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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Charles Njenga",
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    "content": "between two parties and an investigative organ properly constituted and the law. The Senate has the capacity to even summon the Clerk and the Speaker; call for those logs and demonstrate independently, even without our input; the integrity of the vote. The issue of electoral and voter fraud is a live issue in this country. When it is raised, the Senate cannot prevaricate on it; it has to look at it and call for evidence. What we have before you is an admission on two things. First, those details were not given to the House, and secondly, the mover of the motion and the witnesses of the county assembly – even in the face of the preliminary objection, which they admit they were served with and they knew that the issue of numbers was an issue in these proceedings – they did not lead any evidence. The burden is theirs. Once a governor pleads not guilty, the burden is theirs to prove that the number threshold was realised. It cannot be a presumption. It cannot be assumed, as it has to be demonstrated by evidence, empirical admissible evidence to a threshold as required by law. That demonstration and evidence are absent. In its absence, then the unavoidable conclusion – and this is my plea to the Senate – it must find that without that evidence, then there is no proper resolution upon which the Senate can move to determine whether or not the charges are substantiated. I rest on that point and wish to invite my colleague, Mr. Wanyama, to add the second point of our appeal. Thank you so much."
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