James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: got protected constituencies, which if you use a scientific process and the parameters set out in the Constitution, you find a county may lose two constituencies and they are quite a number in Central, Western, Nyanza, Makueni, Lamu and all over. If you use those parameters strictly, Lamu would end up being a one constituency county. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is the question on North Horr, which is so huge. It is twice bigger than Nyanza and it is one constituency, yet every time we have a review, they do not get it. They are protected constituencies. Why North Horr ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is one provision in this Bill, which describes the character of the society that we want to create. It will be a new fundamental provision in the Constitution. Former President Nyerere described Kenya as a man eat man society. Actually, we have not changed character. We are truly a man-eat-man society. Kenya is the only place you can walk near or past a Government organisation and walk out with a Kshs3 billion tender, but you cannot walk past a pub and you are called in for a drink. Really, we have not changed the definition of ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: one that if we commit to, and I cannot read the other enabling provisions in this Clause because it will take long, but if this can become a face of the country we call Kenya, which is fairer than we have had it, then we would have made big strides. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is another clause about regional integration and cohesion, which is contemplating a confederation. If you want to create a confederation in the region or have a federation, then we will be having underpinning provisions in the Constitution that makes it possible. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: The other big achievement through this BBI document was that the Bill of Rights was never touched. As a practitioner of law---. Today we had that experience of one of our own being arrested in a manner that does not reflect the type of society we want to be. Even if you are arrested, this must be done in dignity because it is the Constitution, which sets out, that human dignity must be protected. S So, we have all these clauses about the Bill of Rights which are there when we want to speak well of ourselves, but when we ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Clause 18 deals with the responsibilities of a citizen. I think they are well placed, but they should never be used to create additional burdens on the people of Kenya because these are just broad responsibilities, they are not a legal obligation or set out in terms of an obligation. This is so that if a taxman requires you to make your tax returns, he should not rely on that Article dealing with responsibilities of citizenship. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Now that we are bringing the Executive back to the House, and more particularly the National Assembly, this is good for our type of democracy. We have seen how difficult it is to have this kind of separation of powers that we had. The Executive feels that they are distinct from Parliament and when they are summoned, they hesitate to come before Parliament. However, I know that the Majority Leader, Sen. Wetangula, myself and others who have grown in that system, know that when Ministers are in the House, they tend to be more reflective about how they relate not ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: I hope that when they begin to have Ministers who are ex officio Members of Parliament, that will not bring a big number of non-elected Members because part of being a Minister in a National Assembly is that you are not only accountable to the Head of State and the head of Government, but also accountability to the people who elected you. If you have a person who is not elected and is a member of the Cabinet like we have now, they just become part of the bureaucracy. They cannot speak for you or for anyone. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, all this depends on how we manage our affairs. This is about institutions. Institutions work when people respect what is required of them. When we, as The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: leaders, only want to be told what we want to hear or know, and not what we do not want to hear or need to know, sometimes that is the beginning of autocracy. As a Parliament and a people, this is how we get it wrong sometimes. Slowly, you can have dictatorship stepping in because advisors and officials who are only keen on telling the leader what they want to hear or know surround somebody. However, the responsibility is first to tell the people the truth, and whoever is in authority to be told the truth. If that does not ... view