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    "content": "Each day before we begin our parliamentary proceedings, we start with a prayer and there are some words which always linger in my mind. If I may quote a portion of our daily prayer which says that: “We seek guidance to treat and consider all matters that shall come under our deliberation in so just and faithful a manner as to advance the peace, prosperity and welfare of our country and for those whose interests you have committed to our charge”. This is a prayer which lingers in my mind as I serve this House even in committees. It is among those reasons that when I looked at the charge that we held; which was accepted by the majority as having met the threshold of impeachment, then the question which arose was what the threshold of impeachment was. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the fourth impeachment process we are having but we do not have a standard of threshold. In other jurisdictions, Governors have been impeached for general incompetence. Governors have been impeached for very petty issues, but for this case, this is a very weighty matter. If you look at the genesis of the post-election violence in 1992, 1997, 2007/2008, there were coded utterances which affected the people of this country. It is for this reason that I ask my colleagues in this House to stand up on the oath that they took and the Constitution of Kenya so that we are not held hostage to the whims of political dimensions, where we come from or which language we speak. With those views, I second."
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