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    "id": 1361667,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "Who do they take Senators for? Distinguished Senators, will you buy into this? Even when confronted with evidence of a formal marriage certificate, he proceeds with his theory that his public domain hypothesis of the marriage of Nephat Kinyua outweighs the marriage certificate. I would have hoped that as people who have a duty to this Senate, the Counsel who presented Evans Mawira would have withdrawn that part of their claim, to save us time. Think about the minutes I am spending arguing this fact. We have to do it because they have put it to us. They disrespect the Senate, this is why they are saying they must preoccupy your precious time with this issue to the wire. The star witness, Hon. Mawira Evans, introduces an alleged relationship between the first gentleman and Edwin Muragiri. He calls Edwin a nephew to the first gentleman. Somebody’s nephew ordinarily is the sister's son. What is the name of the mother of Edwin, so that we can see if he is a sibling? He says he does not know the name. Hon. Senators, let me put it this way. This country inherited a common law tradition at the beginning of the legal system. We have shifted significantly from the common law tradition because of our transformative written Constitution. In the old common law, there was the doctrine of Parliamentary supremacy. In the new order, we have the doctrine of Constitutional supremacy. Even in the traditions where Parliament enjoyed supremacy, it had no power by fiat to impose relationships upon people. Tell somebody that this is your brother from today. You have been told to make that finding as the Senate, that Edwin Muragiri is the nephew to the first gentleman. What do you do when this man begins claiming inheritance from this family by your decision? These things have consequences, people will present this HANSARD to courts in the future to prove relationships. Shall we manage the aftermath? These people did not respect this House. This witness insisted that county vehicles were destroyed in an Okolea event. Some Senators asked him that since vehicles in this country are identified by their registration numbers, there is no other method of identifying vehicles. He said he had another method, which is the affidavit of No.113748PC, Kevin Wafula, is a method of recognizing or attributing ownership to vehicles. That was novel. The county assembly’s star witness elevated jokes to legendary heights. The witness tried to introduce a theory that the Governor had employed Edwin Muragiri and Nephat Kinyua, who he claimed were the Governor’s relatives. We have shown that there is no evidence they were. They were not. It then turned out that these people were employed in 2017 and 2016 respectively; that the Governor employed them in the county in advance of her election as governor. I am wondering what they take this Senate to be. Can somebody in good conscience sustain this case to the wire as the Counsel for the Assembly has done? Dr. Gitonga Jeremiah came to this House. I will invite you to look at the affidavit of that witness, but I will not read it because of time. From the very first paragraph of the affidavit of that witness, when his memory is still clearest, he told the advocate drafting his affidavit, that he is a director of Ivy Health Care. When he stood here and told to introduce himself, he took an oath before this Senate and from his mouth, perjured himself on oath, saying he is the Director of Ivy Health Care."
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