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    "content": "governors. We want to make sure that if charges are brought here and are not authenticated, we shall not confirm them. In the same breath, we must tell governors firmly that this House is not going to sit and watch them ridicule this House after a process has been undertaken here. I am saying that because in the last process, I sat as a Member of the Committee and this House announced the resolution of the House about the impeachment of the Governor for Embu; but since that time, the Governor has engaged in an endless campaign to ridicule this House. The following day, he was in the press saying that he is not going to be bound by an illegal process. As much as we want to be seen to be fair, it is not going to be at the expense of the jurisdiction and the mandate of this House. How do we impeach a governor after a full hearing of 11 distinguished Senators and the resolution is adopted by a full House and then the following day, he says that he is still the Governor of Embu and he does not recognize the process in the Senate? He also said that he was impeached illegally. We want to be fair and balanced in all the matters that will be brought here about impeachment. We want to dispense justice as it should be. If governors expect this House to be rational, they should also respect us, either singularly or in plural. This message must go to them very clearly. We have not heard a single voice of any governor including from the Council of Governors, saying that the impeachment of Governor Wambora was a legitimate, legal process undertaken by the Senate. They should pronounce themselves on this matter but up to today, we have not heard a single voice from any of them. Does that silence mean that they also conform or agree to what the Governor of Embu is doing? I just want to take it a little further: How can we let that process bend towards intimidation? We will not go towards speculation but every news channel in this country has been airing the kidnapping or disappearance of the Speaker of Embu County. We do not want to speculate, but we cannot say for sure what happened. I hear that he was found but how can we rule out the fact that the reasons for his disappearance are political? How can we comprehend even for a moment that after such a legal process, it is possible for a legislator to disappear in a country like this one for three or four days without being found? That is not a matter that can be taken lightly. It amounts to intimidation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, how then can we guarantee and justify ourselves that after you, Mr. speaker, pronounce yourself on this matter, God forbid, that we shall not be told that you have disappeared? So, as a House, we have to be firm if we do not want people to play politics or even to ridicule this House."
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