19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
As the National Assembly and the Senate, we should come out very strong and find out what these governors are hiding. If it is money they have misappropriated, and I tell the National Assembly, even if it is Kshs1 million, that is a lot of money. This is the case when you talk about mwananchi at the grassroots who never ate last night or the roads that have not yet been fixed since last year.
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19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has come out very strongly and told us to obey the court order and yet we know that the LSK should, first, put its house in order. We know all those witnesses who are going to The Hague to ridicule us and stand in front of judges having no words to say what has been collected by the LSK to go and testify at The Hague. This is the case and yet they give conflicting information.
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19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
Finally, when they are cornered they say that they were paid to go and say this and that. Why can the LSK, first, not put its house in order? Everybody should take his or her responsibility seriously. The LSK should stay away from our matters. We know the work we were given and we are executing our duties. They should also do the same and not bribe witnesses to go to The Hague. They should stop collecting witnesses every day and taking them to The Hague.
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19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, we all know that the orders they are telling us to obey are unconstitutional. We know which orders we should obey. The county assemblies were given responsibility by the Constitution to impeach governors. There is no way we can wake up tomorrow on Thursday, we come to the House to transact our business and then we are told that there is a court order retraining us from conducting that business. We cannot allow that. We are telling the Judiciary that they better stick to their work that they were given.
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19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
By the way, we should not be seated here arguing over what we should do next. They are unconstitutional orders and we are panicking and wondering what should happen to who? Every time an order is given and we have executed our duty, our lives The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
hang around the judges. All Kenyans know that those orders were unconstitutional because that day, the county assembly woke up, they went and exercised their mandate, they finished their duty and handed over the matter to the Senate which has done the same. We hear that they have rushed to court to get court orders. They have run to the court to stop who from doing which business?
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19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, if they reinstate Governor Wambora, he would better go and sit with them because the county assembly of Embu spoke the day they impeached him and the Senate ruled so the other day. So, we will stick to whatever we have either in the National Assembly or at the Senate.
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19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I will finish by saying that if all of us rush to courts to get court orders even when we are told that we have to come and account how we have spent money, it means that we are losing it. It also means that we do not have targets to achieve. Hon. Speaker, if you are proceeding there and they do not want to meet you, we also do not want to meet them.
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19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Speaker.
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18 Feb 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I stand to support the amendment and I want to say that Uwezo Fund is long overdue. Since the President launched it, people have been visiting our offices and we have been promising them that the money is on the way. It has taken long but it is finally here. Women and youth have given their groups and so we will not waste a month. The money will already be where it was intended to go and training will take place. So, I support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. ...
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