Cheptumo William Kipkiror

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Feb 2023 in Senate: I listened to your Communication carefully. It gave me the impression that you were ready to issue it before the House, but you were stopped by the court order. Listening to the submissions by colleagues, I would like to refer this House to Article 2 of the Constitution. This Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic and binds all persons and State organs at both levels of Government. view
• 21 Feb 2023 in Senate: Parliament, in my submission, is one of the State organs. Therefore, it is bound by this Constitution. I refer Members to Article 159(1) of the Constitution on judicial authority. It says: “Judicial authority is derived from the people and vests in, and shall be exercised by, the courts and tribunals established by or under this Constitution.” Article 159(2) says: “In exercising judicial authority, the courts and tribunals shall be guided by the following principles— (a) justice shall be done to all, irrespective of status;” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in 2010 when the new Constitution was inaugurated, I was serving as ... view
• 21 Feb 2023 in Senate: 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
• 21 Feb 2023 in Senate: Executive. This Constitution cannot be applied selectively, but fairly and constitutionally, if it is protecting the interests of a Member. I listened to Sen. Omogeni during his submissions and he pleaded with you not to demean the status of the House. There is nothing worse than for the Speaker of this House to disobey court orders, from an institution that has the power to issue a court order that can stop us. It is important that we allow this process to proceed, so that they go back and handle their matters. As Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale said, we have only two ... view
• 21 Feb 2023 in Senate: On a point of information, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir! view
• 21 Feb 2023 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is raising is a concern. view
• 21 Feb 2023 in Senate: I thought it is good to just share that once a Member raises a question or a Statement, we take up the issues with the relevant ministry. When a written answer is obtained from the ministry, it is shared with the Member. view
• 21 Feb 2023 in Senate: If there are issues that are not sufficiently responded to in the Statement, then we still do a further inquiry from the department. That is what happens in this House. It is interesting that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has not got a Statement from the relevant Committee two months after he raised the question. The problem here is the procedure we used to inform Members on the responses from the ministries. It is not how we used to do in the other House as you recall. You and I were Committee Chairs and we used to read those Statements before the ... view
• 16 Feb 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. I recognize that this House can manage its own agenda. I am reminded of those days before the Constitution, 2010 when this House could be controlled from outside. Today, we have the capacity, the legal framework to manage our calendar, the timeframe to be in the House, to be on recess, and so on. Therefore, it is good progress. We have seen the Calendar. I support. view
• 16 Feb 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I wish to thank the Senator for his Statement. I support this Statement because across the country, there have been serious complaints on the fact that initially, the delocalization programme was meant to achieve a very important principle of ensuring that we can be able to exchange teachers in various counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for instance in Baringo County we have had a challenge of insecurity where teachers posted from other regions are unable to teach in those schools which are facing security threats. Due to this, we have had a number of ... view