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    "content": "inadvertently say that the Governors can start ignoring MCAs because the Senate will not take action on based on MCAs’ recommendations. The word that should go forward from here regarding matters of impeachment is that we will be fair. Those who are brought before us may not be as clean as Caesar’s wife. However, they may not have violated the Constitution or the law to the extent that they need to be impeached. So, the reason why one Governor or the other may not be impeached is not that they have done everything correctly. However, the degree that they did it and the action they took to address what they did is probably what went on to save them. There are two offices that can be brought before this House for impeachment; that is the office of the Governor and the President of the Republic of Kenya. There are those who say out there that if the President and the Governors can be impeached, then it should follow that Senators and Members of Parliament should be impeached. There should be a possibility that they can be impeached. They forget one small thing that the Office of the President and the Office of the Governor are both executive offices. These are offices that hold huge quantities of funds. They hold Kenya’s taxpayers money that they can use when and if in a manner that they can abuse. In the case of a Senator, he is not capable of using Kshs100. There is no Kshs100 that is given to the Senator for use by the county for construction of roads or hospitals in the counties that we live. There would be no reason to contemplate an issue of impeaching a Senator. Indeed, this is what a Senator would call ab initio . Sen. Mutula Jnr. is my friend in the Committee on ICT and I have been learning a bit of law from him. In doing what we have done as a Senate, in going ahead to say that not every Governor who comes to this House will lose their job, let it be clear that we did not do this because we have already impeached a Governor and, therefore, are trying to balance. There are those out there who are saying that we are doing a balancing act. If ten Governors come here and they are all guilty, the ten will be impeached. Let that be clear. If ten Governors come here and none of them is guilty, let us also be clear that they will not be held accountable for something that they did not do. I saw the Chairman table documents here, files upon files, my feeling was that if we have to photocopy all the documents in front of us and all the paper work with the Chairman, including what has come as a Report, can you imagine the waste of paper and Government resources? I think it should be obvious to the House that we cannot continue printing this quantity of documents in hard copy. I want to take this opportunity to say that it is too late to be copying documents like this. This is pure analogue! We must get to a point where documents are sent to our ipads or computers. We cannot be throwing away documents. This is a lot of money. This is money that can build a whole classroom if it was not being wasted on photocopying. We were sent out there to get documents and I saw Sen. Musila waiting in a massive queue to get massive documents to go and read outside there in the grass. This is not something we can continue to do. Let it be clear to Members that in future, as we get these massive The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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