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    "content": "Hon. Senators, Section 33(b) of the County Governments Act and Standing Order No. 68(1) (b) both provide that the Senate by resolution may appoint a Special Committee comprising 11 of its Members to investigate the matter. You will also observe that in today’s Order Paper, pursuant to these provisions, the Senate Majority Leader will be giving a Notice of Motion for the establishment of a Special Committee. You will also observe that the Motion has been, with the approval of the Speaker, listed on the Order Paper. Hon. Senators, should the Motion for the establishment of the Special Committee pass, the Committee will be required under Section 33(4) of the County Governments Act and Standing Order No. 68 (ii) to investigate the matter and to report to the Senate within 10 days on whether it finds the particulars of the allegations against the Governor to have been substantiated. If, however, the Motion for the establishment of a Special Committee does not pass, the Senate shall proceed to investigate and consider the matter in Plenary. The resolution of the Senate on the Motion by the Senate Majority Leader will therefore determine the manner in which this matter shall henceforth proceed. It is noteworthy, and I wish to emphasize to Hon. Senators, that the debate on the Motion shall be limited to the substance of the Motion, namely; whether to establish a Special Committee consisting of the Senators listed to investigate the proposed removal of the Governor of Murang’a County. It is not a Motion on the propriety, prudence, the constitutionality or the illegality of the process that has preceded the submission of this matter to the Senate. Neither is it a debate on the facts of the matter or their merits. It is, therefore, not permissible to debate to any matters other than the Motion before the House. Hon. Senators, I have previously said in this House that the hearing of charges for the proposed removal from office of a state officer is one of the most important and also most solemn functions of the Senate under our Constitution. I therefore urge you once again that the Senate exercises the highest level of responsibility and circumspection on this matter in the plenary and also, should the Motion by the Senate Majority Leader pass, then the Special Committee. I thank you."
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