Erick Okong'o Mogeni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am making a very strong appeal to the leadership of the Judiciary to give some serious attention to such petitions. That is a very heavy constitutional petition that is in court. The best the Judiciary can do is to allocate time. We do want to influence the final finding. Let them give it priority and allocate it time, so that a decision can be made. It will be very unfortunate if in the next financial year we again go back to the debacle that we faced this financial year. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and I appeared on behalf of the Senate for the mediation. There was no mediation; we were just engaging in a shouting match. I would not want to be appointed to sit in mediation with the National Assembly if the calibre of people that will appear will include the likes of Hon. Duale and Nominated Member of Parliament, Hon. Sankok, who just hurls abuses at honourable Members of Parliament. That is not the way we need to conduct business. We need to have an approach that portrays us as leaders who can discuss issues soberly on ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: Secondly, I challenge this Senate. Let us have a two-pronged approach. If a solution cannot come from the Judiciary, let us go back to the people. We are 68 Senators here. How can we allow a man such as my good friend, Dr. Aukot, to go to the people, raise one million signatures and move an amendment to the Constitution, when we, the 68 of us, cannot do that? By a simple calculation, if we wanted to amend this Constitution through popular initiative and divided that initiative amongst the 68 Senators, all one needs to collect is less than 20,000 ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: This delay in disbursement of money and inadequacy of resources being send to counties resonates with the Members of County Assemblies. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: I am not seeing any challenge in us obtaining an approval from more than the 25 county assemblies. I challenge us, as Senators, to be bold. If push comes to shove, let us go back to the people. Let us draft a constitutional amendment, go back to the people, get the one million signatures and go for a referendum, so that we strengthen this Senate. Otherwise, history will never forgive us. Some of these things are happening because some people want to give a skewed interpretation to our Constitution. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: What is in Articles 90 and 94 about legislative authority being in the National Assembly and the Senate is in the same language as what is in the United States of America (USA) Congress and the Senate. It was copy pasted into our Constitution. If you go to the USA, the Senate has more say on issues dealing with appropriation of money than what we have here. What is happening here is because Members of the National Assembly have a fixated mind that Senators should not have any say on revenue sharing. How can we, seven years after enacting our ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: Madam Speaker, I have read in this Schedule that we are urging the county governments to act expeditiously--- view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is an infectious smile coming from my right. That is what is causing confusion. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am sorry. I make a correction. I read that county governments should expeditiously prepare and adopt the Annual Budget and Appropriation Bill to ensure service delivery. We can see the confusion that has been caused by this between the National Assembly and the Senate. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: There are some counties that have already passed their budgets and Appropriation Bill, in total defiance of Article 224 of the Constitution. How can we be a country that does not want to respect and adhere to constitutionalism? How can it be? This is something that we, as a House, should fight day and night to ensure that we bring to an end this confusion on how we should interpret and apply our Constitution. view