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    "id": 754592,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 69,
        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Clerk, I rise to speak on this particular matter. I would like to urge the Senators to live for the spirit and by the oath of office that we have just taken. I have listened very carefully to what Sen. Orengo has said and the replies by Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. I have also looked at what the Constitution provides for under Article 50 on matters related to fair hearing. I have also looked at what the Constitution provides for under Article 73(2) on matters related to elected state officers. I have also listened to what Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has said regarding the report that was deliberated on by this Senate. If I understood him clearly, because I have not had the advantage of looking at the report, he says that in the event that the allegations are substantiated, then that particular state officer should have been removed from office by the application of Article 75 if my memory serves me right. In the absence of investigations having been completed and in the absence of this gentleman having been found culpable by the due process of law, then it will be very unfair for us to condemn him before the application of due process. I plead with Senators that where a matter has not been decided--- I would want anybody to reason out, assume that we deny this gentleman an opportunity to run for Office of Speaker, then these investigations are done and he is not convicted or found to have not been culpable, what will happen? The position will have gone. Since there are options of getting a State officer from office as provided by Article 251, I would persuade my dear colleagues to find that it is only necessary, for now, to allow the Senate to conduct the election of the Speaker other than dwelling on this issue. I understand these issues are important and mean a lot. However, until such a time that these matters are concluded in accordance with law, then we cannot continually speculate the outcome of these investigations."
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