10 Feb 2020 in Senate:
In Ukambani, especially in Machakos, it was the late President Moi who did a lot in terms of academics, by establishing especially girls’ schools. He also did a lot of
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10 Feb 2020 in Senate:
for churches. Electricity was connected to schools such as Kavaa, where you attended my father’s burial.
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10 Feb 2020 in Senate:
Every person has his flaws. Even when you open some of the books of history, in Catholicism, you will find popes classified as good and bad. The late President Moi is not one of the bad former Presidents. He is one the best. May he join the angels in the other world and even say hi to my dad.
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10 Feb 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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29 Jan 2020 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Perhaps my senior colleague, Mr. Mbuthi Gathenji, is referring to the pending and controversial list of senior counsels which is before the court.
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29 Jan 2020 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I disagree with Senior Counsel Omogeni with regard to what he is trying to tell this Senate. You have ruled that there is no extension of time to submit their evidence. What other evidence does he require the counsels representing the Governor of Kiambu County to present other than arguing the four critical points on the appeal?
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29 Jan 2020 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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29 Jan 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Maybe for those who are lawyers here, in the usual university courses, there is a paper known as Family Law. There is a landmark case known as Case vs. Ruguru where the issue of capacity was called in question where a white man who did not have capacity travelled to Kenya and married a Kikuyu lady. The issue was that they were nullifying the marriage. The court thought that the process of ruracio was not followed.
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29 Jan 2020 in Senate:
here means as the Senator for Nyeri County has said, it is a Kikuyu process of--- This is not a semantic like we said. It is a customary requirement which the parties undergo. If it was Kikamba, I would give the meaning, but it is not an issue here.
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29 Jan 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I am disturbed as a practitioner of law for the last 28 years. As much as a lawyer, I would have wanted to help my brother, Gov. Waititu. I am reserved on why documents were not filed within time. All the lawyers know that we have two systems of law. We have the substantive and procedural law. Substantive law deals with the positive law while procedural law, which is what we are dealing with, deals with procedure. That procedure is founded in specific Acts of Parliament, for example, civil procedure ...
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