2023, as a day for a Special Sitting of the Senate vide Gazette Notice No.8224, dated 22nd June, 2023. In the Gazette Notice, I indicated that the business to be transacted at this Special Sittings shall be the consideration of the report of the Special Committee on the proposed removal from office, by impeachment, of Hon. (Dr.) William Oduol, the Deputy Governor of Siaya County. Hon. Senators, you will recall that by a letter Ref. No. CASADM/33/04, dated Friday 9th June, 2023, and received in my Office on Saturday, 10th June, 2023, the Speaker of Siaya County Assembly informed me that at a Sitting of the County Assembly held on Thursday, 8th June, 2023, the County Assembly approved a Motion, pursuant to Article 181 of the Constitution and Section 33 of the County Governments Act, for removal from office, by way of impeachment, of Hon. (Dr.) William Oduol, the Deputy Governor of Siaya County. In terms of Article 181 of the Constitution, Section 33(3)(a) of the County Governments Act and Standing Order No.81(a) of the Senate Standing Orders, upon receiving the notice of the resolution from the Speaker of Siaya County Assembly, during the Sitting of the Senate on Thursday, 15th June, 2023, I read the charges against the Deputy Governor. Consequently, the Senate, on Thursday, 15th June, 2023, pursuant to Section 33(3)(b) of the County Governments Act and Standing Order No. 81(b)(i), by resolution, established a Special Committee comprising 11 of its Members to investigate the matter of the proposed removal from office, by impeachment, of Hon. (Dr.) William Oduol, the Deputy Governor of Siaya County, and report to the Senate within 10 days of appointment on whether it finds the particulars of the allegations to have been substantiated. Hon. Senators, for avoidance of doubt, the ten days prescribed by the County Governments Act and Senate Standing Orders lapsed yesterday, Sunday, 25th June, 2023. However, Article 259(7) of the Constitution states as follows- “If in any particular circumstances, the period of time prescribed by the Constitution ends on a Sunday or a public holiday, the period extends to the first subsequent day that is not a Sunday or a public holiday.” This Sitting is therefore properly convened and the Senate is within the statutory timelines to consider this matter."
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