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    "content": "reason why I know Governor Wambora had abdicated because these are things, if he was really interested in knowing what was going on in his county--- In fact, I made the remark when these proceedings were on about what Chinua Achebe said about President Shehu Shagari. That Shehu Shagari was a very good president but he was not living in Nigeria. The things he knew about Nigeria was about another country and not Nigeria. So, Wambora equally, the things he knows about Embu County are not about Embu County. If he knew that it was about Embu County, he would have done something about what was happening right at his door step. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the responsibility of the Committee was not as big as the responsibility of this Senate. The impeachment charges are before the Senate. They were not before the Committee. It is the Senate sitting in Plenary that is going to decide whether to impeach Governor Wambora or not. The duty of the Committee was to find out and establish whether the charges were substantiated and what could we do in the circumstances when the Auditor-General comes to give evidence and seven accounts, he enumerated what had gone on in procurement and abuse office. When he was finally asked a question: Whom do you consider responsible and accountable for this mess in Embu County, he said, the Governor. So, Governor Wambora has no alternative but to go home. If he was doing what his county secretary was doing, and I think she was not doing it for good reason, I was thinking that that lady is a cross between Rasputin and Maria Antoinette in the French Revolution. I think Governor Wambora had completely abdicated his job to the county secretary; completely. If you ask anybody any question, it all ended up with the county secretary. Although these are not in the charges finally, because the chairman has talked about the charges on the question of responsibility, accountability and the specifics, I would say that additionally sending Governor Wambora is not a matter that will weigh on your mind because he had already abdicated. He had already abdicated because if you have been given the executive authority to run a county and you leave it to the county secretary who is not a Member of the executive other than a person who attends that meeting for purposes of writing minutes, I can tell you, in those circumstances, the Governor must go home. Finally in order to conclude, the thing that happened was that when they were found out on this matter of maize, the company that had supplied the maize, Agrotech Company - instead of chasing that company, they went to a company called Mosanto, although they are the manufacturers but not even a letter of demand has been written to the supplier to tell them you gave us the wrong maize. Instead they went to the manufacturer. If you go to the manufacturer who does not know that these things were being taken to Embu County; for them, they were just supplying the materials or the goods through the supplier who was buying on behalf of Embu County. So, there was a hidden agenda to protect the local company which was supplying this maize. These compounded the whole criminal and fraudulent activities. So, I am happy about this and some people were telling us that if you do this for Embu nearly all governors are going to end up in the Senate, I am saying that even if all of them come here on account of things that we can substantiate, why not? They are safe from us so long as they are doing a good job for Kenyans; when they know that service to 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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