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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Katwa Kigen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, and hon. Senators. We, first of all, take exception at the statement made by my colleague for the County Assembly saying as if it is a statement of fact, that there were sexual excesses. That is an issue for the courts and probably for this Senate, and so we take exceptions at the attempt to make it as if it is a statement of fact. For avoidance of doubt, we wish to say that there is no police report and there is no determination of that issue. I have three preliminary issues to request your audience on, and the Senate. The first one, is that we did file our documents and a flash disk on Saturday, the 12th. However, it turned out that they were not properly paginated and we have done a properly paginated set of documents and properly arranged the flash disk. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we kindly request and plead with you and the Senate to allow us to replace the improperly paginated documents with a properly paginated one. The contents and the substance remains the same and the same was served on my colleagues. I have had the occasion to have a word with my colleagues for the County Assembly and the general understanding is that subject to your ruling, we are in agreement that we are not contesting the affidavit that they have just introduced - the one dated 13th October, 2024 that my learned friend has referred to. In exchange, they are not contesting the replacement of the wrongly paginated bundle that we filed on Saturday and we brought the corrected one on Sunday the 14th. Mr. Speaker, Sir, other than that, I had indicated that we proposed to raise a preliminary objection to these proceedings and we flagged out three issues we wanted to argue. I kindly request for your audience on that application. The application to raise the preliminary objection is based on your Rule 14 and Rule 30, on issues of materiality and competence of the Motion before you. I pray that 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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