15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you for according me this opportunity---
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15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to appreciate the unending generosity of the Minority Leader, Sen. Wetangula, and your kind consideration. I rise under Standing Order No.203 (5) which states:- “A report having been adopted by a majority of Senators, a Minority of Dissenting Report may be appended to the report by any Member or Members of the Committee.” I found it necessary that I codify the issues that I articulated in the Committee, not only about the specific charges that were so substantiated by a majority but also on the procedural fairness of the whole impeachment process. I want to ...
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15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to appreciate the unending generosity of the Minority Leader, Sen. Wetangula, and your kind consideration. I rise under Standing Order No.203 (5) which states:- “A report having been adopted by a majority of Senators, a Minority of Dissenting Report may be appended to the report by any Member or Members of the Committee.” I found it necessary that I codify the issues that I articulated in the Committee, not only about the specific charges that were so substantiated by a majority but also on the procedural fairness of the whole impeachment process. I want to ...
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15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Therefore, for the transcript, you should have called the person who videotaped it. If it is a trial, then we must ensure that we meet certain standards or expectations of law. These standards and expectations of law were not met. It was simply said “Oh, the Deputy Governor should not have uttered the word “Nguu.” But by the admission of the Deputy Governor, his utterance of the word “ Nguu” had a different connotation. Therefore, it was for us to go an extra mile. We did forum shopping; as we filed the impeachment proceedings, the same people have rushed to ...
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15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Therefore, for the transcript, you should have called the person who videotaped it. If it is a trial, then we must ensure that we meet certain standards or expectations of law. These standards and expectations of law were not met. It was simply said “Oh, the Deputy Governor should not have uttered the word “Nguu.” But by the admission of the Deputy Governor, his utterance of the word “ Nguu” had a different connotation. Therefore, it was for us to go an extra mile. We did forum shopping; as we filed the impeachment proceedings, the same people have rushed to ...
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15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
I said something in Swahili; do you not understand it in English, Sen. Wamatangi?
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15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
I said something in Swahili; do you not understand it in English, Sen. Wamatangi?
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15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
I think, Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is why it is called a dissenting view---
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15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
I think, Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is why it is called a dissenting view---
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15 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Sen. Wamatangi, you are my very good friend and I am a very eloquent guy; you must listen to the very end. You will get a lot of benefit. Even if you might not use it today, you might use it tomorrow when you are in the Opposition. But that said and done, Senator, that was on a light touch, my dear friend. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have become very paranoid in this country, since I do not know which other context to give it. For a long time we, the people from the Coast region were stereotyped as “wale ...
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