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• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Let me contribute a little bit to the issues raised by the Leader of the Majority Party because they are weighty. I can see that he still has a working brain despite the beating that I gave him in Kajiado yesterday. view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: He looked very miserable. I thank him for being magnanimous to think of the image of our institution. We are dealing with weighty matters in the current times. There seems to be an attempt for us to go to the dungeons. There seems to be a very concerted effort coming from all corners. I watched the Members of the Senate on national television. Having perused through the Bills and seen the automatic requirement that they will be moving horizontally to the Senate, the pronouncements were meant to start an argument, which should not have been there in the first place. ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: not good for either of the Houses. I want to plead with you to do it soberly because we are setting precedent. The issues raised were about our own Members flouting our Standing Orders and our own utterances in public about issues which are live before Parliamentary Committees or on the Floor of the House. There is too much noise. However, the noise is amongst the accused. There is too much noise particularly in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The noise is amongst the accused Members. When a matter is before this House, even if it did not involve Members ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: In my language, they say there is no smoke where there is no fire - Onge iro view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I withdraw the vernacular bit. I was just making it simpler for translators. Nevertheless, I had already qualified it by saying that it is a saying in my language. However, I withdraw the vernacular part. There is smoke where there is fire. Even some Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) are making noise and calling the investigating Committee “a kangaroo court” and yet, it is a standing Committee of this House. It is one of the oldest Committees in any parliament. Do those going live on TV and radio, calling the investigating Committee “a kangaroo court” expect ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I say this with all humility and respect to our colleagues. As I have said, this is a good time for both sides of this House to agree to dissolve the Committees that do not know their work. When they want to discuss graft, or how to protect each from the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: consequences of graft, they send the committee clerks out of the meeting venue. There is no parliamentary committee without a clerk. There is no secret in the work of a committee. I said it and I got a lot of blame from my colleagues. I said that we must be careful about the issue of rent-seeking from people who have power. We have constitutional powers to do the right thing. We cannot allow 20 or 27 out of 29 people to bring down 349 people. Some of us are here just because of our blameless names. That applies to the ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the first thing we are asking you to do is this: You must set your officers to tell you which hon. Member has been talking negatively about us and about you in the last few days and deal with them in accordance with the Standing Orders. It is not a new thing. Deal with the matter because if you do not, it will be the order of the day. It will be business as usual. Today, the Speaker is hon. Justin Muturi. Tomorrow it will be hon. so and so. It is the Chair. It is not a ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it is good; we do not fear you. If I know that there is something wrong, I will stand here on a point of order and tell you that it is wrong. It is up to you to agree with it. When it comes to a situation where you are not defending on Communications you have made on the Chair, those are the property of this House. A Communication made from that Chair by you or by any of your deputies is guidance, on the HANSARD, for the eternity of this House, unless it is changed. Therefore, I ... view
• 17 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. view