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    "id": 1361671,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "say, ‘anyway, we may have grabbed a lot of snakes, but there is one fish, so vote for this fish.’ It is a poor way of dealing with a case of this nature. A case of this nature requires military precision in the charges. Be that as it may, the Governor is accused of doing those things in the form of embezzlement of county funds through the Governor's sisters; Rose Kinya Guantai and Ms. Miriam Guantai; brother, Kenneth Guantai Murangiri; brother-in-law Neffat Kinyua and nephew to the Governor’s husband, Edwin Mutuma Murangiri, all of whom are now collectively referred to as the Governor's relatives, period. The Governor comes to this court and says, ‘I want to give you evidence to show that I have not embezzled any funds through these people. How will I do this? I will give you vouchers to show what each of these people is being paid for.’ That is a sufficient answer to this charge. You are then told, no, he has not accounted for Kshs70 million. Hon. Senators, where is the charge for failure to account for Kshs70 million that the Governor is supposed to respond to in that form? Secondly, where is the charge of failure to account for Kshs78 million? If that charge came as such, then the Governor would have been under an obligation to secure her finance people to give her material in respect of all the Kshs78 million and then, we can interrogate the material one by one. Is this credible? Is this not credible, and so forth? Once we have supplied that, we must show a causal connection between that money and the person of the Governor. The Governor was taken through a fairly humiliating exercise. She was reduced to a clerical officer. You, as Senators and State officers get imprests. You know the clerical process of dealing with one single imprest at a time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you are personally to be held responsible for the imprest process in this House, would you possibly transact the business of this House? That is a matter this House must reflect on in your private moment before you take a vote. Even the Clerk, who is the administrative head of this House, if he was told to personally explain each of the individual signatures in every signature of 100 vouchers, would that be possible? Allow me to tell you why this charge is premature. An audit process presents a different environment. In an audit process, the auditor comes, receives documents; reviews them, asks questions; people go back to the drawing board, review their material and come back. The whole process takes time until we have a report. Now, here is where you file documents, and you are bound by those documents; there is no feedback. So, in this case, we have no audit report. The County Assembly should have been patient for the auditor to audit these accounts and raise specific audit queries. If they failed to get answers to those audit queries, then they should have mounted a case based on the specific audit queries that were not answered. What has happened by the Counsel for the County Assembly before you is a sad commentary on how not to prosecute an Impeachment Motion."
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