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    "id": 1361647,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Jacob Ngwele",
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    "content": "is the second time the Governor is still being accused of usurping the powers and functions of the Board. With respect to count four, we do submit that the count has been proved. The last two counts which I am going to move quickly is contempt of court. Evidence has been submitted here how despite the existence of court orders from the Nyeri Employment and Labor Relations Court, the Governor for one year disregarded those orders. As a result, the court has convicted the Governor. As we sit here today, the Governor of Meru County is a convict. She has already been convicted of contempt of court. That is a violation of Article 181(1)(b) of the Constitution which provides that where there is a serious reason to believe that a county governor has committed a crime under the national law--- The Governor has already been convicted by the High Court in Meru. She is only awaiting sentence. She has not discharged the conviction. She has not appealed the conviction. That ground has already been proved. That is contempt of court. The other one is the illegal naming of the road. That one is okay. We have said it is there and the evidence has been produced. The Governor has been shown the Facebook posting whereby she is naming a road in the name of her husband. The last one is contempt of the county assembly. Section 22 of the County Assembly Powers and Privileges Act provides an impeachable ground for anybody who is a public officer who violates or dishonors the summons of the assembly. The Governor was invited to appear before the committee of the county assembly. When she was invited, she wrote back a letter and said that there was no provision of the law, which requires a governor to appear before a committee of the assembly. Article 195 of the Constitution is very clear that a county assembly or any of its committees can summon anybody to appear before the committee to provide the evidence or to give information. Section 18 of the County Assembly Powers and Privileges Act enacts the same provision and uses the word \"any person\". When the Governor was invited, her defense was that the county assembly should go to the high court, file a constitutional case and seek a constitutional interpretation on whether the Governor can be summoned to appear before the assembly yet the Constitution uses the word \"any person\". Section 22 says that where the assembly passes a resolution against an individual for violating that particular provision, that shall constitute a ground for removal from office. That is why you see this ground and Sen. Sifuna does it. What is contempt of a county assembly, whether it constitutes a violation that is the only violation I have ever seen in law whereby by it makes it an impeachable ground for failing to honour the summons of the county assembly. The assembly can pass a resolution and impeach you. That is what the County Assembly of Meru has done. We submit that this count, together with the other six counts, have been substantiated; the Assembly has demonstrated the same. Finally, my colleague, Dr. Muthomi Thiankolu has asked: Is the Governor individually liable for that particular violation? She has said all these things were done by"
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