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    "id": 438205,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
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        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also want to add my voice in congratulating the Committee that presented this massive Report to us. Just before I give my sentiments, I want to accept and agree that it is time that we turned to something else other than the analogue. This is very punishing because we were given an hour to go through it and it is not possible for one to interrogate this massive document with that short period. Had it been sent to our ipads, we would have time to interrogate the Report. I just want to say that when we were handling the first impeachment case that was presented to us, we were under attack from all sorts of people stating that Senators have an issue with Governors and so on and so forth. We have wavered that storm and we can prove to everybody that really in executing our mandate as a Senate and individually as Senators, we only pledge our allegiance to the Constitution. In the Senate, we do not pledge our allegiance to anybody and not to any political party. We do not bring to fore our ethnic affiliations or backgrounds. We simply execute our mandate as provided by the Constitution and we hold nobody accountable to anything apart from the facts that are presented. Therefore, it is upon the MCAs to present us with facts that have grounds and not weak ones that cannot withstand any test of what we are going to interrogate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate this Governor although I have not had occasion to meet him. Definitely, according to the Report, the manner in which he handled himself, he did not become erratic in his words, he was very compliant and he exhibited a lot of humility in dealing with the Senate and that means that he respects us, as Senators, and the institution of the Senate. I just want to state that this is not a balancing act as has been stated out there by some people; that we are simply impeaching one Governor and then letting another one go scot free. That is far from it. If we are presented with 20 cases that deal with facts that lead to impeachment, we will do that. But we are not going to crucify somebody when the facts presented before us do not meet those standards. This is what we have done this time round. 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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