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    "id": 436529,
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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, permit me to second the Motion by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale who has ably tackled the issues we have dealt with as a Committee. Owing to constraints of time on my part, I have no benefit of the time that the Mover of the Motion had. I will quickly rush through a few issues. The situation in Embu is very sad. It is a situation that must be corrected. The problem in Embu is about leadership. As I will be demonstrating, a leadership problem is something that the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, tries to address. Unfortunately, those who are elected, particularly the CEO of Embu County, did not live to the expectations of the Constitution, 2010. Let me start with the argument that was made by the counsel for the Governor before us that we should disqualify ourselves. Disqualification of a committee, tribunal, court or a judge happens when a judge satisfies himself that a situation of bias will ensue. We sat and agreed that we were dealing with a different case. The counsel for the Governor erroneously tried to drive the Committee to think that we were a court of appeal and that we were sitting on an appeal. It is our considered opinion that we were dealing with a different matter. There was a different matter that came to this House during Valentine’s Day which was disposed of by this House. We were dealing with a different matter and with a Committee that was established by this House. It is understandable that if you are facing the situation that Governor Wambora is facing, you would, definitely, engage in a forum shopping. It is in public knowledge that the Governor has gone to courts in Embu, Kirinyaga, Nairobi, Nyeri and he even wanted to select the Committee that would listen to his case. We, as a Committee, rejected that argument believing that if we had entertained the kind of argument that the Governor was making through his counsel, we would have entertained a thought that even this Senate 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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