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    "content": "amend, but we did not, the fact of the matter is that the Committee of 11 Members makes the decision on behalf of the Senate without any debate in the Senate on this very serious matter. That is the law. The Committee has let the Governor of Murang’a County off the hook. We, as the Senate, there is nothing we can do now. We may complain that the law is not good or that the Committee did not do a good job, but the Governor is off the hook. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to suggest and give legal advice. The best thing we can do now is to be consistent. Sen. Obure and I were among the team which handled the proceedings of the proposed impeachment of the Governor of Kericho. Our Committee made a similar recommendation to this House. We found some of the charges which were made against the Governor to have been substantiated, but we did not find them to be gross violations of the Constitution. I think it would be some stretch of imagination to find somebody’s picture on bill boards to be a gross violation of the Constitution. Even in law, it would be a misdemeanor; it would not be a heinous crime or a felony. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I understand the disappointments that the Senators have with the rules that we have. Indeed, I will be happy if, in future, we could amend our Standing Orders so that a report of a Committee like that is debated in the House and the final decision is made through a vote by all the Senators in the House. However, for now, we should make notes of this precedent and allow the Governor for Murang’a County to go. We should also make notes that other agencies of the law such as the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) or the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) can deal with the issues that the Senate has not dealt with. It is time we amend our Standing Orders, so that the report of this Committee, like other Committees, is brought before the Senate for debate and the resolution is made through the usual manner by a vote."
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