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    "id": 1469093,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Evans Mawira Kaaria",
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    "content": "Meru. Thereafter, the Governor went ahead and stopped Okolea programmes, which had aggrieved MCAs. She also tried to reach out to me, as the Leader of the Majority Party at that time. I heeded to the call and went and listened to her carefully. She told me the plans she had of inviting all the MCAs to come and work together with her. At that moment, I asked her to give me time as the Leader of the Majority Party to go try to reach out to other Members, so that maybe she could organize a meeting with them and try to bring reconciliation. After I left, I reached out to other MCAs, and they all, especially the leadership of the Assembly, declined to attend a meeting with the Governor. Once I communicated that message back to her, she asked me if she could make our efforts about reaching out, public and state that we had met and I agreed because I was convinced about her genuineness at that time. She went ahead and made that remark that the Majority Leader of the Meru County Assembly had agreed to reconcile and work with her. Immediately thereafter, a meeting was convened by the Majority Whip of the County Assembly, together with the Speaker for the 59 members who were in support of the impeachment process. During the meeting, I was tasked to explain if I was still for the cause of removing the Governor from office because of the statement that the Governor had made. If so, I should apologize to the members because I intended to maybe bring disunity or disarray to their cause. At that point, I stood up and told them that a time had come for every MCA to be given freedom to exercise their democratic right of either to support Governor Kawira Mwangaza or to oppose her. I walked out of that meeting because I declined to apologize or tell them if I was for that cause. Immediately after, a press conference was issued led by the Majority Whip, where they declared they had to do some alignments in the leadership positions of the County Assembly, so that the business of the Assembly would not be disrupted by leaders who had abandoned that cause. Madam Temporary Speaker, at that point, because that was a press conference that was covered nationally, the then Secretary General (SG) of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party nationally, Hon. Cleophas Malala, wrote a letter to me and the Whip indicating that there should be no leadership changes in the positions of the Majority Party. He also invited us for a meeting that we attended in Nairobi City County. During that meeting, majority of Members said that the problem of Meru County was the Majority Leader. It is at that point that I was removed as the Majority Leader of the Majority party in the County Assembly. Other changes were also made and the Deputy Majority Whip was also removed because we were all in support of the Governor of Meru County."
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