{"id":970079,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/970079/?format=json","text_counter":62,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Charles Njenga","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, as directed, we will now proceed to respond to the charges brought against the Governor of Kiambu County. On the record of the Senate, the Governor had filed a notice of preliminary objection that raised four points of law. As part of the Governor’s response, we shall proceed to urge the said preliminary objection. I shall start and then my colleagues will argue the second ground. Let me begin by stating that the Governor pleaded not guilty to the charges. What is the effect of a plea of not guilty in this kind of proceedings? The effect of a plea of not guilty in this kind of proceedings, which are quasi-judicial, is that the burden immediately shifts to the county assembly to prove all the material particulars of the"}