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"content": "As Sen. Thang’wa said before he was stopped, we were dealing with two illegal groups and I think we made those observations. The first Mr. Temporary Speaker, was suspended, but there is nothing called suspension. Therefore, the Members of the Assembly were wrong to do the suspension. That was the first thing that we noted. The second thing is that they seem to have noted that because after suspending and crudely ejecting the Speaker, they were called to go to court and they went to apologize. It was after their apology that they came back and did the right thing - to impeach. According to the Standing Orders of Nyamira, which are like our Standing Orders, the Assembly has a right to impeach. During the impeachment, they even invited the Speaker and allowed Okero to defend himself. After the defense and after it was done procedurally, he was impeached procedurally. What happened and which surprised the committee, is the fact that at the point of being impeached, this Speaker who had been impeached, went to court and when he was given a small breather, although there was no ruling because we went through the court statements and there was nothing giving a stay, took advantage and suspended the clerk. That is how he came up with his own clerk and a parallel group started emerging. If you read the report, at the same time, after the Assembly had impeached successfully and according to the Standing Orders, they elected the Deputy Speaker to be the Speaker. Remember, the Deputy Speaker is a member of the county assembly. So, we are dealing with another illegality, because he was elected when he was still an MCA. Again, the Committee observed that we are now dealing with two illegal leaders. The impeached Speaker started holding his meetings because he could not be allowed to come to the premises by the MCAs who had elected their own Speaker. If you look at the recommendations and I will go straight to them, so that the committee is not blamed for the things that they did not do. If you read our observations properly, we have brought issues out, but if you go to the recommendation, I dare say I am the one who laid the report in this House on the 17th April, 2025. We have been blamed for 45 days, but we brought this report in 17 days. On 17th April, is when I laid the report on the Table. It is this House that delayed so the 45 days do not belong to us. We did our work within 17 days. We laid the report and we are waiting for our recommendations to be either accepted or rejected. These meetings should have taken place soon after the 17th. For that reason, Sen. Omogeni - and they are disrupting him now - it should come out very clearly that since we laid the report on the Table of the House on the 17th April, we cannot talk about 45 days. We gave our report on time. After giving the report on time, we gave two very strong recommendations, which no one is referring to in this House. Please do not blame the Committee for what they did not do. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what did we say in recommendation number one? We said pursuant to Section 7(b)(2) of the County Governments Act; whereas the sitting"
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