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    "id": 1262545,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, going to the contents of the document itself, I laud the Committee for giving the people of Siaya County an opportunity for devolution to work for them. This is because these two indictments are on very serious grounds of violation of the Constitution and the law. I can tell that some Senators who have spoken before me have not read this document. In this particular document, there is an admission by the Deputy Governor himself. Those of you who know the law, know the weight of an admission of an accused person is heavy. If the Deputy Governor himself, at page 40 and 41 of the Report, has admitted before the Committee that he attempted to interfere with procurement processes, then really we should not be debating it any further. We should take him at his own word. He has accepted to a crime and he should face the consequences of his decision. These Committee Members are the ones who interreacted with the evidence and the witnesses. They are able to tell certain things that we cannot tell from this Report. For instance, my senior here is a retired judge. He knows that the court that takes the evidence is not the same as an appellate court that only reads the documents because they are able to see the demeanour of the witnesses to tell whether somebody is being truthful or not. It would be unfortunate that we can come up with a committee of this House, they utilise all the resources of the House that they have utilised; consider all the hours that the clerks have spent then when they bring a report such as this one, we want to run away from it. I suspect that some Members here have already adopted this Report and have not told us anything else other than what we can read here on this document. I thank the Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Kisang, for giving the people of Siaya hope that now devolution is going to work for them. I want to thank Sen. Omogeni, Sen. Onyonka, Sen. Maanzo, Sen. Betty Montet, Sen. Abass, Sen. Gataya Mo Fire, Sen. Mumma and Sen. Tabitha Mutinda, one of my delegates from Nairobi City County. Thank you for giving the people of Siaya hope that devolution can work for them. Sen. Miraj and my friend, Sen. Chimera, thank you so much for standing with the truth."
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