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    "id": 1465063,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndegwa Njiru",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I seek your guidance and leave before we make our address on Rule 10 of the Standing Orders and Article 50 of the Constitution, in respect to a preliminary issue that has arisen and Rule 14 as well. Any preliminary questions or issues raised by the County Assembly or the Governor shall be argued for not more than 30 minutes, unless the Speaker otherwise directs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I seek your guidance in respect to a communication that was done to this House by the County Assembly via a letter dated 17th August, 2024 and another one dated 18th August, 2024. In the letter dated 17th August, 2024, we sought the indulgence of this House to exercise its powers to summon a witness who was not within our ability; one CPA Virginia Kawira Miriti, who is currently the CEO of Meru County Public Service Board (CPSB). In our letter, we laid out the basis upon which our application is premised and also sought that she comes with any relevant information that relates to the proceedings before this House this morning. Currently, Virginia works at the County Government of Meru and she is the CEO who should speak to the various issues raised in our Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this means that she is an integral infrastructure in respect to laying the case and the basis of our Motion for impeachment, to the extent that if her availability is not secured, we will end up prejudicing the case for the County Assembly. I also seek your guidance because we were served with the documents and responses from the Governor’s response team, and as correctly put and captured by your address this morning, we noted that there were some serious issues that had been raised. Some of them bordered between criminality or forgery of documents. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in that respect, we noticed from the Governor’s response, a letter from Ms. Linda Gakii Kiome, the Legal Advisor to the Governor as at 23rd February, 2024. We equally noted a purported letter from Jacob Kirari, the Clerk of the County Assembly. This letter is purportedly received by the Speaker of the County Assembly of Meru."
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