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    "content": "We need to ask ourselves as a Senate: Is it that we are setting the bar very high to the extent that we only have one governor who was impeached? However, the Gov. Wambora is still serving courtesy of an injunction from the courts. Is it that we raised the threshold too high so that the kind of messes that are happening in Nandi County and other counties, are continuing? Some governors are feeling comfortable saying that in any case theirs is not as serious as the one of Kericho County or Nyeri County who was left off the hook. We need to rethink about the threshold so that we have to use some of these processes as a deterrent. Then people can appreciate that some of these provisions of the law can be applied to any county at any time. These legal provisions can happen to you just like it happened to Makueni and Embu and they can be applicable anywhere. My point is that we need to ensure that threshold is not set too high that we end up defeating the very purpose why those provisions were there. I saw a situation where there were shoot-outs in Makueni which were very serious situations. If that did not warrant a suspension, we are left wondering when these provisions will ever be invoked. It is important we ensure the process is provided for within the law. It would be difficult to convince anybody that a commission has been appointed and is made up of reputable Kenyans with the necessary experience and expertise, but failed to convince the Executive of this country. They sit down on a matter, they work through the process and after they come up with a conclusion, it is just dismissed because they did not agree with them. There has to be reasons. Within the law, there are processes in terms of the appointing authority before nominees are forwarded to the appointing authority. If he dismisses their report, he must give reasons. Those reasons then have to revert back to the nominating authority for them to relook at them, discuss and forward them. If that is the general practice with regard to appointments, many other decisions should apply with regard to the suspension of a county. This will help us understand the reason why the President made this decision was on the basis of “x”, “y” and “z” and maybe he would be able to convince us. We always discuss Bills in this House and pass them for the President’s assent. If he has a problem with the law, he sends them back with a memorandum. That is the concept. We have always agreed with the memorandum in many cases by the President. We look at it, appreciate that this is where the President is coming from and amend it to suit the issues raised by him. In this particular case, I suspect most likely the position of the President was that some of these issues could be addressed through “x”, “y” and “z” means. However, the report did not come to this House. Therefore, we were unable to tell what the President was thinking in terms of how to address this particular matter. It is important that some of these issues are canvassed in this House. If that report did not find its way to the Senate and the county assembly and members of the public in Makueni County, why then did he jumpstart the process of suspending this County Government of Makueni, in the first place? It is important that we are able to address all these things. With those remarks, I beg to second."
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