James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I fully concur with the statements made by the Senate Majority Leader. However, I just want to add a few matters which the Council of Governors (CoG) uttered when they made a statement last week. I was told that they were, probably, going to issue another statement today. view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, in making their statement last week, they made a very atrocious statement. One of the things they said is that they are going to shut down and disband the Senate; that they are going to file a petition in the court to dissolve the Senate. I would ask the CoG to read the advisory judgement which arose out of a matter they had filed themselves in the Supreme Court. I want to say from the Floor of this House, there is no provision under the Constitution that you can use to dissolve the Senate. There is none ... view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: resolution - I think Sen. Omogeni, Senior Counsel and Sen. Faki pointed this very clearly - Article 217(7) says that a resolution under this Article that is approved under Clause (b) shall be binding until a subsequent resolution has been approved. view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, as far as I am concerned, there is no constitutional crisis. There is no impasse. The Cabinet Secretary to the Treasury has the legal instruments both on account of this constitutional provisions and those provisions that have been cited by the Senate Majority Leader. view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: The second thing which the governors uttered which was completely uncalled for and atrocious. I heard a statement where they were saying that the Senators are extortionists. view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: They said so, and I heard that at the Senate, we are extortionists. view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, if you take any newspaper on a daily basis on matters relating to the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, you are more likely to find a governor on the first pages of the newspaper than you will find a Senator. Even in today’s newspaper, I do not see a picture of a Senator here. It is all governors. This has not occurred because it has just happened. It is because somebody has gone and made a complaint. view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: I would advise the governors to go to Integrity House and make a report that on such and such a day, there was a Senator who asked me for a bribe or I witnessed an event of extortion. view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, these kinds of wild statements, these kinds of sensational statements are shameless and uncalled for. In fact, I would have thought the CoG would sit together and say we are an endangered species, what do we do in order to survive? This is because at this rate they are likely not to survive. Just on the newspaper alone, there are eight of them and I do not see a single Senator. Whenever you see a Senator on the first page, it is on something else which is political. This is a statement that should not have come ... view
• 8 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, now they want the money. They want, not only this money that they are being given by Parliament, but they also want the Covid-19 money. They want the money, but they do not want oversight. They do not want to account. What type of people are these? view