Erick Okong'o Mogeni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I thank all the contributors to this Motion. They include Senior Counsel Sen. Orengo, Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki, my learned friend Sen.(Dr.) Ochillo- Ayacko and Sen. Linturi. I appreciate the kind words from my colleague Senators. I reiterate that as a lawyer I have been privileged to rise and serve my country as the President of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). Therefore, there is not title that I wear more proudly than being a defender of the rule of law. In a situation such as the one at hand, I have no choice other ... view
• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on a matter that is touching on the independence of a key institution like the Judiciary, I cannot afford to have divided allegiance to the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. On a day like this, 11th November, 2021, having been privileged to be elected the Senator for Nyamira County, I will want my grandchildren to know that when I was view
• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: confronted with a choice between ignoring the rule of law, or standing on the side of the rule of law, I chose to stand on the side of the rule of law. When confronted with a situation where I could have chosen to have divided allegiance to the Constitution, I chose to bear true allegiance to the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. view
• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the contributors who spoke in support of this Motion. As lawyers serving in this House, we must continue to remind the Executive to respect and uphold the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya, which we have all sworn to bear allegiance to and respect. view
• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: I cannot agree more with what my learned colleague, Sen. Orengo, has said this afternoon, about the brilliance of some of the names of the people who have been proposed to be judges. I want to disclose that some of these proposed judges were with me at the University of Nairobi (UoN). The proposed Justice, Evans Kiago Makori, a native of Ibacho Village in Kisii County, was my classmate. He is one of the few students that won our admiration in the class of 1990 to 1993. Mr. Makori is an inspiration from his village back home. From Form One ... view
• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you can hear that confirmation from Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko, that we are talking about lawyers of high integrity; people who enjoy a lot of respect among their peers. Justice Odunga was one class ahead of me and he led a very simple life. He struggled to find his way to university. He is one of those few Kenyans who maybe would not have made it to university if there was no Higher Education Loans Board view
• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: (HELB), to assist Kenyan students from poor backgrounds to go through higher education. If you talk to lawyers, just as it was submitted on this Floor by Sen. Orengo, Justice Odunga has written one of the most brilliant judgments you can ever find in the High Court. Well- reasoned and written judgments comparable to a leading judge, Judge Odenyo in the legal profession. The same can be said of the other judges. Judge Weldon Korir was a pioneer in the judicial review and constitutional division. I have appeared before Justice Korir and lost some cases. It was not because he ... view
• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on many of the evenings when the impeachment was going on, he would call members of his Democratic Party for dinner and tea at the White House, so as to influence them in voting for impeachment of Hon. Chase. Since the Senators were mindful of how important it was to have an independent Judiciary, they disagreed with their party boss and voted to reject the impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase. That went a long way in maintaining the independence of the Supreme Court and the entire judiciary in the United States of America. view
• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt had a commanding majority. In fact, out of 435 Members of the House of Representatives, the Republic Party had only 89. The rest – 333- were Democrats. In the Senate, out of 100, the President had 76 Senators from the Democratic Party. The sitting arrangement could not fit one side of the House, and so, the democrats had to sit on the other side of the Republicans. President Roosevelt was annoyed by some of the decisions the Supreme Court was making because it was nullifying some of the New Deal decisions ... view
• 11 Nov 2021 in Senate: depression that had hit America hard at that time. However, some of them were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. To deal with that “big-headedness” from the Supreme Court, President Roosevelt proposed to amend the Constitution by increasing the number of Supreme Court judges to six more, so that he could pick his own judges to dilute the independence of that court and stop declaring his legislations unconstitutional. view