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    "id": 1371785,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "Although this may not exactly fall under this particular Act that we are trying to amend, it is probably under the Parliamentary Service Commission Act. For this particular purpose and now that we are dealing with the devolution and serious money involved and most probably from the recommendations of Parliament, a governor or an officer in the county government can be prosecuted. In my own opinion, if Sen. Osotsi or any of us finds it good, we can amend it further to enhance the powers we have. The security wing that we have can also be enhanced in a way that the speaker can order our own police so that either Serjeant-at-Arms or the police officers who work with us. Of course, if it is a police officer, it goes directly to the Inspector General of Police whom we could also summon. One of the things the House can do is to move proceedings against that officer, including impeachment. However, impeachment goes into a different realm of the Constitution. Probably the Constitution is tied to this. These are some of the proposals we need to have so that if a governor is contemptuous of this House, it is equivalent to them being contemptuous of their own duties in their respective counties. Something akin to impeachment could be useful so that a governor knows if he is summoned and is not cooperating, but becomes a hostile witness, this House can find him not fit to hold office. The House can probably convene itself on a trial within a trial and impeachment proceedings ensue for this governor. Whether they have been found by the police or not, this House could pass such a sentence. I think it is in such a way that we have teeth enough to bite. However, that probably means an amendment of the Constitution and other Acts like the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), so that we have a police wing under the command of the Speaker of the Senate or Speaker of the National Assembly. That then gives us direct power to be able to deal with the matter. So, this could be good in the next amendment of the Constitution but for now, for the purposes of this debate and what we have before us, the fine is appropriate."
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