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• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: I wish to request an urgent Statement from the Committee on Lands and the Cabinet Secretary concerned with matters of land as a matter of urgency. Indulge me a bit, hon. Speaker. We used to have Questions by Private Notice of matters of an urgent nature. I stand before this House because of a matter that has come to my attention about a piece of land belonging to the Government of Kenya in the area called Community, right across the Courts. I have found out that it is about to be sold within 14 days. The same land is titled ... view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am going to table a document by S.M. Moi and Company Advocates to a Mr. Peter Jomba Gachina and David Kaletu Kasuku giving them an offer to pay within 14 days, Kshs1.1 billion of the said land and that that price is non- negotiable. If nothing is done, and if the Committee does not rush to do something about this, it will set a very bad trend about land. There is already too much noise about public land which is being stolen. I want the Committee to further check if there is any attempt to mortgage or ... view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Leader of Majority Party. I beg that you direct that the response comes on Tuesday because it will be 14 days from last week. If it goes beyond Tuesday, that land will have been sold and the public will now be grappling and spending more public money trying to chase a public good which we can save within a stipulated time. I thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Yes. view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon Speaker, sorry, I am rising on too many points of order. I just want to bring to your attention and the attention of the Procedure and House Rules Committee about the ruling which you issued before the House and the nation yesterday, as regards the Committee on General Oversight. You ruled that the Cabinet Secretaries will still be coming here every Tuesday and you said that the matter and the issue of how the House arrived at the ruling would be looked into by the Procedure and House Rules Committee. Having listened to that, I want to thank you ... view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: You said chungwa ! You seem to have been trying to find a solution but also to deal with a few issues in your ruling. One of the issues you wanted to deal with - and I would request you to deal with as the Chair of the Procedure and House Rules Committee - is the independence of Parliament. I did say yesterday that the Standing Orders are not a creation of the Speaker of the National Assembly or the Leader of Majority Party. It is unfortunate that this morning, as I watched the Cheche Programme on Citizen Television, there ... view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in trying to find a solution to the predicament, I want to refer you to a ruling made on 10th February, 2011 by hon. Marende, so that we can protect ourselves. After asking you to refer to that ruling, I want to raise the issue that the courts in our country – and I want hon. Members to indulge me - seem to say that whenever anybody runs to court, parliamentary business stands injuncted. The ruling is very clear. The Senate is now going through a serious predicament. They have no business because anything they try to do ... view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: ruling of this House. Unless there is a different ruling or resolution, this House must do its duty in a manner that makes it impossible for anybody to interfere with it, not even the Executive. Our Executive may be offended but we beg you as a believer in the rule of law, that whatever we do here, nobody can suspend our Standing Orders. If they want, they can guide the process when we are making law. The Executive or anybody else is allowed to canvass so that the result does not offend them but, in the absence of that canvassing, ... view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for indulging me. I agree and as I said before, for us to have arrived at that particular Standing Order which required Cabinet Secretaries to report to this House, you were actually trying to find a solution to a very difficult circumstance. There are people in the Executive who seem to be uncomfortable with the Standing Orders Hon. Speaker, Cabinet Secretaries must be held accountable. They must be accountable for their actions, they must be held to account and they must be accountable for their actions. It would be good as a House to tell the ... view