16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Our complaint to the Senate is that the Deputy President has undermined devolution.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
We say so because there was a lawful decision by the Nairobi City County.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
The Nairobi City County made a resolution to relocate traders from the Central Business District (CBD) to Kangundo Road. The Deputy President, through evidence that we have---
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Yes and because the Senate is a House that is created under Article 96 to protect the interests of counties would take notice that markets, under Schedule 4, is an exclusive function of counties.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Yes, Video No.12 and 13, where Members of the Senate shortly, will see that the Deputy President went to Wakulima Market and incited members of the public not to obey lawful directives of the Nairobi City County. We have also, as part of our evidence, annexed the sworn affidavit of Hon. Johnson Sakaja, the Governor of Nairobi City County, with averments to that effect. This is on page 81 to 85 of our Volume 1.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
It is impeachable in the sense that two levels of the government have been assigned their roles and functions under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. The Constitution under Article 6 requires the two levels of the government, much as they are interdependent, also respect their functional independence. If a county government makes a decision, it is upon them to implement that decision. Much as Nairobi is the cosmopolitan capital city of Kenya when the Deputy President went there, he addressed Kenyans in his native language.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
It is not consistent. The expectation was that through the inter-governmental relations framework that is already established in law, there would have been a formula to deal with that issue outside the rally.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
We have the Intergovernmental Relations Act and it would be expected the Deputy President being the Chair of the Intergovernmental Relations Committee and also the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC); he would have exercised his responsibility under the law and those responsibilities to call a meeting with the City County of Nairobi to deliberate on those issues, and if indeed there were complaints from the citizens of Nairobi in a manner that is consistent with the formal running of a government.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, and hon. Senators, is gross violation of Article 161 of the Constitution; specifically undermining the institutional and independence of the judges.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
My understanding of gross violation of the Constitution, I do not whether I will be speaking in my knowledge as a lawyer.
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