Erick Okong'o Mogeni

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• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I think the Chairperson for the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights is not gender sensitive. What a man can do, a lady can even do better. I laud that initiative by the Chairperson. I hope you can summon all the constitutional bodies that are supposed to ensure that there is accountability from our police force. As we look at legal reforms, let us put it in the law that any police officer who is convicted of having been involved in extrajudicial killings should personally compensate the families. These police officers know that when you ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue that has been raised by Sen. Halake is very important. This is an issue that needs to be escalated to the office of the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI). This is because what happens in most of these counties is that any time there is a visit by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) or the DCI, there is a fire outbreak and often times it is in the finance offices. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: The DCI should appear before this House and tell us whether investigations around the offences of arson have been done in any of these counties and there have been any recommendations to have the culprits arrested and charged in courts of law. This is just a scheme of some very unscrupulous people in counties to ensure that they destroy evidence, so that any attempt to nail them on corruption cases does not succeed. It is a very serious matter, and I hope that the Committee will not just stop at meeting some ‘small people’ here and there. They should meet ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. At times, desperate situations require desperate measures as long as they are done within the confines of the Constitution and the rule of law. So, for me, as a lawyer, if what was done yesterday is supported by our Constitution and by our laws, I am in full support. Let us not trivialize a very important article in our Constitution. Article 187 has a rider. Discretion is given to the two levels of Government. There are functions that can be transferred to another level of government if the other level of government can perform ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in Senate: Noted, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. As Senators, as long as we have not breached the Constitution or statute and as long as what has been done is in the best interest of the people of Nairobi, we should support. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to congratulate Sen. Khaniri for raising this very important matter. We all know that the national Government has not paid pending bills. Courts of law have issued decrees for the Government to pay some of the pending bills that it has failed to pay. A very good example is the of the family of the late second political liberation hero, Hon. Matiba, who had a decree from a court, but he went to the grave before the national Government could settle it. That is a pending bill. Nobody has wielded a ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: I think we are going the wrong way. I am a Senior Counsel. I have never seen any statute or any section of the Constitution that gives powers to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the National Treasury and Planning to withhold money to counties on the basis of pending bills. If we were to enforce this Constitution, we need to summon him here to tell us who has given him these powers of becoming a prefect over the Government. Article 6 is very clear that we have two levels of governments. We have the national Government and county governments. We ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is no way one level of Government can micromanaging another level of Government. We should conduct our businesses in a decent manner. We all come from these counties. If you have pleasure from the people who have elected to provide medicine to hospitals, pay salaries to doctors or nurses, which one would you give priority? You will definitely ensure hospitals have medicine, pay salaries and then you deal with pending bills. You can even have arrangement with the people who have provided services in counties to be paid in installments. The idea of saying that ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thought you would first give me a chance to comment on the Statement sought by Sen. Cherargei. Is that in order? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I request for more time I acquaint myself with that amendment, unless there is somebody else. view