Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 May 2021 in Senate: I am convinced that this Committee spent a lot of time to do a very thorough job. Public outcry of the newspaper reports, my friends who come from Wajir and the people I interact with said a lot of things about the county government and the governor. There were 15 charges on the gross violation of the Constitution and three charges on abuse of office. I would have assumed the Report would have come with an overwhelming verdict that says the Governor has committed so many violations. I am surprised the Report finds the Governor not culpable for many things ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: What did the Committee do? It found in one of the charges, which was gross violation of Article 227 of the Constitution on the rights to health. A submission was made to the Committee that a right to health was violated in Wajir. view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: Our current Constitution is one of the most progressive constitutions not just in Africa, but the world. It is one of the few constitutions in Africa and the world that recognizes what we used to call second generation of rights. Those are the socio- economic rights, which include the right to health. From this very progressive Constitution that guarantees the right to clean water, social security, right to education, view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: accessible and adequate housing, these provisions expect national and county governments to perform a positive act in achieving these rights. view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: The Committee was right to interrogate the County Government of Wajir activities and acts in achieving socio-economic rights, particularly the right to health. I say so because this is a very important subject because it discuss the progressive nature of our Constitution. We are doing so when we have a national debate about changing the Constitution, particularly after the very sound, detailed and amazing judgement that was given by a bench of the High Court led by Prof. Joel Ngugi. He is a Professor of law and graduate of Harvard University. He was also a Professor of law at the ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: When such judgments are made, we should, as a country, celebrate because they remind as of the importance of this Constitution. When such processes of impeachments are brought before us, we must take time to look at them, as a Senate, and ask ourselves, “What was expected of hon. Gov. Mohamud in achieving Article 43 of the Constitution? What is the evidence that was given to us?” The evidence given to us is contained in page 94 to 98 of the Report. In the Report the County Assembly said one thing and the county executive defended itself. The conclusion was ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: relation to a renal machine that was bought using a programme that we have discussed in this House which is the Managed Equipment Services (MES) for national Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a grant must be given by the national Government to run those machines. When the Report on MES was brought to this Chamber, we all remember the ‘mess’ itself in the MES report in relation to how money is given to national Government, management structure, and the procurement process of those machines. view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: We are now saying, for purpose of the working structure of the MES, we should impeach a governor yet the person responsible is the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of the Ministry of Health at the national level. There are certain things that do not add up in this report in relation to this particular charge. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it must be known to the people of Wajir County and Kenya that as a Senate here, we have only one charge that has been brought to this House. There is only one charge that has been substantiated and that charge is in ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: recognized in law. Let us not be too overreaching. The office of first ladies in all county governments has been a position of generally about doing public good. This is because a wife of a governor has resigned their job to work with the governor. She wants to do something about women empowerment and public health. Let us not forget that there is no office of the first lady of the Republic of Kenya. However, Her Excellency Margret Kenyatta has used her position as the first lady of this Republic to do a fantastic job when it comes to fighting ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I do not know why Sen. Cheruiyot is excited with my contribution. This is a very important exercise. As a Senate, we have done this over and over again; at least for those of us who are in the second term. We did many impeachment exercises in the 11th Parliament. The 12th Parliament is historic because it has successfully impeached at least two governors. Impeachment is a process of accountability as per the Constitution. Accountability does not mean that the Governor himself should be directly culpable. It includes vicarious liability which is by virtue of ... view