Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Jan 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.49 of 2022) be now read a Second Time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.49 of 2022) is a Bill of the National Assembly that was first published there. To the best of my recollection, this is the first time I am moving a National Assembly Bill before this House. For the benefit of the new Members, some of whom may be asking why we are moving a National Assembly Bill in ... view
• 19 Jan 2023 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 19 Jan 2023 in Senate: may need to guide us, but I will speak about it later. I wish he was in the House while I say this. The Bill seeks to cure the above cited malady as proscribed by the High Court in its ruling. Reducing the number of membership of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) from four to two and to allow the Political Parties Liaison Committee and the Public Service Commission (PSC) to each nominate one member to the panel. Mr. Speaker, Sir, specifically the Bill proposes the following new paragraphs 1 and 2 on the position of the panel, be as ... view
• 19 Jan 2023 in Senate: "(2) The selection panel shall consist of — (a) one man and one woman, nominated by the Parliamentary Service Commission” Mr. Speaker, Sir, I love that. It is a new way of drafting our legislation and we are becoming more descriptive. If you have followed the journey of legislations in Parliament, on many occasions we used to just say “two members.” It is now increasingly becoming a culture where if you have two, you specify and say at least a man and a woman. I would have expected my good friend, Sen. Beth Syengo and all the women in the ... view
• 19 Jan 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, please, guide Sen. Maanzo to not be frivolous with his points of orders. I thought he was raising a legal issue. We had explained in the morning on how we find ourselves in this situation and the person who took this matter to court. With the withdrawal of the amendment by Sen. Wakili Sigei, I want to convince the House, including Sen. Mumma, that we are back to square one, where the Bill is as it was brought to the House. Two slots had been given to the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya. In the morning, there ... view
• 19 Jan 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will say this because I know you, the Senate Minority Leader and a few other lawyers in the House, are interested parties. However, we will soon be discussing about the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). We keep on proposing that LSK needs to have people in almost every legislation that we pass in this House. What about architects, engineers, doctors and bodaboda riders in this country? This is especially for us that profess the bottom-up economic approach. This business of allocating almost every position in any commission that we pass here to the LSK, I believe ... view
• 19 Jan 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know lawyers will protest, but we will have that conversation. I urge hon. Senators to consider and pass this important Bill to ensure that IEBC Selection Panel is constitutionally constituted to allow them effectively perform their mandate. view
• 19 Jan 2023 in Senate: This is a very interesting scenario. I know the journey of this Bill very well. I was in this Parliament when we passed it. I also happened to have served in the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) at that time when we did the Selection Panel. There were very interesting intrigues back then. I made this revelation I think two days ago at Statehouse when we were celebrating the exit of the Chairman of IEBC, Mr. Wafula Chebukati. That when we retreated, I observed that the law, as then proscribed in my thinking - I still hold that view - that ... view
• 19 Jan 2023 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 19 Jan 2023 in Senate: much powers. It is because Parliament is a reflection of the entire country. Everybody knows that Parliament has two sides, the Minority and the Majority. Even then, as we sat in the PSC, we wrote letters to the leadership of both Houses - the Majority and Minority sides - and asked them to each nominate two members to the Selection Panel. The only unfortunate thing is that, at that time, because of the handshake policy that existed, the Majority and Minority were one side. Therefore, it ended that one side of the political divide, ended up nominating all the members ... view