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"content": "certain day as it is there in the law. Would you feign sickness and fail to present your nomination papers on that particular day? I can tell you, if you fail to do so, the law will not give you an accommodation. You will be out and there are a lot of decisions on this matter. I want to talk to this Senate very frankly. Senior Counsel, Hon. Paul Muite, was basically giving evidence. He has not told us where, or if he has told us, the medical institution where the Deputy President is. However, for the Deputy President to fail to bring credible evidence before the House that he has been admitted, we do not even have evidence that he has been admitted to a medical institution. We would rely on the evidence from my senior, Senior Counsel, Hon. Paul Muite. That is evidence. However, in practice, I can say without a fear of contradiction, there are many times where people have presented even in medical documents and later on they have been found to be fake, if I may use that word. For the Deputy President, we should have had one of the doctors here, at least, to tell us about his admission and about his condition. Up to 1.15 p.m., the Deputy President was here. He was not evacuated from here in an ambulance. If I can give evidence from the Bar, he went to his office. Again, there is no evidence that he was evacuated in an ambulance. He went to Karen Hospital himself, to check in at the hospital. So, I think our constitutional duty is to live by what the Constitution requires of us. I was looking forward to cross-examine the Deputy President. Unfortunately, the story that has been told does not include cross- examination of the evidence of the Deputy President, which is on record. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are time bound, and as my learned friend, Eric Gumbo, has said, we are prepared to go by the evidence in record. The prejudice is to us. The sickness of the Deputy President is affecting us more because we would want to cross-examine him. However, he has evidence in record, which we cannot test by the way of cross- examination. There is no assurance that on Tuesday, the Deputy President would be here. Finally, we can also say from here that there are many cases that have been filed all over, including in Malindi today that has to do with the proceedings that are going on here. So, I am in a position to say that this health condition in which the Deputy President is - and I sympathize - may be opportunistic in the absence of medical evidence from a doctor."
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