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    "content": "Hon. Senators, Section 33(3)(b) of the County Governments Act and Standing Order 68(1)(b) of the Senate Standing Orders both provide that the Senate, by resolution, may appoint a Special Committee comprising eleven of its Members to investigate the matter. You will therefore observe that in today’s Order Paper, pursuant to these provisions of the law and the Gazette Notice, the Senate Majority Leader will be giving Notice of a Motion for the establishment of a Special Committee. You will also observe that the Motion has, with the approval of the Speaker, been listed on the Order Paper. Honourable Senators, should the Motion for the establishment of the Special Committee pass, the Special Committee will be required, under Section 33(4) of the County Governments Act and Standing Order 68(2), 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 the 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 all Honourable Senators, that 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 Nyeri County. It is not a Motion on the propriety, prudence or even the constitutionality or the legality of the processes that have preceded the submission of this matter to the Senate. It is not a debate on the facts of the matter or the merits. It is, therefore, not permissible to divert to any matters other than the Motion before the Senate. Hon. Senators, I had previously stated in this House and I will do so today, that the hearing of charges for the proposed removal from office of a state officer is one of the most solemn functions of the Senate under the Constitution. I therefore, once again, urge that the Senate rises to the occasion, as they have done previously, and exercise the highest level of responsibility on this matter in Plenary. Also, should the Motion by the Senate Majority Leader pass, proceed as formulated to the Special Committee. I thank you."
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