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    "content": "The exhibits can also come from Embu County. The real issue is that this is a matter for Kenya. People will be watching very carefully. We are walking a very tight rope because we are supposed to protect devolution. But at the same time, we are also supposed to oversight that devolution. So, we should be seen to be doing both at the same time and walk that tight rope. We should convince Kenyans that we have done it justly. If we do it justly nobody will blame us because we will be doing our job. But there will definitely be huge public interest in this matter. People will be accusing us of trying to roll back devolution because of threatening governors, trying to compete for power and so on. As we do all this, we should be sensitive to the fact that people will be watching and commenting about the interplay which we have seen in the press or who is more powerful than the other and all sorts of things. The responsibility that has been given to us is a heavy one. It is a weighty matter. I have been looking at Article 181 of the Constitution. I have noted this is a very serious matter. It is either a violation of the Constitution or a crime, abuse of office, which is also a crime or gross misconduct which I am not so sure about. That is where the skills and the experience of the hon. Members will be required. If the issue amounts to gross misconduct, what is gross misconduct? That is a grey area on which we will need direction and help. But I pray that this Committee deals with this issue in the interest of Kenya. After this, we might, of course, end up having an avalanche of this in all counties. We might be overwhelmed by so many impeachment proceedings if we treat this issue lightly. But if we set the benchmarks correctly, then it will tell the other assemblers whose responsibility it is to oversight the executive at that level that it is not every other resolution that impeaches a governor. Then we will have governors, assemblies and the Senate acting correctly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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