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    "id": 1483538,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1483538/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Katwa Kigen",
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    "content": "I am being asked to change the microphone. Mr. Speaker, Sir, and hon. Senators, in the case before you, the impeachment was passed with 31 votes. Therefore, we argue that 31 is not the same as 31.3. If you combine the use of the word ‘at least’ in Section 33 of the County Government Act, with the threshold being 31.3, when you scale down to 31 as opposed to 31.3, then you have fallen short of the requirement of the statute, requiring at least two-thirds. A total of 16 of the MCAs as per the HANSARD proceedings which have been availed to you, in volume one, pages 82 to 161 did not support the impeachment of the governor. The significant pages would be pages 160 to 161. The Speaker of the county assembly then, wrestled with the question, whether 31 amounts to two-thirds. He then went on to say, on page 160- “My position is fathomed by the fact that we have customarily and by practice since the inception of the devolution, taken one-third of the Members of this Assembly, Kericho Assembly, to be 16, meaning the balance of the Members being two-thirds is equivalent to 31.” Mr. Speaker, Sir and hon. Senators, I will show that the Speaker of the County Assembly was wrong and misrepresented the facts. Having said that it is only 31 out of 47 who---"
}