14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
For example, they have brought amendment to provide for two members of staff from the Senate offices to sit in the Constituency Roads Development Committee. What business does the Senate office have in a Constituency Development Committee? Constituencies are in the National Assembly and Senators sit in the Senate.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
So, what business do the two people they want nominated have to do with the constituency? It just shows that you lack an understanding of the Constitution. It just shows that these people want to come and get things which do not belong to them. They can form County Road Development Committees and get their funding from the county governments, if they wish. It can happen just the way the national Government funds the Constituencies Road Development Fund. They went further to say trunk roads belong to the national Government but the road reserve belongs to the county governments. How ...
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
These are amendments that this House must reject. We must have serious people in that mediation team so that the Senators can be told that they have crossed the boundary. So, the issues that have been raised by the Chair of the Transport, Public Works and Housing Committee are all valid. They are now saying that before the Cabinet Secretary for Transport brings regulations to this House, he must consult the governors and the county government.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Statutory Instruments Act is very clear. It has given the mandate to do regulations to the CS. He is to bring them to this House so that the Committee on Delegated Legislation can look at them and bring them to this House for approval. So, where is that mind from when there is a law in place on how regulations must be done? I do not know what the Legal Department of the Senate is doing, if they can allow Senators to discuss these kinds of amendments.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not want to belabour the matter, but I urge this House to reject these amendments. They must go to a mediation committee and we must get The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
them back when they are in conformity with the Constitution and relevant statutes. If any Bill or a proposed amendment to a Bill contravenes the Constitution, Members of this House ask the Hon. Speaker to make a ruling, like what he did today. What we expect him to do on the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) and the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) issues... In the case of the Senate, it looks like nobody is concerned whether these amendments are in conformity with the Constitution or not. They were just passed in the Senate and forwarded to the National Assembly for ...
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you so much.
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13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.
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13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I stand guided by your Communication. However, I want to seek clarification in the sense that I have both reports with me here. I was wondering how they both found their way on the table of the Speaker. As you are aware, when a committee does its report in draft form, the final report is the one that goes to the Director of Committees and then to Speaker for approval. Therefore, this is a matter that I would like to seek further clarification in the sense that both reports were sent to the Speaker’s Office for approval and ...
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7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, how did this matter find itself in Parliament? This matter came through an audit query. A Report that was presented by the Auditor-General - and I am a Member of PAC. The Committee exercised their mandate and came up with a Report. So, we have to confine ourselves to the constitutional issues raised by the Leader of the Majority Party, because we will have a chance to debate the whole Report.
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