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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "will fall into nine broad categories. You will realise that all the evidentiary material before you presented by the Assembly is information that was generated between August and September 2023. It was solely that period for purposes of these impeachment proceeding and nothing more. So, you will be told there is a complaint by a public citizen before the EACC and that complaint before the EACC is the basis of these impeachment proceedings. You will notice all that material was generated between August and September of 2023. You will be told that there is a summon before the County Assembly that was disobeyed. However, when you look at the record, you will discover that that summon was issued in this period. So, you will see a period where there is a spirited, deliberate design to generate material to start an impeachment process. The second category of claims - and some of this may be overlapping - is that you come across claims before you, whose evidence are claims elsewhere. We are claiming before you that the Governor is misusing county resources, not because the Auditor- General's report says that; not because we have evidence from IFMIS saying that, no. It is because there is another complaint before EACC saying that. So, you use a complaint as the supporting material for the complaint before you. The third category is that of all the claims made before you, we shall be asking this Senate to seek clarification by way of asking, and we shall be asking this Senate to bear in mind, as it makes a decision, which of those claims shows what action, or inaction, on the part of the Governor. The county government is an entire system of government. A lot of things may happen. A county government driver may be driving and may knock down somebody with the vehicle; that is wrong. The question we will be asking is how do you tie that to the governor? So, of all these claims, we shall be demonstrating to you that there is a failure to show the causal link between the case presented before you and the past one presented before you for removal from office. The fourth category of matters will be what you call - my learned colleague gave me these words - dead matters that have been resurrected for purposes of infusing an element of meaning to this Motion. You will discover that the claims and the supporting material before you will be the same claims and supporting material that were presented before this Senate, a while back as against the same governor and this Senate voted to find that those claims on that material, that very material now coming before you, did not pass the threshold for removal of the governor from office. You will then come across matters that are pending before other constitutional bodies; complaints pending before the courts and complaints pending before EACC, over which no determination has been made that is adverse against the Governor. Then, the sixth category is that you will come across very contradictory claims. Allow me to just demonstrate this by way of example in two cases. When you look at count five of the grounds in support of the Impeachment Motion, you will see a claim of contempt of court. You will see that claim. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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