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    "content": "Executive of the County. It is for the Senate, in furtherance of its solemn mandate under Article 96 of the Constitution to remind all serving governors that whereas you are the ones to implement what he we have entrusted you with, we shall not hesitate to crack the whip, not because we dislike you but it is because you asked to be bestowed with that duty or with that mandate and you have failed to deliver on that mandate. You will then act on behalf of the people who gave us that mandate under Article 96 by reminding you that we do not have to await the next elections for us to tell you; “time is up”. So, in the fullness of time, we shall be inviting this Honourable Senate to consider the totality of the material that is before it and find there is more than sufficient evidence, first to demonstrate that the Honourable Governor is directly culpable for all the charges that are set out in the articles for removal presented before this Senate. Secondly, under Section 33 of the County Government Act, he is partially accountable for those actions and that the nexus exists and that the threshold which has already been set before this Senate and extrapolated further by courts of law will be more than satisfied so that a very clear message is sent out there; that devolution was not set out in our constitutional architecture for jest or for the sake of it. It was meant deliberately to ensure that better services are rendered to the people of Kenya. If governors are allowed to be a threat to the delivery of those services or to the achievement of the objective set out under the Constitution, then this Senate is the one that must tell those governors that “you have to go home so that we can get people in charge who can deliver on that mandate”. Mr. Speaker Sir, that will be it for our opening statement. Thank you very much. God bless. OPENING STATEMENTS ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNOR OF NYERI COUNTY"
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