28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise on a point of order under Standing Order No. 83 to seek your guidance on whether the timelines as posed in Article 256 of the Constitution on amendment by a parliamentary initiative on the 90 days for calling of the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill for Second reading apply. Hon. Speaker, as you are aware, Article 257 of the Constitution is silent on timelines and stages for consideration of the Bill. Indeed, Article 57 of the Constitution only applies Article The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is ...
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
256(4) in respect to assent of the Bill and hence Article 256(1) may not apply. For clarity purposes, in this case, are we in order to proceed to consider the Bill for Second Reading in light of the timelines as set out in Article 256(1) of 90 days? Hon. Speaker, I also want to seek your guidance on whether a Bill to amend the Constitution can be amended as seen from the Joint Report of the National Assembly Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and the Senate Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. The Report of ...
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I am seeking your guidance.
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
I was seeking your guidance because you are intelligent, well informed and a mobile encyclopedia when it comes to the Constitution.
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Mbadi, shut up!
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I agree and I am well guided.
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I am rising on Standing Order No. 95 that, judging by the mood of the House, we are all discussing the same issue and everybody is speaking the same thing and there are no amendments. So, I am requesting that the Mover be called upon to reply.
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
I really want to ask you and seek your guidance if indeed this Bill is in this House through the front door or the back door. In a popular initiative, it is assumed that it is an initiative from the ordinary Kenyan citizen, from Wanjiku. From all description, the Handshake brothers, even Junet and whoever is promoting this Bill is not Wanjiku, is not an ordinary Kenyan. They had an opportunity. If it is my President and my party leader, he had a representative in this House in the name of the Leader of the Majority Party, that is Amos ...
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
She used a lot of English.
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
Do you mean any Kenyan, including the President and the Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga who is the former Prime Minister, is an ordinary Kenyan? Even army officers are ordinary Kenyans. I am learning now, today. From all description I thought they are not ordinary Kenyans. They had an opportunity. Mbadi is here to stand in for Raila Odinga. Thank you for your guidance.
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