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    "id": 1310555,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Jacob Ngwele",
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    "content": "Thank you. Article 181 of the Constitution provides the grounds which the governor can be impeached on. That is gross violation of the Constitution, gross violation of the laws; that is criminal conviction on breach of the national law. We do submit that count number one, that is misappropriation and misuse of county resources, has been substantiated and proved. I will proceed to demonstrate to this House how this charge has been substantiated. We have drafted the charges that the Governor has engaged, connivance or complicity. So, she is implicated either directly or indirectly. What my learned colleague Dr. Muthomi has said, is that it is not about the governor's direct action so that, if the Senate finds there is no direct or individual responsibility on the part of the governor, then the governor is going to be acquitted. No. There are instances when the governor is complicit or connivance or part of that violation and that is what we are going to prove. This first charge is about embezzlement and withdrawal of county funds. A lot of energy has been dispensed here to demonstrate how a total of Kshs78 million was looted, swindled, plundered or carted away from the Meru County Treasury. This swindling involved a scheme, which comprised a clique of two groups. One was a clique made up of the Governor's relatives and all of you have heard names such as Miriam, Rose, Kenneth, Guantai, and also, Meme. This was an inner circle clique of the"
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