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    "id": 1470488,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "I will not read them save just to summarize that these are the multiple correspondence between the office of the Governor and the office of the Clerk of the County Assembly. There is no doubt, distinguished Senators, that the Governor nominated persons to these offices. If the Governor did not furnish sufficient particulars, the County Assembly had the option of rejecting those names; just consider and reject them, so that there is no jam in the system, so to speak. What has happened here is that for more than one year, the County Assembly has engaged the Governor's office in correspondence, but failed to make a decision on the chairpersons of these boards. There is nothing the Governor can do without the County Assembly first making a decision one way or the other. The law, for example, requires that ambassadors and Cabinet Secretaries be appointed by the President upon approval by the National Assembly. If the President was to forward names of Cabinet Secretaries to the National Assembly, then the National Assembly takes one year engaging the President in correspondence on those names without making a decision on them, then eventually moves a motion to impeach the President for failure to appoint, that is malice in the extreme. I have reflected on the various categories of malice; I submit respectfully that this would fall into the category of malice of the highest order. This is a teaching aid in malice. It is inconceivable that there can be a higher grade of malice than this. You have been told that the Governor has failed to implement the recommendations/resolutions of the County Assembly. You were taken through the letter by the Clerk claiming to be forwarding a resolution of the County Assembly. In fact, when you look at that letter, it says that the HANSARD is also enclosed. We have asked for that HANSARD and resolution and it has not been presented to you. The question is; how would you impeach the Governor on the strength of such an allegation? More importantly for me, questions were put here to a number of witnesses to show who that report of the Committee of the Assembly is addressed to. That report was addressed to the petitioners, not the Governor. Who was that report copied to? That report was copied to the various officers who allegedly the petitioners had sought to be removed from office one by one. That report was neither addressed nor copied to the Governor. Now, you are told to make a finding that the Governor failed to implement that report that was neither addressed nor copied to her. As a matter of fact, can we say that in accordance with the law, the County Assembly of Meru has established this fact. I repeat, it is not in my place to make that determination, it is in your place distinguished Senators, to make that determination. I invite you to make that determination with this factual matrix in your mind, so that you vote in good conscience that a governor, who is neither the addressee of a letter nor copied in the letter, can be removed from office on an allegation of failure to implement the contents of that letter. Factual matters on the dismissal of Dr. Ntoiti Paul Mwaki, Kenneth Kimathi Mbaye and Joseph Kathure Mberia have arisen in addition to the principle matters of pendency of court cases in them. To the factual question whether these people have been dismissed from office, the CECM in charge of Public Service has been here and adduced The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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