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"content": "After we moved from this Senate, even though the Senate dismissed the charges, it gave the Governor many pieces of free advice and lessons on how to run the county. After we left here, there was a brief honeymoon of peace in Meru lasting only a few weeks. This honeymoon was characterised by courtesy calls from various leaders pledging in public to support the Governor and promises by the Governor that she would turn over a new leaf and Meru would lastly be peaceful, orderly and running in accordance with the Constitution. When we came here, I recall prefacing our presentation with a story of a leader in Europe who that time we were telling you, had waged wars on all four directions of the compass, including North, South, East and West. On each direction, this leader was at war with another country and another civilization for no good reason. Today, we preface the Motion before you with yet another allegory from Europe about prodigy of a man from Russia called Kondraty Ryleyev. This was a multi-talented Russian citizen who was a poet, publisher, oralist, and military officer. He was an embodiment of all the nice things a single man can achieve in a single lifetime. He was implicated in a treasonable act called the Decembrist Uprising of 1825 in Russia, which sought to depose the Russian Monarch. Those days the monarchs were called ‘Sirs’ from office. After he was convicted of these offences, he was sentenced to public execution by quartering. This is a method of execution that involved tying the four limbs to a horse and the horse is driven in different directions or cutting the body in four pieces and exposing the bowels. Pleas were made to Sir. Nicholas who was the Monarch, that this was too macabre method of execution. Even though the sentence could not be vacated, the King was implored to impose a more humane way of execution. The king agreed that Kondraty Ryleyev could be executed by hanging which, I think is the method in our laws for executing people. On the day of execution and in those days, executions were done in public stadiums like Nyayo Stadium full of people and spectators. So, on the day of execution, this gentleman was led to the gallows, crowd watching in the full stadium. He was supposed to fall so that your neck breaks and he dies--- The rope broke and Kondraty Ryleyev fell to the ground. After a few seconds of dizziness, he dusted himself, addressed the gathering telling the crowd, “You see in Russia, they do not know how to do anything properly. They do not even know how to make a rope.” We are submitting that by the Governor persisting in the very series of misconduct that brought us here one year ago, the only change being these particulars, she is telling you, you see in Kenya, the Senate does not know how to do anything properly, including impeaching a rogue Governor. Anyway, after this guy fell to the ground, in Russia this was considered a message from the gods that they did not intend the prisoner to be executed. The King was allowed to grant a pardon if this type of miracle happened. So, a messenger was sent on horseback to the Monarch in a large white horse to tell him about this miracle and request him as was the custom in Russia, to sign the pardon. 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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