17 Sep 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I requested that the Committee that I Chaired, formed by a resolution of this House, an ad hoc Committee, to look into the challenges including the ones that are listed in that particular petition.
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17 Sep 2019 in Senate:
We have brought that petition to this House. It has been before Senate Business Committee for the last three months. It has never been allocated time. It is therefore my humble request that you do allocate time and it will sort those issues.
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17 Sep 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Allow me to commend you because today you are very democratic.
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17 Sep 2019 in Senate:
The qualification of ―very‖ means that today you are doing better.
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17 Sep 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will try and be extremely brief to the three minutes. I have gone full circle. I have been dejected, angry, disappointed, but eventually I have come to realize that as a Senate, this is the best we could do. I have come to live within the possibilities of what was available to us a House. Given the constitutional architecture, the kind of challenges that this House was up against, I do not think we should be berating ourselves the way I hear some of my colleagues doing and saying we have sold our souls and ...
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17 Sep 2019 in Senate:
may not agree on who should be the next President or the Prime Minister of this country, but surely as a House we do agree that we must guard devolution by all means that are possible to us. I want to propose that the leadership guides us on all the grey areas. From the determination of what is the proper amount of shareable revenue, the issues of ceilings to our county assemblies and even this particular issue of having to close down our county governments almost every three or four months at the beginning of a financial year awaiting the ...
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17 Sep 2019 in Senate:
or whatever they want to do. However, for us, as the Senate, let us ensure that we sponsor a Bill that will go to the public that ensures we safeguard the interests of devolution.
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17 Sep 2019 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I do not know if I heard the Senator for Migori County right. He is pouring cold water on the ambitions of many Senators who want to be president of this country. After listening to some of them today, I am convinced that they can make better presidents than have ever been.
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12 Sep 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I will try to abide by your ruling, difficult as it may be, especially for those of us who have had to pay not only emotional, but also economic price, thanks to the madness that is going on in South Africa. About two months ago, late at night, I received a text message from a student from my county who studies in South Africa. She was in distress and had sought refuge at a church next to where she used to live because of the attacks. Therefore, this is not an issue to be treated casually. Although ...
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12 Sep 2019 in Senate:
do more justice by raising a substantive Motion on this issue. We should take leave of the House to discuss it completely with pointers on what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade should do regarding this particular issue. This issue did not begin yesterday. When Jacob Zuma, the former immediate President of South Africa, visited Kenya two years ago, part of the request that Kenya made was for Kenyans to be allowed access to South Africa by being granted visas on arrival. The least we expected was for South Africa to reciprocate what we do to their citizens ...
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