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• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: The drafters of this Constitution intended a legislative mandate to be a preserve of the National Assembly that has also been provided for specifically in this Constitution. There is the other approach where under Articles 93, 94, 95, and 96 the mandate of the Houses has been limited specifically in the Constitution. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: When it comes to this issue of national debt borrowing by the national Government, my argument has always been that this is a mandate that is co-shared by the two Houses. We know the practice in the Commonwealth. If there is a practice that has been followed by a House of Parliament successfully each year, then that acquires the force of law. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: I remember the last time we were here as a Senate, we engaged in a serious debate on raising the debt ceiling that was considered by the National Assembly and the Senate. Therefore, we must guard against any attempt of taking away that mandate from the Senate. This is because, if you read plainly the provisions of Article 211 of the Constitution, it starts by saying- view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: ‘(1) Parliament may, by legislation- (a) prescribe the terms on which the national government may borrow; and view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: (b) impose reporting requirements.’ view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: Therefore, on the plain reading of Article 211, there is no way a proposed legislation can limit the reporting obligation to be a preserve of the National Assembly. We should never allow that. I hope the Chair, whom I have commended many times, has made an appropriate amendment to ensure that, that mandate remains a mandate of the two Houses. Anything short of that will be unconstitutional. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: The Supreme Court has made so many pronouncements, especially in the Advisory Opinion 2 of 2013. It says that it is actually us, as a House, through our Speaker, that can give away our legislative mandate. The argument of the Supreme Court is that virtually each and every legislation affects counties. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: I say so because even if you go back to borrowing, we all know that our national debt is always the first charge when we come to share our revenue. The debt must be removed first. Whatever remains is what we share. Therefore, if we allow our Government to borrow in a manner that is not properly managed, it means we will not have enough money to share with our counties. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: We say these things here. At times we say them jokingly, but they come back to bite us. On Thursday, if you recall, on this Floor, I did mention that our Governors should take issues of health facilities seriously. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: Yesterday, three Members of County Assembly (MCAs) from my County of Nyamira were travelling to Nairobi City for a meeting and got involved in a road accident before Mai Mahiu. One of the MCAs, who is the County Assembly Majority Leader waited for over one hour to get help. The ambulance that was called took more than two hours to arrive and we lost him. They were taken to Naivasha Level Four Hospital, which has no Computerised Tomography (CT) scan or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). We had to look for view