30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First, allow me to react to your Communication. I agree with you in your decision. That is the proper way that a proper House of Parliament needs to be treated, especially in its relation with the Executive. I say this because Parliament is a legislative Arm of Government. So, if the Executive has any legislative agenda that it want to process, it should make a request to the Houses of Parliament on what it feel needs to be considered. It should not be vice versa. This is not an extension of the Executive. It should ...
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30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a worrying trend if you follow what the Senator for Wajir County has raised with regards to on goings in his county. In accordance with Article 96, as a House, our primary duty and responsibility is to be defenders of devolution and to ensure that it is entrenched as a culture and our governance practice in our country. This House finds itself right in the middle of the path where we can either aid the wounding up counties through such practices, or put a stop by standing firm urging the
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30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
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30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
relevant Committee which we shall task to handle this matter guides this House on how we are going to prosecute the issues that have been raised. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we understand it is not all county assemblies that have the capacity to put governors on check. All of us live in this country. We know what is happening in various county assemblies why it is impossible for certain county assemblies to get their governors come, be put to task and explain how they are using the resources that we fight so hard with our colleagues from the National Assembly to ...
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30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you find the Senator for Wajir County taking the trouble to follow this particular path then it tells you there is a problem. I do hope that our colleagues, I do not know which Committee you will prescribe this particular Petition to be handled in, but our hope is that our colleagues do justice to the residents of Wajir County. They should ensure that these issues that have been raised are proved, confirmed or dismissed with facts or otherwise.
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30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, as a House, would have failed in our primary responsibility and we will not have a raison d'être, if I may put it that way. I know that later on today and not to anticipate debate, but we shall be discussing about membership of the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments. If you do recall, you know my position on that particular issue. I have always felt that the way we have handled audit reports of various counties by way of a Committee does not work for me. I would wish that we had a ...
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30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
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30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree to this route that is being taken by our colleague. I urge that instead of the mandatory 60 days, if you can urge them to conclude, perhaps even in the next two to three weeks and report back to this House, that will be a great justice to the people of Wajir County.
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30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. This makes for a very interesting afternoon; never has a Motion been amended and un- amended so many times before it is even discussed as we are doing---
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30 Mar 2021 in Senate:
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