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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "Motion that has been approved by the County Assembly, is it just any motion or a valid motion? If there is information before you that the Motion is invalid for any reason, what is the precedent that has been set by this Senate? It is against that background that I wish to draw this Senate's attention to its resolution found from page 136 of Volume No.4 of the Governor's documents. This was the determination of the proposed removal from office by impeachment of the Governor of Kericho County, hon. (Dr.) Erick Kipkoech Mutai. On that occasion, the validity of the resolution was questioned on the ground that the Motion had not met the threshold. Rightly, this House found that it could not move a step further because the validity of a Motion is an important precondition to the carrying out of the trial process on the Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, similarly, by parity of reasoning, today, the validity of another Motion has been impugned on two grounds. Firstly, there was no sitting known to law of the County Assembly of Isiolo to approve the Motion. Secondly, in any event, a court of competent jurisdiction has made a finding that whatever came from the County Assembly of Isiolo is null and void, and of no legal consequences. Will you, in the face of the precedents set by previous Speakers’ rulings and by the resolution in the case of Kericho County Governor's case proceed to trial on that understanding? We beseech you with humility to find that there is no Motion known to law before you and thereby down your tools. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I humbly submit and rest the Governor's submissions on that question of the preliminary objections. I reserve our 10 minutes for a rebuttal from this side once the County Assembly has finished their response. I thank you."
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