James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: We should never expect that all the time the Senators will vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’. I think that is also wrong. When somebody votes ‘no’, it is not a transgression. We should be able to live up with it. In the Senate, we are beginning to get happy with the idea that when we vote as a House, it is a sign of maturity. I think it is a sign of laziness and not knowing what we should be doing. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: I am very happy that on this issue, we had three people who voted against the Motion. In fact, we should a have had five or six. I am not saying that it should have failed, but I think we are getting too cosy with the way we handle things here; that when somebody votes against a Motion, it is taken against them. I heard somebody saying: “Your Bills are coming and we will kill them.” I think that was being said by part of the leadership of this House. I do not think that was right. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, let us not call it a day of shame. It is a day to remember. Knowing that we have a case in court next week, let us see what we can make out of it. This is because the last time when we had this problem, we went to the Supreme Court of Kenya and came back with flying colours. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: I thank you. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to beg the Senate Majority Leader - although he spoke to me on this matter sometime yesterday, and I think he has spoken to quite a number of Members of the House - that under Standing Order No.5 I propose that the debate on this Bill be now adjourned. I do it deliberately at this stage because the Bill is now the property of the House. If I had risen during the Mover’s The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: speech or the seconding of the Bill by Sen. Linturi I would have literally called for the killing of the Bill. They have very important recommendations that are being made on this Bill. However, I want to point out why I think we need a little discussion on this. One is the point that was mentioned by Sen. Linturi. If you listened to Sen. Linturi carefully, his arguments were actually not in support of the Bill. He was at pains because the IEBC is an independent Commission. It is one of the Chapter 15 institutions. Once it makes a decision, ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I give information, I am still pleading. For counties, numbers and size do not matter. A county can be as small as Lamu or as big as Turkana irrespective of the numbers. However, Article 89 of the Constitution gives the framework for delimitation. The IEBC does not have an open hand there. They say that you have got to look at the population, size and so on and so forth. I just wanted to give my colleague the information that comparing delimitation of counties is not the right comparison. However, now that he has said that ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I express concern over the fact that CSs are not appearing in some of the committees that they have been summoned or invited to appear. This being such a critical question, because the census is coming on August, can the Office of the Clerk make sure that there is confirmation that the CS will turn up? As Sen. Wetangula has pointed out, 10 years ago, there was a big controversy about the census. In fact, the census results in three counties were suspended and were not taken into account for purposes of planning as pronounced in the ... view