Amos Wako

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• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: children, even if it means to look after one or two. Imagine if every Senator was looking after five children. That would mean that about 300 children are looked after in this country. My plea is that the country should take the issue of the rights of children very seriously. The things that have occurred, investigated and whose recommendations I support should be condemned. However, we should go further than that and proceed to ensure that children in this country enjoy their rights as enshrined in the Constitution. In fact, the Constitution particularly says that children should not be detained. ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. I would like to begin by congratulating my colleagues; the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. James Aggrey Orengo, my fellow Senior Counsel, Sen. Omogeni, son of his father and my junior, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., for successfully pursuing this case before the court. I am quite sure that it is the formidable arguments from them and the submissions that were made that compelled the court to make this sterling judgement. I would also like to congratulate the petitioners, including you, Mr. Speaker, for the courage you had in taking this ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in Senate: We must insist on having two certificates as stipulated in Article110 (3) of the Constitution which states that: ‘Before either House considers a Bill, the Speakers of the National Assembly and Senate shall jointly resolve any question as to whether it is a Bill concerning counties and, if it is, whether it is a special or an ordinary Bill.’ We would like to have certificates on all Bills stating that the two Speakers have met and considered the Bill in question and jointly agreed on whether a Bill concerns counties or not. That consensus should be reached by the two ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in Senate: going forward, the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights will prevail. Another point, which I had forgotten is that, before the Speaker meets the Speaker of the other House to find out whether this Bill touches on the counties, the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights should have gone through it and advised the Speaker on the matter. Again, I think that our procedures will be able to take that into account. I congratulate you all. The Speaker has told us that it may go to the High Court and the team can ... view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will take two minutes. 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
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: In the Statement that we will be given by the Ministry, can they let us know the state of preparedness for when the 8-4-4 schools reopen on Monday and the next intake? It may be a period of a month or two, I do not know. I would want to know what will happen during that period to ensure that the schools are prepared for that other intake. I accept that the Ministry had to make the hard decision, and they made it. In fact, teachers went to schools about a week ago. Therefore, it will be two weeks before ... view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to speak on this very important Bill. One of the shame in implementing our Constitution has been this section on Equalization Fund. This requirement by our Constitution to have an Equalization Fund to cover marginalized communities; marginalized because of the history of those communities, indigenous communities, pastoral communities and so on. This is an Article of our Constitution that ought to have been implemented right from the word, go. The Constitution requires that 0.5 per cent of the revenue collected by the national Government must each year be paid into ... view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: In fact, if I may check, they have allocated more than Kshs9 billion, but those have not been disbursed. Now this section has not been implemented. Had it been implemented in the last ten years, at least the marginalized areas would have gotten something. When the Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA) began implementing this particular section, they made a mistake. They thought marginalized areas were marginalized counties. The Constitution does not talk about marginalized counties. It talks about marginalized areas. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very important Bill. That is why I have stayed up to now at least ... view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I am reminded. Thank you very much for reminding me on that one. I am reminded that when anybody became a governor during the colonial times, they were given the title “Sir”. That also applied to ladies at 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
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: that time. I have to catch up with time and come into the age of the “ Mzungu ” so that I just refer to you as “Madam”. Let me just come briefly. I have mentioned the point about marginalized groups which I feel should also be taken into account. I was coming to the point of 0.5 per cent. I think time has now come maybe in a constitutional amendment to increase this 0.5 per cent to 1 per cent. I think 0.5 per cent is a bit too low taking into account the magnitude of the problems that ... view