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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "from that? This may be a systemic government problem beyond Meru County. Therefore, there is a need for proper interventions by legislative and oversight institutions such as this to provide systemic solutions. What can we do to ensure that Integrated Payroll and Personnel Database (IPPD) numbers of staff are processed much faster to conduce an environment where payrolls are run without the necessity to resort to manual payrolls as we wait for IPPD numbers? You will empathize with the Governor, but if her government were to keep kindergarten teachers without salary for eight months, pending processing of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Database (IPPD) numbers by another government institution, that may as well be an unfair labour practice, which will also violate the Constitution. I have addressed the question of employing a bloated workforce. As a matter of fact, the Governor has not employed a bloated workforce. This matter has been dealt with before in a previous impeachment Motion. Evidence has been laid here of the Governor's office rejecting other staff being sent to her office. I beseech you to keep that fact at the back of your mind as you make this decision. Finally, hon. Senators, on the allegation of paying Kiambi Christus Manyara, a Public Communications Officer in the office of the Governor, full salary while in remand, I would like you in good conscience, to make a decision whether governors pay staff. Make a decision whether in the government organogram, a governor pays staff. The appointment letter of this particular staff shows that this is actually a staff of the County Public Service Board. That is the appointing and disciplining authority; so that, where a staff who is charged in court is supposed to be either suspended or interdicted and relevant communication made to the payroll team, that would be the function of the County Public Service Board, which is an independent board established as such under the County Governments Act. To blame the Governor for the failure or omission of an independent board, which if the Governor sought to interfere with, may as well be a ground of impeaching her, that will be putting this Governor in a grave dilemma. We beseech you not to put this Governor or any other governor in such a position of dilemma. The Supreme Court of Kenya, in the case of Sonko versus the County Assembly of Nairobi City, set a principle, and I quote- “Though a political process, impeachment is sanctioned by the Constitution and the law, and it is not a platform to settle political scores.” It is well within the rights of the Governor to adduce evidence before you to show what political machinations are there, so that you can contextualize her allegations that these are processes to settle political scores. Make no mistake, the Governor has set out here that she is a leader like any other leader. That, she is subject to oversight and sanction like any other leader, but let it be fair oversight, sanction, and not be politically motivated sanction. A side issue has been raised here that this Governor is waving a gender card. When the Governor was brought here in September last year, she told this House that she was a victim of misogyny. She did not stop here. She played video clips for you to see and feel with your own senses. 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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