James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1771 to 1780 of 4273.

• 13 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to second. view
• 13 Feb 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Chairperson. Since we will vote at the end, it is not proper for the Chairman to just stand and propose that the Bill be amended as indicated in the Order Paper. I think some little explanation about the amendments is needed. Some of them are to bring them in line with the Act as it is today; for example, the use of the words “land use planning” as opposed to the use of the phrase “physical planning”. However, just to read through as a machine and you do not explain, would not be ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: I wish to support your Communication, and I go on record in appreciating what you have said about the businesses that we had in the House during the last session and what awaits us. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was reading in the media and normally the media is not all the time very positive about the Senate, but at least they acknowledged that the Senate generated the highest number of Bills of the two Houses. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: I also saw a commentary that denoted that the Bills were not just high in number but also the quality of the Bills found favor with the people in the media. I think we deserve a pat on the back for that recognition. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Secondly, I think we should also not take it for granted that during this initiative, “the Building of Bridges Initiative” that a senior member of this House is the Chair and I think that is not an accident. Maybe you might be getting more tit bits than any other person because the Chair of that Initiative is here together with the Attorney-General view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: , Sen. Amos Wako. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Having said that, I want to say something which is very critical because of the on- going exercise to clean up in the Government. One of the most important roles that we have that the Leader of the Majority has talked about is oversight. The governors and counties must realize that we, as the Senate, do not want to become morticians; we do not want to be surgeons. We better be talking about that money when it is still there than when it is already stolen. The governors and everybody must begin to realize that when they are called here, ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Finally, Kenya is now in a very important position because no country which has gone through a constitutional process misses an opportunity to review that Constitution. Be it India, which, two years after the making of their Constitution, they had to review that Constitution to look at the flaws and lacuna in the constitutional framework. In the United Stated of America (USA), we normally talk about how great that Constitution is but very few years after the convention, there was a review, and there has been constant review. That is why there have been so many amendments. So, we should ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: I join the Majority Leader in saying that at least, we foresaw this in advance and the draft that we had was not only to enhance the authority of the Senate but to protect devolution and make governance more effective even in the area of appointing public officers. view