James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Mar 2021 in Senate: I dare him to say because what follows, for good order, can be taken at the appropriate forum. view
• 23 Mar 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want the Clerk to hear this because he might guide us. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 23 Mar 2021 in Senate: The debate on the Former President of Tanzania John Pombe Magufuli is not something that we want to do without sufficient decorum and have a proper debate for those who wanted to contribute on this matter. They are quite a number. We have been waiting here. We only have 30 minutes for somebody to move and second. We took the device of a Motion so that at the end of the debate, the record and the HANSARD will be handed over to the Tanzanian High Commission. Although we have one day for two sittings, I propose that we defer the ... view
• 3 Mar 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I like what Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. said. However, I wanted to give further information. Parliament is not just a rolling machine. When the matter comes here, we can reject or pass it. In making that decision, we need to know the views of the public. Just like the county assemblies, when they passed the Bill, the public gave them views on whether to reject or pass it. Therefore, Parliament also needs to get the information and know whether the public wants us to reject it or pass it. view
• 3 Mar 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want to go back to where I was. Remember we have had a matter in the Court of Appeal, which is pending and in the High Court on a very simple matter of Article 110(3), on what is concurrence. We wanted to know whether it is mandatory or whether it is an essential step. After we were heard, the judges took about three months to discuss that matter and consider it fully. I think that being the body that is vested with powers under Article 257 once the county assemblies approve the Bill, I will ... view
• 3 Mar 2021 in Senate: This may be a matter which is already answered by the discussions which went around the Committee of Experts. Normally in interpreting the Constitution and the Supreme Court has said that interpretation must be contextual which means we look at the history and the debate that took place. It cannot be done in a vacuum. Mr. Speaker, Sir, because we have a very competent legal team in both Houses and a legal directorate, what you have set out is correct. However, some of these issues, they need to think about it more carefully and give us an answer or some ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have read keenly the coalition agreement between the Wiper Democratic Movement Party and Jubilee Party, which is registered with the Registrar of Political Parties. I have not seen a provision in it where they undertook to help Jubilee Party run the Government or participate in Government activities, sit in Cabinet or insist that they should be allocated the Office of the Deputy President or any other position. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, where a house is falling from within, there is very little you can do about it, especially when the membership of that family is ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: I am giving very serious information to my learned friend. When Sen. Sakaja was speaking here, he talked about everything wrong with the BPS and with what is going wrong. That is the way it should be. However, he was not suggesting that there should be insurrection of bringing down the Jubilee Government. That is quite different from somebody who is eating from inside the Jubilee Government. My information is that the nearest Chair to that of the President today in the Cabinet meeting was occupied by a member of United Democratic Party (UDP). view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: When the leader of the Wiper Democratic Party tried to go to State House, he was told that he could not go in because there was a Cabinet meeting. I was hoping that the leader of the ―wheelbarrow‖ party would walk out and say: ―You know, things are going on and I can no longer sit here.‖ Sen. Cheruiyot, the other day I saw you sitting behind that convoy of ten motorcycles and no wheelbarrow following. Then, you are talking about the Government not delivering. Part of the problem with the Jubilee Government is waste. Just look at the waste ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the adoption of the Motion and commend the Committee led by the very able Chairman, the distinguished Senator for Kirinyaga. I listened to him keenly when he was moving the Motion. view