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    "id": 1589085,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Eric Theuri",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I will take a minute or two in view of the substantive responses that have come from my colleague, Mr. Ongoya. The only question I have to respond to is one that was posed by Sen. Thang’wa. At the time when the Governor was invited, he was in his office and at 9.00 a.m. or at no time was there a sitting. So, the Governor could not attend any sitting because none was held. A question was posed by Sen. Osotsi with regards to Article 159 of the Constitution. My answer is that the question we are raising is not one of technicalities. It goes to the root of the dispute that is before the Senate. There must be a resolution and in the absence of a resolution, the jurisdiction of the Senate has not been properly invoked. Therefore, it is not a technical procedural issue that can be cured by Article 159(2) of the Constitution, but rather, it goes into the question of the merit and whether the authority of the Senate has been properly invoked. We have submitted that has not happened. I think those were the only questions posed to our side that had not been responded to. Hon. Senators, let me just remind you that the question with regards to the sitting is one that is extremely critical and our position still remains that there was no valid sitting of the 18th or the 26th June. That is abundantly clear when you listen to the responses that are coming from the Assembly. You do not know on which side of the mouth they are speaking from. In one instance, they have said that the HANSARD Office was destroyed and, in another instance, the HANSARD is a true record of the reflection of the proceedings that were held in the House. So, that is the question that we have submitted on and we urge this Hon. Senate to find that there are no proceedings known in law. Therefore, there cannot be a resolution that has been presented to this Hon. Senate to deliberate on. I rest my case."
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