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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this was evidenced by the myriad charges presented before the Machakos County Assembly and eventually to the Senate. The Senate framed 24 trivial charges in which, by consensus, the Senate Special Committee found 21 of the said charges unsubstantiated. I am not one of those--- I also do want to dissent there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my view is that the three charges which the Special Committee thinks are substantiated remain unsubstantiated for reasons stated herein under. These charges are trivial; they do not meet the threshold that is set by the Constitution. First and foremost, let me make it very clear that the Senate conducts a trial; the Senate does not just merely inform itself by matters of opinion. In impeachment proceedings the world over, the Senate constitutes itself into a trial court. It, therefore, must allude itself to a certain level of certainty of evidence; a certain degree of judicial fairness so that we can ascertain conclusively and without doubt that a certain crime has been committed. These are not machineries for witch-hunt and we must set up rules and procedures that guide impeachment processes both in county assemblies and in the Senate so that everybody must know, through law, what the threshold is. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I aver to this Committee and to this Senate that matters of threshold are not matters of opinion; they are matters of law. Thresholds are set by law and it was also set by our regulations. The charges, so substantiated, do not meet the necessary threshold to warrant an impeachment of the Deputy Governor. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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