All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2001 to 2010 of 2013.

  • 18 Jul 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is the Senator for Kirinyaga in order to mislead this House that there are some counties which have allocated monies to promote sodomy? If he has information, he should table it in this House. view
  • 4 Jul 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Senator in order to propagate and incite Kenyans to do poaching in the name of marketing crocodiles? view
  • 4 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, I beg to second this Motion. In seconding, I wish to sympathize with the over 1,730 families that were displaced to pave way for the construction of Turkwel Dam. We definitely need to look at this issue more broadly. We have had instances in this country where the Government decides to carry out development activities that are aimed at supporting the economic advancement of this country, but at the end of the day, they are not careful enough to look at communities that are being affected by these development activities. If you look at the over 2,000 ... view
  • 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is the Senator for Kakamega in order to mislead this House that the principle of public/private partnership does not work in our counties? Is he in order? view
  • 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: On a point of information, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
  • 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to inform the distinguished Senator for Vihiga, who is my neighbor, that according to the Fourth Schedule of the new Constitution, ICT is a function of the national Government and, therefore, if we proceed on urging the county governments to provide budgets for it, it is actually unconstitutional. view
  • 22 May 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am going to take less than the available 25 minutes, because I guess that all of us in this House would want to ventilate on this issue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I mentioned yesterday, I support this Motion. Our constitutional responsibility as the Senate is to protect and serve the interests of the counties. This Bill provides us with an opportunity to execute our constitutional mandate of protecting the interest of counties. You cannot protect the interests of counties if you cannot allocate adequate resources to these counties. It does not make ... view
  • 21 May 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I rise to support the Bill. The responsibility of this House is to protect and to serve the interest of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
  • 14 May 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to join my colleagues in supporting this Motion. I think, as my colleagues have mentioned, the responsibilities bestowed upon Members of the County Assemblies is huge. We, therefore, need to facilitate them. The Salaries and Remuneration Commission is setting up Members of the County Assembly so that they fail. If you give huge responsibilities to a county assembly member and then deny them the resources required to carry out the responsibilities, in that sense, you are playing politics. I want to join my colleagues in asking the members of the Salaries and Remuneration ... view
  • 30 Apr 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion and pass my message of condolence from myself, my family and that of the people of Nandi to the family of the late Sen. Mutula Kilonzo. I personally never had personal relations with the late Senator, but I admired him. I think like Sen. Murkomen and others, he was one of the inspirations that led me to join the legal profession. I want to take this opportunity to pass my condolence. I know the late Mutula was admired by the people of Nandi and so I pass the condolence ... view

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