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    "id": 1391985,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Katwa Kigen",
    "speaker_title": "The Counsel for the Deputy Governor",
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    "content": "budget. If that is the case, that it is the Governor, that's our defense. It is not intended to bring into issue the Governor and his wife. It is merely meant to persuade you that, indeed, is not a ground upon which you should impeach the Governor. We would, therefore, be asking you to determine the question of the place of public participation in these proceedings because that is actually a product of public participation. I would probably just want to mention one thing to you. If you look at volume One of the County Assembly’s bundle, on page 41, they have brought to you the product of public participation as they say, and, what was said at Birongo Ward is something that appears in quite a number of other places where public participation occurred. The second bullet states as follows- “The members also lamented that the Deputy Governor does not respect the County First Lady and, therefore, the Members of County Assembly (MCAs) should be allowed to perform their duty of impeaching him.” The public participation that was initiated by the County Assembly in many places stated that unless the Deputy Governor is prepared to go and kneel before the First Lady he should be impeached. We are not under any obligation to kowtow the wife of the Governor. I would also like to invite you to page 36, on the output of the public participation. In Volume One of the County Assembly bundle, page 36, there is input from Masimba Ward. It is said that there were no members of the public at the venue when the secretariat arrived. Therefore, there was no product of the public participation. However - and this is our case - there has been a continuous, generation and fabrication of documents and materials to incriminate the Deputy Governor. There is a letter dated 8th March--- I am afraid the hon. Members might not have this. There is a letter dated 8th March, 2024 written to Hon. Onsare Monda telling him to come and defend himself. It is written by one of your staff members, Mr. Ogoso. He says that some of the people he shall respond to, at page three is Mzee Shamba from Masimba Ward. There is a public participation report from the county stating that nothing happened, yet you certainly have somebody who has been set up to come and say that this is what Masimba Ward is saying. This is part of the long and false fabrication of materials to incriminate the Deputy Governor. Mr. Speaker, Sir, and hon. Senate, for those reasons, we pray you do not expunge Paragraph 48 to the end. Probably at this point I should just move to the preliminary objection and call it a day. Mr. Speaker, Sir, unlike my colleagues I pray for just a few more minutes. Could I request for about 20 minutes, kindly?"
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