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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is so refreshing listening to a transformed Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki. I beg to second. This Motion is before this House to call upon distinguished Senators to discharge their constitutional duty. On previous occasions, this distinguished House and individual Senators have demonstrated very ably that they can rise to the occasion and discharge their duties with distinction, without fear, favour and prejudice. Today the country looks at this Senate, once again, not because the Governor is question is a habitual offender, but because they county assembly with which he works has found it necessary, prudent, legal and constitutional to go through the motion they have done and discharged their duty by forwarding to this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Senate has many functions, but no function in my view is more trying, raises greater expectations than presiding over the impeachment of a Governor. Like I have said before and, indeed in one of the articles I wrote in today’s newspapers, there is no collective guilt or collective wrong doing by governors. Each case coming to this Chamber shall be dealt with as one case on its merit. In arriving at the team on the Select Committee that we are putting before this House, I want to assure distinguished Senators that there have been deep and wide consultations between both sides of the House, knowing that the distinguished Governor of Embu, my good friend, Mr. Wambora is not before this Senate as a member of any party. He is before this Senate as Governor elected to manage a county to which those he works with think he has not and they have forwarded him to us to handle his case. I want to urge this House that as we finish these proceedings this afternoon, the distinguished Senators on the Committee move with speed to constitute themselves into a proper committee with a Chairperson and a Vice Chairperson and accord Governor Wambora every opportunity to be heard so that justice is not only seen to be done, but manifestly seen to be done. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we do so, I want to enjoin the Senate Majority Leader in his very solid and sober arguments about the relationship between the Legislature and the Judiciary. Time and again, opinions have been voiced. I want to add my voice that nowhere in the world or in a democracy can a judicial officer sit and pen out a ruling or a judgment to injunct the Legislature from carrying out its work. What they can do is to deal with our decisions after the fact to find out whether it was constitutional, whether it offends the Constitution and so on and so forth. 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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