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    "id": 1485515,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. James Orengo, SC",
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    "content": "required to apply the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. This is by dint of Article 10(1). It should not be lost to anybody that the application of the Constitution in decision- making is entirely in the province of the courts. This Senate on this issue, you are seized of this matter. It is an exclusive jurisdiction that is granted to the Senate to undertake a trial for the impeachment and removal of a deputy governor or governor or a Deputy President or President. This is an exclusive jurisdiction that even the courts have spoken about many times. The courts can intervene in limited and justified occasions that merit their intervention. However, it should never be lost that this is the trial court, if I may put it that way. We also come here knowing that the Senate is a repository of the law with regard to impeachments. All the cases involving the impeachment of governors and deputy governors that have gone to the courts have involved the participation of the Senate. If we were ever to talk about a repository of the law regarding the removal of state officers by way of impeachment, it is the Senate. It should not be lost historically from comparative studies in various jurisdictions why this role in our constitutional design was left to the Senate. It was a decision by the framers of our Constitution that it should be an exclusive matter to be dealt with by the Senate. Having said that, I was advised by the leadership of our National Assembly who are our clients, to read a certain passage of the Bible. I have a copy here. I had to carry this Bible. I read the Bible a lot to myself, but never on this kind of occasion. This is the Book of Exodus 22;22-24. I will read the St. James Version, which I prefer because of the language and from the Living Bible whose English is more appropriate – King James Version– “Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child."
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