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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "It is not there. If you look carefully at those pictures you see there, they are speaking about diplomatic duties. Surely, I was a little embarrassed as the Senate was engaged in that. Bullying, vilification and demeaning other leaders. We have shown what they have done to the Governor. The less I say about it, the better. They actually dared and threw the first stone when they had sinned more. On illegal appointments, I will talk about this because this is Statutory and I have an obligation to guide this Senate on the law. I will refer this Senate to Section 64 of the County Governments Act. It says- “Acting appointments shall be made only by the lawful appointing authority and for a specified period.’ It then says, nothing in this Section, nothing that previous section has said shall prevent a Public Officer like the Governor here or the County Secretary, those are public officers, from deploying another officer to perform the duties vested in another office during a temporary absence or a vacancy in that office. If you listen to the case of the County Assembly, they will keep quiet on Section 64 (4), as if it does not exist. However, let us move further Senators. Section 64(5) says- “If it comes to the attention of the County Public Service Board (CPSB), that a public officer has purportedly made an acting appointment, delegation or deployment as the case may be contrary to the provision of this section, the CPSB shall take necessary corrective action.” This is something that the law prescribes its own procedures for remedying. Why would you use a sledgehammer of an impeachment when the law prescribes a lesser restrictive measure that can solve the problem? That is what the County Assembly has engaged in. Naming a public road after the husband: Show us the road. ‘Oh! Let us go to"
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