James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1051 to 1060 of 4273.

• 26 Feb 2020 in Senate: I second the Motion. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, locusts or no locusts, there is a constitutional duty on CSs to appear before Parliament or its Committees. It is about time we demonstrated whether the Constitution is supreme or CSs are supreme to the Constitution. Senators and Members of the National Assembly are the elected representative of the people of Kenya who are sovereign. So, when a CS defies a requirement of the House to appear, that is a gross constitutional violation. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: In fact, if there was any reason upon which a CS can be sanctioned, the most serious sanctions would emanate from a violation of the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. This provision in the Constitution does not give the CS any discretion or alternative. It says that a CS shall attend when required, not just by the Senate but also its Committees, and not when he or she wishes. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: I have not seen any provision under the Constitution where the CS can elect to tell the Senate that he or she is going for another meeting. There cannot be a more important meeting than a meeting of the Senate or its Committees requiring the CS to attend. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: This issue of locust is an emergency. It means that if Kenya is at war and we require a CS to come and appear, because we have powers of sanctioning whether we can go to war or not, our CS can elect to come or not. So, this is an exceptional case because the locusts are not waiting. They are already in Muhoroni and when they come to hit Siaya County, they will pass through Vihiga County. I know their flight path. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, without fear or favour, that CS must be summoned to appear before the Committee tomorrow. If it goes beyond that, it means that we are also trying to maneuver to accommodate him in circumstances where there is an emergency. So, I call upon you to direct that the CS appears. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: The other day when impeachment proceedings were going on in the Senate, the Serjeant-at-Arms was saying, ‘oye! oye! the Senate is called into the sitting,’ and all Members are required to be quiet under sanction of imprisonment. So, if the CS does not come, then consequences must follow. One of the things that they have learnt is that the Senate will not do anything whatever the violation, however serious it is. So, let this one not go because that Cabinet Secretary must appear before the Committee, so that the people of Kenya can hear from the floor of the Committee ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of extrajudicial killings is not new to this House. I think the Senator for Mombasa County, my learned friend, Sen. Faki, has time and again brought matters before the Senate on extrajudicial killings. I am happy that the Senator for Nairobi City County has again come with this issue although affecting more particularly Nairobi City County. If you look at the records of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) based in Geneva, Kenya does not feature very well in that organisation. In fact, at one time, we went as a Kenya Government delegation to ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: discussing a report on Kenya on extrajudicial killings. We were there with the then Minister for Interior and Coordination of National Government, the late Prof. Saitoti and the late Mutula Kilonzo as the Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Council at that international level had very accurate reports of extrajudicial killings in Kenya. The majority of the cases were in the Coast, Nairobi City and North Eastern. There is nothing as bad as appearing before an international organisation, a UN organisation and evidence is laid before you showing who was killed where. There was also the ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Committee, should do thorough work on this. For the first time, they should try to get the Government of Kenya to react to this in a substantial way. The Chairman of the Committee is probably busy with another assignment, but I think that we need a very exhaustive report. In fact, that assignment will not take us very far if people are dying anyhow. If you cannot protect lives, then who are you building bridges for? This matter should not be taken lightly. I honour and respect Sen. Faki for the constant reminder that it is ... view