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"content": "was my role.” So, you can tell who is wagging the tail, but that is the evidence that now this Senate is being called upon to uphold and impeach the Governor. On the question of appointment letters, a witness chickened out. Apparently, the witness who you were told could not testify because Witness No.1 touched on the issue of appointment, is a member of the Public Service Board. Ask yourself a question; how come a member of the County Public Service Board (CPSB) that does recruitment and shortlisting could not come and say; “Senators, on these questions of these casuals, we did not recruit”. The Governor may have issued letters, there is nothing barring him as the Chief Executive to issue a letter of appointment subsequent to a recruitment process. You are told that the letter must refer to the minutes of the board. Were you shown a proviso within the law that says that a letter of appointment must state when you were shortlisted and when the board sat? Mr. Speaker, Sir, now, you are being told there were 600 casuals, The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) intervened, did we get a letter from the EACC challenging the recruitment? It was said on oath, so it was very easy for that witness whom you all had a chance to listen to, who prevaricated all through and was very evasive; that was their star witness, whose objective was to come and nail the Governor, he was the Mover of the Motion and had all these material, but that is the evidence that you are being told that has risen to the threshold set out in Wambora’s decision, slightly below the standard that is required. That is the evidence, it is beyond reasonable doubt but the standard is just slightly below. That is the standard you are being told to uphold. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is not only about the Governor, Hon. Ferdinand Waititu, because we all aspire to hold these offices. What I am happy about is that this Senate is not there to validate. In fact, by you clearing the Governor, it is not that you are saying that there has not been infractions, there may be just like other counties, but all we are saying is that - that is why we set out all these issues about due process and threshold - let us be consistent, just like this Senate has consistently been consistent about the standards, so that we do not make it very easy for Assemblies to simply just converge, craft a Motion, pass it through a very opaque manner without even disclosing the numbers and bang! Senate, we invoke your process. That is trivializing a very nobble House. It is trivializing the impeachment role of this Senate. You will be sending a message, not that this Senate was favorable to Hon. Waititu today, no. It is that before we are seized of this matter, these guarantees are bare minimum and they must be met. What we are saying is that the threshold has not been met. Let this Senate in its report and that is what we shall be urging that even where it finds that there have been omissions, say that these are oversight mechanisms that can be deployed within Kiambu and that can redress these issues that have been raised by the Assembly and be very hesitant to invoke the weapon of impeachment and remove the honorable Governor. That is as far as the threshold and the merits of their case is concerned. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to yield – I do not know how much time we have, but perhaps for the comfort of the Senators, when we are making our closing arguments, we"
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