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    "id": 1391940,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, with the greatest respect to all the Senior Counsel who have spoken before me, I believe that this is a quasi-judicial proceeding. The Counsel for the County Assembly is very much in order to require that a ruling be made on the preliminary request. The only thing I fault them for is being too verbose on a very simple request. A request has been made pursuant to Rule 10 of these proceedings, that a witness be summoned by this House. We need to make a decision after hearing from the team for the Deputy Governor on whether there is going to be any prejudice if this gentleman called David Haggai Oyagi is summoned. That is a matter that has to be dispensed with before we hear opening remarks. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the second request is expunging of certain paragraphs that are being claimed not to be relevant. That is all this counsel needed to say without going into too many stories because we would want to get into the meat of the argument. Mr. Speaker, Sir, preliminary matters must be dealt with at the preliminary point so that it will set the tone on what we are going to hear and what we are not going to hear. I request that the House makes a determination on the request to summon this gentleman. If it is after hearing the counsel for the Deputy Governor, then we make a decision on the other question. Whether we want to expunge those paragraphs now, or we wait until we see the irrelevance, then we expunge them at that particular point. That is the guidance that I wanted to give the House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for the opportunity."
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