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    "id": 1361652,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir and distinguished Senators. For the record, my name is Elisha Ongoya. I will be making the Governors’ final submissions. Before I delve into the substantive part of my submissions and looking at the programme of this House, this may be the last time I am standing here to address on this matter. Allow me, with great humility, to begin by thanking you, Mr. Speaker and the distinguished Senators who have given us audience despite the great time constraints that we have had to go through in making this case. I will be failing in my responsibility for courtesy if I did not thank the secretariat staff of this Senate who have given us significant support both within this House and in the corridors of these precincts as we found our way around. At this juncture, allow me to proceed to the more substantive parts of the Governor's closing submissions. Allow me to begin by pointing out that as a young Christian fellowshipping at Esirave Church of God deep in Vihiga County and as a middle-aged Christian fellowshipping somewhere in Amalemba Church of God in Kakamega County, I have gathered some enduring lessons from scripture. I will start by drawing inspiration from those lessons. The wise man who authored the Book of Proverbs 18:17, guides us as follows when we are confronted with matters such as this. In a lawsuit, the first to speak seems right until someone comes forward to cross-examine him. That ecclesiastical wisdom has found pragmatic rendition in these proceedings, as I will demonstrate shortly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Governor was presented in the opening remarks by the County Assembly's counsel to this Assembly, for lack of a better word, as some form of scoundrel. Fortunately, in this august House, both parties have had an opportunity to present documentary and electronic evidence. When the history of this attempted impeachment of the Governor of Meru County, Her Excellency Hon. Kawira Mwangaza shall be authored, one word will be repeated in that historical text. That word is a Meru word, Kibiri . I am told in its innocence; it is a stick that is used to stir porridge."
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