{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=137553","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=137551","results":[{"id":1391931,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391931/?format=json","text_counter":148,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Please proceed."},{"id":1391932,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391932/?format=json","text_counter":149,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Ndegwa Njiru","speaker_title":"The Lead Counsel for the County Assembly","speaker":null,"content":" Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will take the first 10 minutes then I will share with my colleagues in respect to the opening remarks."},{"id":1391933,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391933/?format=json","text_counter":150,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cheptumo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13591,"legal_name":"Cheptumo William Kipkiror","slug":"cheptumo-william-kipkiror"},"content":"On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir."},{"id":1391934,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391934/?format=json","text_counter":151,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" What is the point of order, Senator for Baringo County."},{"id":1391935,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391935/?format=json","text_counter":152,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cheptumo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13591,"legal_name":"Cheptumo William Kipkiror","slug":"cheptumo-william-kipkiror"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have listened keenly to the Counsel for the County Assembly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thought your guidance was clear because the stage you are in as per the programme, is actually opening statements on behalf of the County Assembly. I am worried that if we allow further discussions, we are likely to lose track. This is not a case between this House and any of the parties. It is their case. I want to plead that, perhaps you reconsider your position. For you to be directed that you will make a finding, at this point, it is not the Speaker, but the House. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."},{"id":1391936,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391936/?format=json","text_counter":153,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cheptumo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13591,"legal_name":"Cheptumo William Kipkiror","slug":"cheptumo-william-kipkiror"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, guide us on that very sensitive matter. This House is being watched now across the country and the world."},{"id":1391937,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391937/?format=json","text_counter":154,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Sifuna, you do not have to beg. I will give you an opportunity."},{"id":1391938,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391938/?format=json","text_counter":155,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Omogeni","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13219,"legal_name":"Erick Okong'o Mogeni","slug":"erick-okongo-mogeni"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, maybe just to assist the Counsel for the County Assembly, I thought his opening remarks would have given him an opportunity to summarise for us Senators, what the case for the County Assembly is, so that he sets the stage for us to make a following. In terms of the objections that he has, when the time comes for that evidence to be adduced by the Deputy Governor, maybe he could raise his objection. However, he should utilise, with tremendous respect to him, the opening remarks to summarise for us because we just want to have a glimpse of the case that is facing the Deputy Governor. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have guided on that. Maybe we should also advise him that it is good to take the ruling of the Speaker, so that you follow and make these proceedings simpler for us to follow."},{"id":1391939,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391939/?format=json","text_counter":156,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Sifuna, proceed."},{"id":1391940,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1391940/?format=json","text_counter":157,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Sifuna","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13599,"legal_name":"Sifuna Edwin Watenya","slug":"sifuna-edwin-watenya"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, with the greatest respect to all the Senior Counsel who have spoken before me, I believe that this is a quasi-judicial proceeding. The Counsel for the County Assembly is very much in order to require that a ruling be made on the preliminary request. The only thing I fault them for is being too verbose on a very simple request. A request has been made pursuant to Rule 10 of these proceedings, that a witness be summoned by this House. We need to make a decision after hearing from the team for the Deputy Governor on whether there is going to be any prejudice if this gentleman called David Haggai Oyagi is summoned. That is a matter that has to be dispensed with before we hear opening remarks. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the second request is expunging of certain paragraphs that are being claimed not to be relevant. That is all this counsel needed to say without going into too many stories because we would want to get into the meat of the argument. Mr. Speaker, Sir, preliminary matters must be dealt with at the preliminary point so that it will set the tone on what we are going to hear and what we are not going to hear. I request that the House makes a determination on the request to summon this gentleman. If it is after hearing the counsel for the Deputy Governor, then we make a decision on the other question. Whether we want to expunge those paragraphs now, or we wait until we see the irrelevance, then we expunge them at that particular point. That is the guidance that I wanted to give the House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for the opportunity."}]}