28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I congratulate Sen. George Khaniri who is a senior member of this House. He is also my very good neighbor because we share a common border. I am happy that I am contributing to this Bill. I thank him for bringing such a Bill. From where I sit, this is a very important Bill. My colleagues have espoused that it is timely. These are legislations that we are bringing into place to try to buttress, flesh and oil the wheels of devolution of in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, I suffered the ...
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28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
That is why I am a passionate defender and supporter of this Bill. I know that most governors, with the excitement of the titles---
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28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Yes, I can, Madam Temporary Speaker. I meant my eyes and hands. My hands and legs can now work very well. There was a Senator in this House, Sen. Shiyonga, who talked about ‘scooping;’ so, the use of such areas is very important because if they would have been attacked, then I would not have had an opportunity of exposing what God gave us in Genesis 1:28, when he told us:- “God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds ...
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28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, if my good Senator from Migori – Sen. Mbogo George Ochillo-Ayacko, the former Waziri – can see me in camera for further elaboration so that he can understand .
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28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
We will not go into details because the children are watching. This is a parental guidance issue. It is not good to say such things on the Floor of the House. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have looked at the functions under Clause 6 which ensure compliance of all county laws. There are many laws that our county governments pass. Sometimes, it is challenging to always pass them. I agree with most of my colleagues that some of these issues have exposed the excitement of titles by governors. Huge resources and good intentions of having enforcement officers can sometimes mutate. Some ...
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28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, on the issue of legal compliance with all county revenue collection requirements, I think they are doing it but we do not want to be over zealous. Sometimes the fight that comes with paying cess, royalties and landlords, for instance in Nandi, we have a problem where cess has not been paid for some time. However, these matters should be taken to the courts of law. I think they have been doing their work. Last week when we were in Mombasa for the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) meeting, some of the concerns the private sector raised, ...
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28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 8 talks about where an enforcement officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that any property has been--- I agree with this that you need any other law. The enforcement may make an application to the relevant court, to seize that property and for other relevant order. My good Senator, Professor Kabaka, senior counsel and a renowned scholar, will agree that we need to protect human rights. The right to property is so sacred.
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28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not know why Professor Langat, a former lecturer in Moi University, is shouting behind me. You need to protect me. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to protect the right to property. That is constitutionally provided, even that trolley that belongs to sukuma wiki and tomato sellers. County askaris descend on helpless women and tear their clothes, cart away their mangoes, kales, trollies and destroy their property. They have so much power than even the President of this country. They just walk into your house and decide that they need ---
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28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Sen. (Dr.) Langat is refusing the blessings. I come from the Talai; people that can see the future. You know he taught me, so I thought with time you earn papers and upgrade. You grow from a doctor to a professor, but now he is declining the blessings. I know he is a man of God. Maybe he is still consulting God on the way forward. However, I apologize. It should have been Dr. Lang’at. I am sorry for that hitch. So, as I was saying the right to property is so sacred that it ...
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28 Nov 2018 in Senate:
find out whether they have complied or paid and where their licenses are, as Sen. Wetangula said. Madam Temporary Speaker, you can add me one more minute so that I canvass Clause 9.
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