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    "id": 693838,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Charles Njenga",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did not want to venture to underestimate him. I know he is a man of many capabilities which are in the public domain. On page 726 also, there is the description of the payment. On Kameme Fm you will see that the presenters mentioned: Public Notice of Impeachment of Governor. Therefore, there is no equivocation around it. It was a clear notice to the public on that matter. On the issue of who was in charge if I got the question that was put in fluent Kiswahili, I will hazard a response. Constitutionally, the deputy governor should at all times be in charge when the governor is not available for any reason. The expectation of the County Assembly was that all functions, duties, structures within the County Government would continue running uninterrupted because this is not a personal enterprise of the Governor, but a county with structures that should survive at any time when somebody is indisposed and is unavailable for one reason or another, to administer and discharge that office. To that response, I can only answer on the provision of the law and the constitution that clearly says the deputy should be in charge. I will invite my colleague to make any other responses. Before he comes, there was an issue about whether there was external influence that we had first from the Governor. We wish this Senate will invite the persons he so adversely mentioned in their absence like Eng. Ephraim Maina. What I can say and I have instructions to state is that there were no such meetings, there was no such connivance or facilitation and the entire Motion and the proceedings before the County Assembly and before this honourable House were in the free will and in the statutory and constitutional duty of the MCAs and we should not underestimate their capacity. We should not be heard to say that our MCAs cannot conceive, analyse and develop such grounds based on circumstances and facts. We should give them the respect and regard that is due to them, that this is their Motion and it is not facilitated by third party operatives."
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