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    "id": 1304266,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1304266/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The HANSARD will bear me witness. I will not stand here and assume to know the merits and demerits of the charges of the impeachment. What I referred to is solely what you read as the charges. I am only trying to persuade my colleagues to think critically about the position that they will be given in this House, to analyse the evidence, which shall be adduced in this House by the Assembly as well as the County Governor who is now being accused here. I have demonstrated clearly and I plead with particularly the Senator for Nandi County because we have sat in this Chamber together. We have looked at bundles of documents and played some videos here. Sometimes they did not play very well when we were impeaching other governors. If you compare apples to apples, you will find that the only time you can give justice to an impeachment is when 11 distinguished men and women we are proposing today will go through the evidence in a Committee sitting. Even though this is a political process, you clearly indicated as per Article 125 of the Constitution, that whenever we sit, we have the same powers as the High Court. I persuade both sides of the divide in this House to consider giving these 11 distinguished Senators an opportunity to go through the evidence. I note clearly---"
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