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    "content": "“A Senator shall be responsible for the accuracy of any facts that the Senator alleges to be true and be required to substantiate any such facts instantly. “ The Senator for Nyeri, requested you to substantiate. The Standing Orders talk about “instantly”. You have not made any transgression so far because you have not said that you are not capable of any substantiation. In fact, you said that you will substantiate and stand by the statement that you made. The only problem here, which is not a problem, is that the law requires you to do so instantly. I did not want to repeat the fact that you have mentioned two people; Gen. Karangi and Cabinet Secretary Matiangi. You said that they have done something that you consider to be illegal because that is the essence of the Notice of Adjournment that you have brought. So, that means that if they have done something illegal, unlawful or against the Constitution, since they cannot defend themselves in this House, that allegation needs to be substantiated. That will take us to Standing Order No.94 (2) that states:- “If a Senator has sufficient reason to convince the Speaker that the Senator is unable to substantiate the allegations instantly, the Speaker shall require that such Senator substantiates the allegations not later than the next sitting day, failure to which the Senator shall be deemed to be disorderly within the meaning of Standing Order No.110, unless the Senator withdraws the allegations and gives a suitable apology if the Speaker so requires”. So, we are not saying anything that is not within our own Standing Orders. The only question is: Are you able to substantiate instantly? If you are, we shall request you to do it, but if you are not, then we shall stand down that issue for now and require you to substantiate tomorrow on the issue of Gen. Karangi and Cabinet Secretary Matiang’i. If you are not able to substantiate even tomorrow so that we do not go to Standing Order No.110, then my request would be that you withdraw so that we are able to proceed with the debate on the Motion of Adjournment. I think you have to make a decision within those parameters."
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