Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: Lastly on the agenda items that we are considering is the establishment and entrenchment of the various state offices. That included the office of the Leader of Opposition and that of the Prime Cabinet Secretary. We considered all that and we understand the politics revolving around all those. We felt this is a particular time of importance to carry on the bipartisan spirit of this conversation to take advantage and ensure that we entrench those offices. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, many times when we discuss about the office of the Leader of Opposition, the mistake we make is that we discuss it with certain politicians in mind. It is not about them; we are making this Constitution and the statutes for posterity. There is just a question that has not been resolved; what happens to the candidate that garners the second highest number of votes in a presidential election? view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: Perhaps part of the reason we have all these agitations and challenges after elections is because there are no clearly provided channels where that particular individual can exercise the opposition role in a decent way and ensure that they hold Government to account and their proposals to that effect. Since I want to be fair to colleagues and I know this is a matter that colleagues have a lot of interest in, I want to really be brief. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: Lastly allow me to raise the proposals and the measures that have been provided for each of those under the recommendations page. On the issue of the restructure of the IEBC, the committee has recommended as an expanded selection; a reconstitution. You are aware that there is a selection panel that is presently trying to reconstitute the IEBC and they are in the final stages. The courts of law have told them that the national dialogue is a process alien to law. Therefore, they are being pushed to conclude. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: While that is happening, we feel that the best way to address this particular issue is to reconstitute the selection panel. There were ideas about how to do it. I remember when we passed the IEBC Amendment Act here, I believe Sen. (Dr.) Oburu had filed a certain amendment on the distribution of the nine members of the selection panel. I believe Sen. Mumma also had an amendment. Therefore, we have listened to each and every player and tried to include other stakeholders. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: There is a fallacious thinking in this country that elections are just about politicians. In fact, it is more about other Kenyans than us politicians. We form a very small minority. Yet sometimes when you are doing inclusion of IEBC selection panel and who gets to sit in IEBC, we think only about the political class. There is a better proposal on how to form the selection panel and growing the number. Presently, there are seven members of the selection panel, four from Parliament, two from inter-religious bodies and one from Law Society of Kenya (LSK). That makes it seven. ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you are aware that one of our colleagues, Sen. Okiya Omtatah, has taken himself to court because he is a parliamentarian. Every time he goes to court, it means he has sued himself and successfully so because the courts have agreed with him view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: 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 Services,Senate. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: that Parliament, not this particular one, but the previous Parliament. When we considered the IEBC Amendment Act, we allocated ourselves four positions out of seven in the selection panel where the courts felt that was too much from one institution. We have reduced from four to two and distributed it to other interested parties, including professional bodies like LSK and auditors.There was a big fight why LSK was needed in it, but eventually it was agreed that they will have one nominee. On audit of the 2022 presidential election, the committee recommended that in this House, there will be a ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: On boundaries delimitation, the committee has recommended that the intervals within which review of boundaries may be done with the resolution of Parliament, investigation of claims of marginalization by the relevant body and made provisions for fast tracking of a legal framework for review of county boundaries as provided under Article 188. There is a Bill already before the Floor of the Senate on this particular issue. Consequently, the two resolutions on that particular matter is, one, a speedy reconstitution of IEBC and, two, setting up of that body as enshrined in Article 188. On the outstanding constitutional matter, the ... view