Amos Wako

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not pleading with anybody. All I am asking is can they go and plead with the governor to come. Yes, I cannot plead, but we summon. However, I can show you somebody whom I know has the ear of the governor to come. This is exactly what I a am doing. The Governor for Machakos County was--- view
• 29 Nov 2016 in Senate: The Governor for Machakos County was with us yesterday and is coming again tomorrow. He said that if he does not, he will come next week. He is now ready and has now seen that we engage in a constructive dialogue on these issues. Please, appeal to him. Otherwise, we may use our immense powers that the Speaker has talked about and just summon and arrest. view
• 24 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed the answer that we have received on the incident in Nandi County is inadequate and full of contradictions. I toured my countylast weekend where an incident happened where the police used live bullets that led to loss of life. When we inquired, we realized that the members of the public were annoyed with the police officers. This is because two security guards had been killed at a market place and the police officers went to investigate with dogs. The dogs sniffed the trail that led to the house of a particular Administration Police (AP) officer. That ... view
• 24 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am relating this incident because of the consistent use of live bullets by the police. How can a bullet shot in the air kill somebody? There is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate view
• 24 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to say one thing. We have had numerous instances of the use of live bullets throughout the country just as it happened in Nandi County because the attitude of the police is similar to the answer we have received. I would plead with the Committee led by a former Provincial Commissioner, to summon the Cabinet Secretary in charge internal security so that he can explain the Government policy on the use of guns and generally on what they are doing. view
• 24 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have asked my Vice-chair to move the Motion because of your directive about the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee. view
• 24 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I asked my Vice Chairperson to move the Motion because of the order that was given by the Speaker to the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC), that we continue to sit until we have a report for this House before we adjourn. I stayed on a bit because I noticed that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. is not here to support the Vice Chairperson. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you may recall that the first Statue Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill was passed by the National Assembly and brought to this House without any consideration whatsoever on ... view
• 24 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Speaker said that this is the first time we are considering this type of matter and he outlined the procedure. He said that if we reject the consideration, the Bill will go to mediation. Otherwise, if we consider it, it will mean that we go clause by clause. After we have amended it, it will go back to the National Assembly and we will not have achieved any purpose. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in other words, in order to save time on a Bill that we have already considered, we should not bother going item ... view
• 23 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I followed the debate on this matter in the National Assembly. The committee which is looking into the matter should also look into the issues of the interpretation of the law because the argument was that we had used the wrong procedure to promulgate those regulations. The Chairman of the sister Committee to the Committee chaired by the Senator for Nandi explained that one or two Members opposed that interpretation but the Senate Majority Leader agreed with the interpretation of the law. It made me to think of how everybody could have gone wrong on the application ... view
• 15 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak on this important Bill. It is a Bill that has been brought by the Chairperson of the Committee which deals not only with national defence but also foreign relations. It is appropriate that I speak on this Bill because I have just come from New York and last Friday, we had elections to the International Law Commission which is one of the five organs of the United Nations. The organs under the United Nations Charter include; the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the ... view