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    "id": 1361879,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kathuri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Murungi Kathuri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also make my contribution to the Motion. From the onset, I challenge the procedure because I wish we would be making these comments after we did the voting. If you hear the comments of many Senators here, even from the Governor, it is like we have concluded business and we are yet to cast our votes. Nevertheless, Article 96(1) of the Constitution states that the Senate represents counties and serves to protect the interests of the counties and their governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish that before any governor is brought before this House to prosecute any impeachment process, this House can go to that particular county and understand the issues that have been raised by the Members of County Assembly (MCAS) of the county. I live in Meru County and even tomorrow, I will be travelling there. All the 47 of the 67 Senators who are here do not live in Meru County. I wish that during this process, at some point, before the governor is brought to this House; there could be an intermediary process in a way that the issues can be canvased. I thank Sen. Okiya Omtatah for what he is trying to do in his Petition. I wish a tribunal can be set up to sit with the MCAs, governor and leaders of the particular county so that they can be heard. When any governor is impeached and brought to the Senate immediately and directly, members of that county lose the opportunity to prosecute their issues. On this case, Meru County has a big problem. We have heard the Governor confess"
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