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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. There are two very critical issues as I get to the threshold of the matters that I would want to rise. When this House receives communication from the county assemblies that a process has been initiated at the county assembly level and that the county assemblies themselves have passed a Motion or a resolution to impeach a Governor or a Deputy Governor, then this House has a duty to conduct its constitutional role of according those parties the hearing of this Senate. When the charges by the County Assembly of Machakos were received by the Senate, you formed a Committee of 11 Members of this Senate to listen to these charges and allegations. I do not think that either the Senate was wrong or you were wrong in constituting that Committee of eleven Senators to go and look into these allegations and the charges and come up with a report. The question that behoves the Senate right now is that all those Senators who voted for the Report that has been tabled here are seven to four. Do we argue as a Senate that seven of those Senators were wrong and five were right? Mr. Speaker, Sir, the rule of the majority is the basic rule of democracy. This House has formed precedence just like any other court of law or any institution. As has been said by earlier speakers, all the time when there have been similar cases, we already have formed or have a trend and we also have set precedence. On the question of whether the hearings which were conducted by the Committee met a reasonable threshold to constitute or to uphold the charges, then I believe that the conscience of seven of those Senators against the decision of the five, then it tells this Senate that there must have been issues that led to that. The Chairperson of that Committee, Sen. Mutahi Kagwe, and the Seconder, the Senator for Nyamira who is a 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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