{"id":497850,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/497850/?format=json","text_counter":246,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13156,"legal_name":"Mutula Kilonzo Jnr","slug":"mutula-kilonzo-jnr"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. My Chairman, Sen. Mutahi Kagwe, has very nice words but always qualifies them when he finishes the sentence but I appreciate together with other Senators. Senators, I do not think even in your arguments and appreciating the work, we have, in fact, delved in to the details of this. Let me highlight that the work that you are doing as Senators under Article 96, there is an injunction. There are also injunctions in your work in the oversight committee and under Article125, the right by the committee to summon witnesses. Make no mistake that the in junction is against the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee, the one which is chaired by Sen. (Dr) Khalwale. It actually reads all committees and it is not governors. The fact that there is an injunction means that we are injuncted in all ways. On Articles No.181 and 182 on impeachment, there is an injunction. The only thing that has not been injuncted, which may be they will, is Article 217 on the revenue sharing formula. I want to repeat the words of Sen. Orengo, which, in fact, captures the mood. Most of you have said that you capture the spirit but you forgot the mood. We have to make a statement about what we are doing as a Senate in terms of the numerous court orders and court cases that have singularly and collectively rendered the work of this Senate useless. Article 110 of the Constitution, Article 111, legislative making, Sang Bill injunction--- You know what happened to Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’Nyong’o when he wanted to have a meeting. It is all about court orders and I do not think there is anything more important today in the Senate and in your Committees other than these court orders. I was waiting for somebody to say that, in fact, we should suspend all the work of the Committees until we sort out this issue. If you want to subject this to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights where we have six pending Bills from various Committees, what is the purpose of sitting down to read all these Bills, use all our legal staff to give us briefs on this and yet by the time we finish, just like the Sang Bill, an injunction is issued against convening, sitting and whatever else that comes with that Bill? The gravity of the things that are happening at the Senate will soon dawn, that by the next time we come back during the new term, we will have no work to do. There will be no board, there will be no Committees, it will be the end of the financial year and no governor would have set foot here yet the reports that are coming--- 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."}