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Honorable Senators,
Honorable Senators,
You can, however, having listened to the presentations made by the assembly,
bear me witness that they mainly involved emotional and contradicting
witness statements that were neither supported by any evidence nor fully
substantiated by facts.
Case in point, you have heard evidence that there was no one Ksh. 50 million
contract paid to Velocity Company, neither was there evidence of any invoice
of Ksh. 30 million paid as passionately alleged by the MCAs.
You clearly heard that out of the Ksh. 10 Million shillings claimed to have been
sent to my account, 4.6M was completely fictitious and nonexistent figures
which was never sent to my account. Further, Honorable Senators, you heard
that in two of them in which it was alleged that I invoiced the county and did
not travel, the majority leader who is a key proponent of the motion was
present in these trips and was even photographed as shown in our travel file
submissions.
You heard one of the witnesses claim that our health facilities are dilapidated
to the point of ALL of them being infested by snakes, this in contradiction to
the national body, the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board and
others who gave the hospital a clean bill of health. She cited lack of autoclave
machines and incinerators which the members of the county assembly so
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graciously allocated budget in May last year and these were purchased and
delivered.
Honorable Senators,
The county assembly has also failed to demonstrate to this committee how a
public participation process on the impeachment was conducted at a time
when there was a court order putting an injunction on the process due to
Covid-19 and public interactions highly limited. The process therefore excluded
the voice of a majority of Kirinyaga residents yet the matter at hand impacts on
them. The public participation question puts to doubt the validity of the whole
impeachment process.
My lawyers have dispelled the false allegations that formed the basis of my
impeachment and we have seen that they are an affront to impeachment
process as prescribed in the constitution. The issues raised could have indeed
been clarified through routine inquiries.
The assembly has also failed to prove that any of the tenders mentioned in the
impeachment motion were irregularly awarded or that the county incurred any
financial loses as result of the said awards let alone proving how the Governor
was conferred any personal benefit.
I reiterate that these kinds of falsehoods not only demean the legislative arm
of the county government but are proof that the motion was only seeking to
malign my name with an ulterior motive by the MCAs.
Honorable Senators,
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So far we have been treated to innuendos and trivialities that do not meet the
threshold of gross violation of the constitution hence meriting an
impeachment.
The precedence that this committee will set will be a point of reference in
future impeachment processes and it is therefore expected that the decisions
taken by this committee will not come back to haunt this house.
All eyes are on this committee to make decisions that are beyond reproach and
will stand the test of time.
I urge the senate to ensure that the outcome of the proceedings will serve
justice to the residents of Kirinyaga County who deserve every effort of the
elected leaders in accomplishing the development agenda of the county.
This has meant taking political decisions including to support H.E the President
in his BBI initiative which I believe is the interest of Kirinyaga and all of Kenya.
BUT
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In the words of the famous Pan-Africanist Frank Fanon I have no regrets for: -
"Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it,
or betray it.
... To those that have conspired with these forces to wrongfully impeach me, I
forgive you and say to you as I close in the words of the Great American
Female Poet Maya Angelou .. "Kirinyaga people will forget what you said, they
will even forget what you did but they will NEVER FORGET HOW YOU MADE
THEM FEEL" & neither will I. That notwithstanding - I forgive you.
Outside conspiracies visited on us with the help of a few local leaders has
brought shame and humiliation to us at home. I pray that it should never be
allowed to happen again
I Thank you