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    "content": "immediately after that, the Speaker ran to court and actually obtained a court order. The number of MCAs that impeached the Speaker was 15 against five, who voted no to the impeachment Motion. Clearly, that allowed the County Assembly to impeach the Speaker. One of the grounds upon which the County Assembly impeached the Speaker was that--- As far as the Standing Orders were concerned, the MCAs had complied with them and I believe that the grounds are very clear in the sense that it is as a result of incompetence of the Speaker. On 16th June, 2014, the Speaker obtained an interim order reinstating him temporarily. The order also stopped the advertising of his position and allowed him to access the Assembly. That was actually an ex parte ruling. This was, in itself, not right because on such a grave matter, the court should have listened to both parties without granting those orders. Up to now, the case in Meru High Court is at a standstill. It is still at the mentioning stage and I believe that if it is a temporary injunction, it must have a limited time within which the matter should have been determined. But, unfortunately, the interim order has been renewed and the matter is not actually moving to the hearing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on 23rd again, the County Assembly moved to Court of Appeal sitting in Nyeri to set aside the decision of the Meru High Court. Unfortunately, the court sitting in Nyeri referred the matter back and rejected the appeal of the County Assembly. Clearly, this shows that the court has not given ears to the County Assembly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what is clearly coming out of all this is that we are just running around from one court to the other but without accessing justice, yet the courts in this country are supposed to give justice to those who are aggrieved."
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