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"content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity as well to support this Motion and, indeed, echo the fact that the Senators who have been selected for this task are up to it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in supporting the Motion, I also want to urge that, as the Senate Majority Leader said, let only justice be our defender. I urge the Members who are going to be selected to this Committee to ignore a lot of the issues that will come to them. I can foresee canvassing that will come from various quarters. I would urge that the Members ignore that. Since we cannot gag the other members of the public from discussing this matter, there will be many comments and commentaries in the media. It will be important for the Committee to ensure that the opinions that are expressed in the media and elsewhere will not be the basis upon which they will make a decision. Only the facts in front of them should be the determining factor, whether indeed, the matter before them will go one way or another. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is instructive that we have got 11 Members of the Committee, just one short of the 12 that are in the Bible. It is only that they are not a “Jesus committee” and that is the only reason that they are 11, otherwise, they would have been 12 Members. But I have no doubt in my mind that these people hold the whole Senate in their hands, in terms of the image that the Senate will carry from now henceforth. The Senate is under test. The test is going to determine whether the future Governors and Deputy Governors, the people of Embu and Kenya will have faith in the House. Indeed, the decision that we are going to make and the manner in which we make it is going to impact on not just the system that we have in our country, but in Kenya as a respected nation and country where due process and law reign supreme. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the United States of America, when they form a jury, sometimes they ask it to go into a session where they can read or hear nothing. We are simply asking our Select Committee to act as a jury and close their ears to anything else that can influence their decision. They should not listen to the politics that might be around the decision, but only the facts that might be around the decision. They should not look at the impact of their decision on politics, but on justice only, so that when the decision comes to us, at the end of the session that they will have had, we will have made a decision that carries the weight that is higher than that 11 people who are in that Committee. It is a significance that is so high, that we must be very careful as we proceed forward as a Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also urge the Members that will be approved to be in this Committee to ensure that even if this is a quasi-judicial process, as my colleagues have said, there are also other very important matters, as raised by Sen. Billow, that will inform the decision that will be made, particularly in matters of finance and propriety as The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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