John Olago Aluoch

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I am glad that the Leader of the Majority Party has brought up this matter because it is a very serious matter. Indeed, in my view, for the last six months culminating in the orders of the court yesterday, the Judiciary is courting anarchy and very serious constitutional crisis in Kenya. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: First of all, lest any of us in this House stands to think that what we are discussing goes against the rule of sub judice, we should understand that this is not so. This is a path that Parliament has trodden before. On 27th November, 2008, in the Tenth Parliament, when Parliament was debating a Bill to disband the then Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) chaired by the late Samuel Kivuitu, Mr. Kivuitu and 22 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: other Commissioners went to the High Court in Nairobi seeking orders to stop Parliament from debating any Bill that purported to remove them. They filed in the High Court Nairobi, Judicial Review Petition No.689 of 2008, Samuel Mutua Kivuitu and 22 others versus the Attorney-General. When the court issued an order stopping Parliament from debating that Bill, I raised the issue in the Tenth Parliament and your then predecessor, hon. Marende, took views of the Members of Parliament extensively and finally, he made a ruling. That ruling is as alive then as it is now. This is because, then the ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: This is not different from what was tabled before the Senate. Your predecessor made this ruling and referred to the Powers and Privileges Act, Section 12 that:- “No proceedings or decisions of the Assembly or the Committee of privileges acting in accordance with this Act shall be questioned in any court”. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: That law is as valid now as it was then. No action by Parliament can be questioned in any court. Our Constitution, Chapter Eight creates the Legislature and Article 94(1) and (2) are very clear in their provisions. The legislative authority of the republic is derived from the people and at the national level, it is vested in and exercised by Parliament. That is a role that cannot be taken away from Parliament. That is a role that is not replicated in the statute and in the Constitution that creates the Judiciary. This is special to Parliament and no other. ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: If the Judiciary does not wish to bring this country to a state of anarchy, then judges must be cautious when they exercise their authority because the moment they enter into the arena of legislation, then they are courting that anarchy. I urge you, hon. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Speaker, in your wisdom, to issue a ruling that will resound not just in this House, but will go to the extent of reaching the Judiciary, so that we can have a state of lawfulness. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I agree and I ask for your direction the way the Leader of the Majority is asking. view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order No. 44(2)(c), I wish to request for a Statement from the Chairperson of Transport, Public Works and Housing Committee regarding the Government’s policy of upgrading at least 20 kilometers of roads to meet the standards in each constituency. This policy was communicated in the last Parliament and the roads were to be identified by the respective Constituencies Roads Committees. Regional Managers of Kenya Rural Roads Authority had followed up the details of the roads by November 2013, but as I speak now before this House nothing has been done on the ground. ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I only hope that funding for this project is factored in the Supplementary Budget coming before the House. I can take three weeks but I hope that before the end of the three weeks, work will have started all over the Republic. view