James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: If the National Assembly would come up with a version that backdates this Bill, even the matter we have in court that is coming next week will be dead on arrival. The Division of Revenue Allocation Bill is very important; that the Government cannot appropriate before there has been a Division of Revenue between the two levels of Government; the counties and the national Government. They cannot appropriate or budget until a decision is made on how to divide revenue between the national and county governments. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: If we lose the war in terms of this very important legislation by saying that in future things will still happen the same way, then we can as well say goodbye to devolution. The most important outcome of the Constitution that we had in 2010 was devolution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Americans like to pride themselves that when they enacted their Constitution in 1787, what they got, and what Benjamin Franklin talked about was the fact that they had a republic. In Kenya, we can be proud that the outcome of the promulgation of the Constitution in 2010 was devolution. ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Mediation Committee but add that we must be on the watch out in the future. This is going to happen next year, because there is an intention to amend the Public Finance Management Act (PFM). The National Assembly has already put forward an amendment that will make it, in fact, superfluous, even to come with the Division of Revenue Bill. They are going to enable the Executive to spend money that is meant to go the counties before there is that allocation or division of revenue between the two levels of government. ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: Executive very carefully. From where I come from, I can tell you that anything happening to any Kenyan belonging to any party – he may be in a party that I disagree with – but if things are done wrongly, I will never support it. I would never support a situation where, instead of the country moving forward on a democratic path, we seem to be going backwards. This Bill is a demonstration of what is happening in the political sphere. I am telling the Executive that there are things they are doing at the moment which will make Kenya ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: The distinguished Senator for Bungoma County, who is my learned friend, is talking about a preposition of an event that he has never witnessed. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: Elephants are more dangerous to the grass when they are doing the former, and not the latter. I will not tell you why; that is homework for you. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I had already spoken on the main Motion. However, as a matter of general comment, I want to add that we should think about the great story of King Solomon in the Bible, who is very well known for his wisdom. When two women were fighting over a child, there was provisional award he gave to the woman who would rather have the child die. However, when he eventually realized that the real mother would rather have the child live than be killed, King Solomon, in his final decree, gave the child to the real mother. Between ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: When you look at the record of debate, it is not so much about those who have won in votes, but what was said during the debate. There used to be a Member of Parliament called Serene, who was a very dull speaker. Whenever he would speak in the National Assembly even the Gallery would be empty. However, when you read the headlines the following day, it was only about him. Most of the time he was in the minority, but he was saying a lot of things of substance and quoting Shakespeare. He was a lawyer of no mean ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, ten years after we have made certain decisions, people will go to the HANSARD and try to find out what the Senator for Migori, for example, said on the issue. I have seen the trend and we tend to think that because we want to vote, we must limit debate. I do not know where this issue of giving people two or five minutes is coming from. As a young parliamentarian I was used to--- One time I tried to beat the late hon. Shikuku’s record. He could speak from one Tuesday to the next; seven days. ... view