Erick Okong'o Mogeni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: So, we need to make clear to Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale that, in India, what is in Article 368 of the Indian Constitution, at least going by the Supreme Court's ruling in the Supreme Court of India in 1973, in their Constitution, you cannot do any amendments touching on for instance Clause 25(A) on the supremacy of the Constitution. However, I think the finding of the Supreme Court is that the only protection that Kenyans have been given is to protect certain Articles to be amended only subject to a referendum, whereof you must get the approval of Kenyans. It is ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the House of Representatives in the USA serves for two years and their Senators serve for six years. Again, they use the same model. You protect the Senate by ensuring that not all Senators exit in an election because you need institutional memory. If you go to Japan, it is even more conscious on protecting the Senate. They call it the House of Councillors. The Upper House, with 265 Members. In Japan, if the House is dissolved because there is a vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister, only the House of Representatives goes home. ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: There, the mandate is very clear. It is donated to that House called the National Assembly in 250 (2)(b). However, if you read the one, I have just read; 249(3), it uses the word ‘Parliament’. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let our brothers in the National Assembly appreciate that this Constitution gives us shared mandates. There is mandate that is reserved for the National Assembly and there is mandate that is shared by the two Houses. Permit me to say something about this issue of gender. Firstly, at NADCO we never dealt with the issue of gender. It was isolated to ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. To back the point that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale was making on the issue of nominated Members of Parliament, in Uganda, even the people who represent the youths are subjected to an election. The people who represent workers are elected. Their names appear in the ballot and they are subjected to a competitive election. Only those who gather the majority votes find their way to Parliament. I agree fully that we now have the opportunity to look into all these matters much more deeply and not in a cosmetic manner so that we provide an ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: should not be a debate for Members of the National Assembly to say that NG-CDF must be entrenched in the Constitution and that they will be the only people in Parliament who will deal with the issue of allocating the budget for those offices. If we do that, future generations will note that there were men and women of wisdom when the first amendments to the Constitution of Kenya 2010 went through. Finally, we should not fear amending the Constitution. I used to hear people say that the American Constitution has never been amended. It has been amended several times. ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Certainly, Sen. Olekina is not here. Maybe there is a technical hitch with the screen. I first begin by thanking Sen. Joyce Chepkoech Korir who is the sponsor of the County Library Services Bill (Senate Bills No.40 of 2024). From the onset say it is a good initiative that calls for the support of all of us. I recall that in the 1980s, because we were not so privileged to buy all the books that we needed in our studies, we used to benefit from libraries. Not all schools had libraries but some of ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: So let us also try to incorporate digitization and technology in this Bill so that maybe we expand our cable network to our counties. From counties, it goes to sub-counties so that people in Osamaru Ward, in West Mugirango Constituency in Nyamira can be connected to the internet and their children can do research from the phones. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Korir, nowadays some children will be more passionate about getting a phone maybe more than spending time travelling to Kisii to get a library. They know that they can get all the information they need on the internet. ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: The committee shall consist of- (a) The county executive committee member responsible for library services who shall be the chairperson; (b) two persons who shall be distinguished academics appointed by the county governor; and, (c) two persons who have demonstrable knowledge in library and information science and at least five years' experience in the provision of library services appointed by the county governor.” Sen. Korir, you are proposing that two other persons who have demonstrated knowledge in library, again appointed by county governor. I mean, why should we allow governors to take the bragging rights of appointing all these board ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: appointment and goes. You can be innovative; we can have the Women's Representative select one person to sit in the selection panel of the board, then have the office of Senator send one person to sit in the selection panel, the governor sends one, and then the chairperson can be the Chairperson of the CPSB, so that we have a process that is fair, distributive and that accommodates all the leaders within the county. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am excited with what is in Clause 3(d), that we need to preserve our cultural heritage. I have tried to look ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are the people's representatives in this House. Nobody can speak for all the residents of the county of Bomet, Laikipia, Kakamega or Nyamira. Since these things have been brought to our attention, we must address them. I am sorry to digress a bit, but I support Sen. Korir on this Bill. I also want to say something. Maybe you can consider what is in Clause 9(2). I am not seeing clarity there. The clause says, that before the removal of a member under sub-clause 1 (f), the county governor shall request the committee to give ... view