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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary, Speaker, Sir. As a Member of this Committee, it will be a bit weird if I say that I support the Report, because it is our Report. Maybe the better thing to say is that I believe in the work that we did. In all earnest and fairness, we did that job, trying to get the best solution for the people of Taita Taveta County. I have heard many of my colleagues speaking. Therefore, in my contribution, I will try and allay some of the fears that have been brought up. I will also try to correct some of the things which I have heard from my colleagues which, maybe, because of the challenge of the Report having been brought to the House this afternoon, many of them have not read through it to understand exactly what we have said in it. Mr. Temporary, Speaker, Sir, we did not let the governor go. You cannot let such a governor go scot-free. That is the first thing that I would wish to bring to the attention of this House. However, like I had explained earlier, the threshold that we were looking for so as to confirm whether the Governor has been properly impeached or not, was not reached. However, that is not to give him a clean bill of health. I must quickly add that I am totally disappointed with all the MCAs of Taita Taveta County. This is because if how they treated our Committee is how they go about their responsibilities and duties, then it is no wonder that the governor is doing the things he is doing. This County Assembly appeared before us by way of an advocate, and presented nine accusations on the conduct of the governor. We asked them for evidence, and they assured us that we will have all the evidence presented before us the following day at 9 a.m., for us to make a determination, but unfortunately by the time we retired to write our judgement yesterday in the evening, none of that evidence had been produced before the Committee. It is on that technicality that Gov. Samboja was able to escape from this impeachment process."
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