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    "id": 1262592,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, for purposes of clarity, on page 87 of our laid Report, we have attached Supreme Court decisions that are supposed to guide this House on matters impeachment. If you go to page 87, on the issue of impeachment, the court said that all that is required is for the allegations to be substantiated. The charge the Deputy Governor of Siaya County is facing is interference of procurement procedures. If you read the Report and the cross-examination by Sen. Chimera, that matter was established beyond reasonable doubt, not even on a balance of probabilities. This House has set the record. We have impeached two governors; the former governors of Kiambu and Nairobi. Nobody has been impeached in this House for committing criminal acts. It is because of issues of integrity. As I speak, the Report before the House demonstrates that the Deputy Governor of Siaya wanted to interfere with procurement and prevent the youth and women of Siaya County from benefitting from procurement. Where does he want the youth of Siaya to get opportunity to do business with the county Government of Siaya? Where does he want the women of Siaya to get opportunities of doing business with counties? Mr. Speaker, Sir, you cannot allow such a deputy governor to continue occupying office. If we want to draw lessons, even if you go to the United States (US), President Nickson was forced to resign from office not because he committed any serious criminal act but because he tried to interfere with the Watergate Scandal. So, what is before this House is evidence that has been brought to this House demonstrating that the Deputy Governor tried to interfere with procurement that was to benefit the youth and women of Siaya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we should not allow a person who lives in a glass house to throw stones and get away with it. When he appeared before the Committee, the Deputy Governor gave us an impression of a man who wanted to fight corruption in the county of Siaya. He protested when the youth were being given these contracts. However, on the issue of the seat of Kshs1.2 million, he pretended that he was never aware. I am asking this House; do you protect somebody who sits on a Kshs1.2 million seat and he pretends that he had nothing to do with the procurement of that seat? Mr. Speaker, Sir, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) administration, you have told us that you want to fight corruption. Today, we want you to demonstrate that indeed you want to fight corruption. If you want Kenyans to look at you as sheep in wolves’ skin, we shall know today."
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