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    "id": 1361669,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "Learned Counsel, Dr. Okubasu, exercising that power in the book of Proverbs 17, confronted him in cross-examination. He asked him, if this Senate were to take the liberty and call a Form CR12 from the company’s registry, would he appear as a director of Ivy Health Care? He stuttered and in that moment, spoke about three other companies completely not mentioned in that affidavit. It turned out he was not a director of Ivy Health Care. At paragraph eight of his affidavit, which was read to him, he says that he was surprised upon arrival in China that the delegation that the Governor had recommend to Ivy Health Care, was not a technical team. He learned that when he arrived in China, it turned out the man never went to China. He stuttered. Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri Murwithania will be remembered by this House as the leader who was captured on video supporting the most sexually offensive remarks against a woman in the 21st Century, before the country’s Senate, asserted by another leader, Mpuru Aburi, an Hon. Member. These are the people that we have been told have mounted a convincing case. Let us face it. I used to be taught that no one makes good deals with bad guys. Can you get credible evidence from these most incredible fellow citizens? Is it possible? Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to now deal with the charges presented before this House by the County Assembly. From the onset, allow me to very humbly invite the hon. Senators to administer a caution to themselves individually, as you consider this matter. Individual Senators, please, caution yourself that the case of the County Assembly cannot be permitted to mutate from the charges that were prosecuted at the County Assembly. It cannot be allowed. Rule 19 of the Fifth Schedule of the Standing Orders provides for the procedure of the impeachment process before the whole House, as we are doing now. It prescribes that in presenting its evidence, the Assembly shall not introduce any new evidence that was not a part of the allegations against the Governor by the County Assembly, as forwarded by the Speaker of the County to the Speaker of the Senate. This case cannot be allowed to mutate. There must be logic behind this. The logic is, there must be definitiveness on what the Governor is responding to. Allow me to deal with Counts one and five together. These counts are found in the Assembly’s documents Volume 1. Count 1 has four specific allegations. Allegation No.1; that the Governor has violated certain provisions of the Constitution and the law - they have specified it there, I will not read them - by engagement, connivance and/or complicity in the following:- First, allow me to tell you that this charge is duplex. It is a defective charge. If not for anything else, you must discourage this form of drafting; it is poor drafting. The Governor has to elect whether she is going to defend herself against engaging in those acts, against conniving in those acts, or against complicity in those acts. In law, that is an impossible task. What the County Assembly has done is to cast a wide net in the words of the fishing vocabulary, in the hope that it may catch crabs, fish and perhaps some snakes, so that you"
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