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    "id": 1589352,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senate cannot be reduced to a theatre of absurdity. The question before us in this Motion is not merely a procedural question; it is a deep constitutional question that must be answered. Mr. Speaker, Sir, just imagine if you were to carry this precedent and allow this Motion to go to full hearing. What stops a Speaker of another County Assembly from conveying a Message to you, even without any writing? What would stop them? We have been told by the Senate Majority Leader, who has been very sensational here when he was speaking, that we want to keep this Motion at this level. That is actually not true. I disagree with the Senate Majority Leader. If the Members of the County Assembly have numbers, let them go back, bring a good Motion, and we shall prosecute it. The Senate has not said that we are not ready to prosecute this particular Motion. The Senator from Mombasa County has also alluded that we should deal with this Motion. That, if Governor Guyo is impeached, he can go to court. The prescription that the Senator from Mombasa County has given is, let us take poison, and then we can take milk later. That shall not happen and we cannot do it. We cannot take poison, as we are seeing. This Motion is defective. There was no sitting by the County Assembly and, therefore, there is no recourse to it. I would want to say, while being careful with the words that I will use, so that I am not disrupted by many people who want to disrupt us as we are speaking here--- I do not like the leadership style of President William Ruto, but the Constitution does not give me a recourse. The Constitution does not allow me to, and has no room for my feelings. It does not have any room for what I feel about his leadership. The Constitution allows me to only wait until 2027, painfully. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, even for the Members of the County Assembly, theirs is not a long wait, as mine and Sen. Wambua. Theirs is just going back. In fact, in my opinion, if they were to just go back to the County Assembly and process this Motion as it is supposed to be, we cannot say that this Motion has been lost, so they have to wait for six months because there was no Motion and sitting, anyway. They can sit tomorrow, process The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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