2 May 2023 in Senate:
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2 May 2023 in Senate:
has been prepared by the Committee. These are 1,761 Rules and Regulations. Some of them are critical, cutting from aviation to agriculture and many others that will facilitate. Legal Notice No.217, Statutory Instrument Act No.23 of 2013 and extension on rules that were sort, should not suffice legally because it does not hold water. The recommendations of the Committee be annulled. You cannot cherry pick. I know when some Government officers appear before the National Assembly, they imagine that they should not appear before the Senate. We had that problem in the last Parliament and we cannot allow that to ...
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2 May 2023 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, Article 93 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 says that Parliament is the Senate and the National Assembly. I am the least person to advise the Attorney General because he is more senior than some of us. However, Article 93 of the Constitution is very clear. Having served as the Speaker and Member of Parliament (MP), he should be aware.
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2 May 2023 in Senate:
Finally, we need to republish because there are many organisations that are as illegal as at now. I had indicated that it is due to the number of rules and regulations that are there. Colleagues, I urge us to move ahead and ensure we follow the rule of law. We are exercising all these on behalf of the people. The powers that we have been given is lawmaking powers. There is nowhere in this country where they have the privileges that parliamentarians have. We can make, amend, annul and nullify the law. We enjoy those powers that have been given ...
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2 May 2023 in Senate:
Let me call it Senate of justice. We went through Parliament Road, General Post Office (GPO) and Valley Road up to Milimani Law Courts before Justice Weldon Korir. We were challenging more than 24 legislations that had been assented by the former President, Uhuru Kenyatta, without the concurrence of the Senate.
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2 May 2023 in Senate:
This House has come from far. We drafted those pleadings courtesy of and with the support of the secretariat then. I can see most of the people in the Table Office lead by Mr. Zakayo Mogere and my sisters here, were there. The name Zakayo has another meaning on the streets. We walked to Milimani High Court. The Senate has been fighting to survive from 2013. I ask you, my colleagues, the fight is still on; aluta continua. For the Senate to have a position in this Parliament and to be respected, we have had to fight many hurdles and ...
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2 May 2023 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, being an immediate former Secretary General (SG) of the ruling party, you know that. Thank God, the President of the Republic of Kenya holds the Senate in the highest esteem. That is why the Senate needs to thrive during this
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2 May 2023 in Senate:
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2 May 2023 in Senate:
Session because we have the blessings of the highest office in the land to do our job. We are not saying the support of the President means that the Senate should not do its job in any way. We are doing it, but complimentarily and in a symbiotic relationship.
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2 May 2023 in Senate:
In Form Two Biology, there was something called symbiosis. There is that symbiotic relationship between the Executive, Parliament and the Judiciary. So, the survival and the fight of the Senate is still on. Even on the Division of Revenue, we have been seeking the assistance of the Supreme Court since 2013. In fact, there was a time they said that the Senate should not be involved in the budget making process. We went to the Supreme Court and they said involvement of the Senate must be there.
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