{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=157107","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=157105","results":[{"id":1589252,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589252/?format=json","text_counter":293,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Okiya Omtatah","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"“William Roper: So, now you give the devil the benefit of law! Sir. Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the devil? William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all been flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you are just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I would give the devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!” Mr. Speaker, Sir, those words that were written in 1960 in the play “A Man for"},{"id":1589253,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589253/?format=json","text_counter":294,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"All Seasons”"},{"id":1589254,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589254/?format=json","text_counter":295,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Okiya Omtatah","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"underscore my position that we must uphold the rule of law in this country. Article 3(1) of the Constitution, calls upon us to do just that. Having listened to the Motions here, from the way the matter was conducted, we clearly had two Motions before this House. We had an application for dismissal based on the fact that there was no hearing and there was a preliminary objection based on the fact that there was a court order. So, disposing off that Motion when you allow evidence to be adduced, it morphed into a Motion. Having listened to what was presented, there was no sitting of the Assembly that meets the threshold in law. The Assembly has got a designated place where it sits and it has clear procedures to be followed. Unfortunately, the evidence before us is such that the sitting did not take place."},{"id":1589255,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589255/?format=json","text_counter":296,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Okiya Omtatah","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Number two, we were told that we could ignore the court orders. I would like to persuade the learned counsel who are saying that the High Court had no business to intervene to look at Article 165 of the Constitution."},{"id":1589256,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589256/?format=json","text_counter":297,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Senator from Busia County, just restrict your submissions to the Motion on the sittings. When we come to the second Motion, you will make these comments."},{"id":1589257,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589257/?format=json","text_counter":298,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Okiya Omtatah","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"I am fully persuaded that there was no sitting that---"},{"id":1589258,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589258/?format=json","text_counter":299,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Nyamu","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, with all due respect, this is a joke and a dangerous one. Where does the team of the County Assembly of Isiolo get the audacity to walk into this Senate without a shred of evidence that a sitting of a County Assembly ever took place? This is not a WhatsApp group. This is a constitutional institution. Where is the HANSARD? Where is the attendance record? I want to be very clear that there was no sitting. Therefore, there was no impeachment. With those very few remarks, I support."},{"id":1589259,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589259/?format=json","text_counter":300,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Prof.) Tom Odhiambo Ojienda, SC","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, the jurisprudential contours of impeachment are embedded both in procedure and in substance and now well set in the case of Martin Nyaga Wambora and County Assembly of Embu. I took part in the case. I also took part in the case of Mohammed Abdi Mohammud and the County Assembly of Wajir and we got the Governor back to office because there was a court order. Lastly, we have the case of Kawira Mwangaza and the County Assembly of Meru and the recent case of Onyango Oloo versus County Assembly of Kisumu. 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":1589260,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589260/?format=json","text_counter":301,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Prof.) Tom Odhiambo Ojienda, SC","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"The question as to whether there was a sitting is answered by the documents filed before the Senate. The affidavit of Salad Boru Guracha speaks to whether or not there was a sitting and it is emphatic that there was no sitting. The second affidavit that we have on record is by Habiba Galgalo Jirma, who is the Chief Finance Officer, who also confirms that there was no sitting. The third affidavit is by Hon. Abdinoor Dima Jillo, who is an elected Member of Kinna ward who confirms that there was no sitting. The next affidavit is by Hon. Diba Abdirashid Ali who is the duly elected County Assembly of Isiolo Member for Garbatulla Ward who also confirms that there was no sitting. Lastly, Mr. Speaker, Sir - and this is important - Shaaban Mzungu, whose affidavit appears on page 46, confirms that on 18th the Assembly was locked. On 26th the Members were able to get to the Assembly for 10 minutes and walked out. That is where there is a substantive question as to whether there were proper recordings. This afternoon, I thought that Counsel for the County Assembly would respond to the technical issues raised as to whether or not there was a sitting through the law. Unfortunately, Counsel Mawira fell into the tricks of his submissions by playing two videos that did not have voice recordings and that went to admitting that there were no proceedings at the Assembly. It is very, very unfortunate that this case has to die. I was prepared to proceed to the substance of the hearing---"},{"id":1589261,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1589261/?format=json","text_counter":302,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Seki, proceed."}]}