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    "content": "this was not in the old Constitution. The drafters of the Constitution thought that the Senate and the National Assembly can subject a president to impeachment proceedings and that is a reality that I would like to see. A president can be put to task; like President Bill Clinton was put to task and told that he violated the Constitution. He had to answer those questions the way he did. We should not say it is impossible because the drafters of the Constitution made it possible to impeach a president. I mentioned this to you when we were in Eldoret. I was very glad when the late Governor Gachagua came here and defended himself before the House. A governor must face the whole Senate of the Republic of Kenya as opposed to appearing before 10 Members of a special committee. Although it is put here as an alternative, I would have preferred where the whole Senate is the main method of an impeachment. The same way, I would prefer that if we were to impeach a president, we cannot leave that process to 10 people in the National Assembly or the Senate. We should have him face 67 Senators and a speaker where everybody is watching so that we give Kenyans the benefit of listening to the allegations. Like they said in the Supreme Court, it cannot be a process like it was used by Members of County Assembly (MCAs) to get money and trips out of their governors like in the case of Nairobi and other counties where MCAs were complaining that they were refused trips. This law must speak to Kenyans and particularly the people who have been given the mandate to impeach elected representatives. It cannot be whimsical or flippant, like in the case of Nyeri, to “sleep” in the Chamber or do whatever it takes to threaten impeaching the governor or getting whatever they want. That is not to say that Cabinet Secretaries should not face the full force of the law. I thought that I would have a chance to address the Senator for Meru but he took off again, like he did at some point when he proposed a Motion to impeach a Cabinet Secretary."
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