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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, lastly, I wanted to say something about an issue that we debated for long with Sen. Orengo and other lawyers in this House particularly when we were in the Committee. This is the issue of due process and the process of impeachment. Impeachment in a presidential system is equivalent to a vote of no confidence in a parliamentary system. It is a process that is supposed to check maladministration. It is matters of politics. In that process, the process by Parliament is final. All over the world, whether it is in the United States, Nigeria, South Africa or Kenya, the impeachment process has two stages. The first is the indictment of the officer being impeached. In that process, you collect and investigate the charges, but at that point in time, you do not require the officer in question to appear before that stage because there is a second stage. The second stage which is very important is usually done in other countries by the second chamber. This is actually where there is an actual trial akin to the court room where you call the officer in question to appear before you and the trial continues, you look at the evidence and then you make a final decision. When the second chamber sits to make the final decision, they are like the final Court of Appeal on that decision. Now the courts are saying that there was no due 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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