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    "id": 1367472,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "impeachment hearings of Governor Kawira Mwangaza, by way of Plenary as opposed to Committee. We are altering the Calendar of the House so that on Tuesday, 8th November 2023, we sit from 9 a.m. up to 1 p.m., and from 2.30 p.m. until the time we will conclude the witness hearings. On Wednesday, we will do the same as well, up to the time, we will conclude the vote and we bring a closure to the matter. I request all colleague Senators to readjust their diaries and be present in the House. You chose this route to listen to these charges, therefore, make sure that you participate in it. I would particularly wish to see the full participation and the presence of our colleague Senators, who for one reason or the other, like Sen. Sifuna, held the view that a Plenary trial is not as thorough as a Committee trial. I would like them to experience it first-hand. After that, we can have a conversation in future on which is the best way. I am impressed and happy that after this exercise, the Senators of this Session will have experienced an impeachment trial by Plenary and by Committee up to the level of a report consideration. It will be impossible to say that everybody will get a chance to serve in a Committee unless you impeach ten governors or something of the sort. On this one, each and every Senator, the 67 of us in this House, will have an opportunity to listen, follow through, seek clarification and so forth. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not intend to be long because this is a simple Procedural Motion. I expect we dispense it off quickly and revert back to the Order Paper as it was. With those remarks, I wish to request the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Justice (Rtd.) Steward Madzayo, to second this Motion."
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