21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, you know Sen. M. Kajwang' just walked in so he did not follow the full length of my argument. I was making a case for the downtrodden and I said, if we have not demolished the houses of those who were named in the Ndung’u Land Report, they should not demolish anybody’s house including the one for Sen. Malalah which is rumored to be on riparian land. It is just a rumor in the newspapers. He is the one who can tell us if it is true or not.
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, it was given prominence in the newspapers. Now that Sen. Malalah has clarified that his house is not on riparian land, then I do not have a problem with him.
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Why should I withdraw a rumor?
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I have said, and I will try and use very simple English, that do not demolish anybody’s house especially the downtrodden, no matter the rumors. Then I added that if Sen. Malalah’s house which is rumored--- He knows about this rumor because it was given prominence in the newspapers that his house is rumored to be on riparian land. So, if the newspapers were writing such stories and he has clarified that the stories are false, then what is the issue about? Is it not a fact that it was covered?
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
What will I be withdrawing, Madam Temporary Speaker?
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, we must also be factual. It is very unfortunate because we have to discuss this. When I say the simple English meaning of the word rumored cannot have a different meaning only because I am speaking about a colleague. I have said that we have read elsewhere that so-and-so’s house is on riparian land. What am I supposed to withdraw?
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, because I do not have newspaper cuttings here, I went online in order to further understand the source of this rumor. The report I am reading is that, there is a chairman of Western Land Alliance Owners, a gentleman by the name Ayub Maleche, who I want to believe Sen. Malalah knows. He has been mentioned as having sought the Senator to clear himself from such allegations. Therefore, what is out or order? I said I have not confirmed whether it is true or not.
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, so that the House makes progress, I want to withdraw the rumor that Sen. Malalah’s house is on riparian land. As to the facts of it, it is only him who can help us. I wish I could withdraw the house also from being on riparian land.
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to lend my support to this Bill. I am a member of the Senate Committee on Finance and Budget. It is unfortunate that as a Committee we have not concluded our Report to be able to table it before the House. As a Member of the Committee, my thoughts are richly filled up with the deliberations and discussions that went on during the public hearing phase of this particular Bill where we had organs and groups come before us to deliberate and discuss the Bill.
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