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    "id": 1392017,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wilkins Ochoki",
    "speaker_title": "The Counsel for the Deputy Governor",
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    "content": "In any case, the House needs to know the genesis of the problems in Kisii County. What exactly is on trial? It is not common that the honorable Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) can wake up one morning and determine that a deputy governor who was elected should just go home. What we want to bring out is the genesis of the problem. Very briefly, allow me just address preliminary point two within a minute, because my senior, Mr. Katwa Kigen, has addressed one. Hon. Speaker, you noticed, and the Hon. Deputy Governor agrees that Article 181 of the Constitution, Section 33 of the County Governments Act and Standing Orders No.s60 to 64 of the Kisii County Assembly Standing Orders, allow for the impeachment of a Governor and a Deputy Governor. However, some timelines are provided. You will notice that in the County Assembly of Kisii--- I refer the hon. House to page five of the documents titled “DG”. You will notice that at page five of the bundle, there is a document titled notice of Motion that is dated 13th February, 2024. That document was the Motion that was brought to the House by the Hon. Wickliffe Siocha. Somehow, it mutated and by the time it was being brought again to the House on 21st February, we now had another document, which starts at page six of that document titled DG. You will get that the Deputy Governor was defending himself on two documents dated two different dates. Even then, based on the document on page five that was received in the County Assembly on 13th February, Standing Order 60-64 provides that the Motion ought to have been heard within 10 days. Whereas we do not want to bring out substantial procedural issues in this House, but you will consider and look at the timelines within which the county assembly sat and you will notice that they sat and determined that Motion beyond the 10 days that is provided for in the Senate. We will explain and you will notice that this is beyond the character of the DG. This is all politics. It is all about the hard and tough questions that the DG is asking. That, we promised to deliver to the people of Kisii County and we are not delivering. Upon asking those very simple questions, he is now being brought to you and you are being told to send him home. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Allow us very kindly, because I believe I did not take a lot of time, to bring in Hon. Osoro, our colleague, to take only two minutes to finish up and give a final brief on our opening remarks."
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