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    "content": "claiming that the case is in court. If you allow me I will read Article 99(2)(h) which states as follows:- “Unless you are found in accordance with any law to have misused or abused a State office or a public office, or in any way to have contravened Chapter 6--- Let me quote Article 3 because it affects us when people are read the law in a selective manner, or in a politically biased manner. It says:- “A person is not disqualified under Clause 2 unless all possibility of appeal or review of the relevant sentence or decision has been exhausted.” Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a personal attachment to this issue. Just the other day, we were arraigned in court as Members of Parliament from Turkana on some flimsly grounds of inciting people to kill policemen. Now, we have discovered it was their own policemen who did a shoddy job. You can imagine that I can run for an office and you tell me because I was accused unfairly, I should not contest. This is why the Constitution made it absolutely clear. One, you need to be convicted. Two, even if you are convicted, and sentenced to fewer than six months, you can still run for an office. More fundamentally, if you have appealed, until you exhausted the appellate process, nobody should make a determination on whether you are guilty or not. What the selection panel and the Principals did was to judge Mrs. Nzomo as if she was guilty. I hope the Kenyan nation appreciates why this Parliament is here as an institution. Its role is to check on the excesses of the Executive. This is one point we will make to the nation, that the Executive cannot expect to manipulate this Parliament even at the eleventh hour. We will rise to the occasion and we will do it even now. I support."
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