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"content": "So, we should not move on with this matter with any sense of feeling that there is a bigger hand out there trying to micro-manage the conduct of the National Assembly and the Senate. Indeed, we assemble here today knowing our legal duties, our constitutional duties and how to handle matters that come before us in such fair and just a manner as our prayer says that those whose matters are placed before us will go away knowing that they got justice. I want to encourage the Committee to take time and not to be clouded with the fact that they heard the case of Mr. Wambora a few months ago. They should listen to him, his witnesses and witnesses against him in a fair and open minded manner and bring us a decisions that is not only precedent setting, but a decision that will tell Kenyans that, yes, any Governor out there who falls prey to his county assembly still has a higher calling at the Senate to be heard fairly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to encourage that the public debate going on in the country about the status and the position and safety of Governors is misplaced. Any blanket condemnation of Governors is idle. Indeed, any talk that this Senate will impeach Governor so and so, is equally idle. We can only impeach a Governor on evidence brought before us and on the conviction by those we are entrusting to deal with the matter, that indeed, a case is made out beyond any doubt. I want to urge that as it has been said, and rightly so, that this matter is coming before us at a time when there is a lot to talk about. I want to urge the Senate that if we do not get it right, right now, we may not get it right tomorrow. We must tell the Senate that will come after us and tell the Governors that may fall prey to those they work with that when they come here, they come knowing that they are going to a bastion of justice. They are going to a bastion where they will get fair hearing. They are going to a bastion where they know that having been heard fairly, the decision we make will determine their future. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it goes without saying that, indeed, devolution being new in the country, it has its trying moments. There are those Governors who have been tempted to fall prey to the massive sources we are placing before them. We are not sending any message to them that will do the same to them, but when the writing is on the wall, those who can read can read and those who can understand can understand. I hope that this is not going to be Senate whose primary function is dealing with impeachments; we want to deal with other constructive issues as well, but we shall not shy away from meeting the expectations of Kenyans. That where there is a wrong doing, it matters not that you come from the same county with the offending Governor, it matters not that you come from the same party with the offending Governor, it matters not that you went to university with the same Governor and it matters not that you socialize with the offending Governor. The Constitution, the law and the interests of the people of Kenya run supreme to all those partisan interests. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is with that, that I fully second and support the Motion and urge the House that we should not engage in diversionary issues and demanding to know why we were left out of the list because any one Senator here as the capacity, the ability, 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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