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"speaker_name": "(1) Gross Violation of the Constitution or any other law",
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"content": "By virtue of the Deputy Governor requesting and receiving a bribe of Kshs800,000, he is in breach of the provisions of Article 232, which obligates public officers to observe the values and principles of public service that include high standards of professional ethics, fair competition, and merit as the basis of appointments and promotions, and Article 73(2)(d) of the Constitution that requires all state officers to be accountable to the public for their decisions and actions. The Deputy Governor, Hon. (Dr.) Robert Onsare Monda violated Articles 10, 73, 75, and 232 of the Constitution, which binds state officers while discharging their duties in offices inter alia. The Gusii Water and Sanitation Company (GWASCO), advertised for various job vacancies in April, 2023, and the said Deputy Governor alerted Mr. Dennis Mokaya's father that he could secure his son a job upon paying a bribe of Kshs800,000 only upon his shortlisting and being interviewed for the post. The Deputy Governor used his office to improperly confer a benefit to himself when he solicited a sum of Kshs800,000 shillings from one Mr. Dennis Mokaya and his family in the pretext of securing for him a job for the said post of commercial manager of GWASCO, an entity of the Kisii County government. The Deputy Governor received a sum of Kshs799,000 through the M-Pesa platform as follows: the first tranche on 28th May, 2023 of Kshs249,000, sent in three tranches of Kshs150,000, Kshs49,000, and Kshs50,000 by Mr. Dennis Mokaya Mosati on Mobile phone No.0725487300 to the Deputy Governor's Safaricom line being 0711860700. The second one was Kshs260,000 to the Deputy Governor's Safaricom line being 0711860700 and the last tranche in the sum of Kshs300,000 which was delivered to his offices in Gusii Stadium in cash. In an attempt to influence the award of a contract of employment to Mr. Dennis Mokaya, the Deputy Governor sent via M-Pesa a sum of Kshs100,000 to the Managing Director, GWASCO, in order to influence her to employ the said Mr. Dennis Mokaya, which request was not acceded to by the Managing Director, GWASCO, and the money returned via M-Pesa to the Deputy Governor. While realising that the Deputy Chief Executive Authority vests in the Deputy Governor, was there need for the Deputy Governor to grease the palms of the Managing Director of GWASCO to give Mr. Dennis Mokaya the said post? Mr. Dennis Mokaya complained to the County Assembly to intervene in its oversight capacity. Mr. Dennis Mokaya thereafter registered a complaint and recorded a statement with EACC and submitted, among other documents, the advertisement from GWASCO on the vacant post to be filled, his letter of application for the job, the invitation letter from GWASCO to attend the interview, and his M-Pesa Statement for the month of May 2023, detailing the transfer of the Kshs249,000 to the Deputy Governor. Despite this huge payment made, Mr. Dennis Mokaya and his family never secured the job. On informing the Deputy Governor that he would be forced to make a formal complaint to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), on the matter, the 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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