Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am a lawyer and not a finance expert. The best finance experts in the country have advised that the best way to sort this problem is to increase the debt ceiling, open an opportunity for that borrowing, restructure the debt and bring it down. We must be accountable to one another in this House. My informal position initially was that this was the opportunity to sort the problem. However, knocking down the debt ceiling and the opportunity to deal with it will not give us the opportunity to solve the problem. We will be actually postponing ... view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, so what is my way forward? This is my suggestion. One, we agree with the national Treasury to open up that debt ceiling to Kshs9 trillion. Two--- view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can see our friends saying “maybe we should or should not”. However, this is my recommendation. We should be able to open up that debt ceiling to give an opportunity to the national Treasury to restructure the debt. As a House, led by the Senate Budget and Finance Committee, we should propose an amendment to the Finance Act this way. One is to bring in an independent institution in the name of the Loans and Grants Council of Kenya. Two, that we demand the outright publication of the national debt ceiling. view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: I would like to ask Senators here, with tremendous respect, I can see what--- view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can see the consultations have gone higher! I am happy with the Senate for one thing; though we have our concerns with the Executive; most of us here have concerns about how this House has been treated, including allowing the national Government to borrow huge sums of money, give them to counties in form of loans and grants and then deny this House the resources to oversight this money. This is ridiculous. As a House, we have been pushing that the oversight resources are not for personal gain. They are to ensure that the borrowed resources ... view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must also resource the Judiciary. I saw the Chief Justice yesterday in a lot of pain complaining. I know some people have reduced his complaints to the question of the car he was talking about, the sitting, et cetera. That is far from it. Although those are things that are also important, but what is more important is that for justice to be achieved and the thieves of our money to be arrested and put behind bars after trial, we must resource the Judiciary. We must not take the Judiciary or the complaints of the Chief ... view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Judiciary has the ability to bite, hold us to account, ensure that the Constitution is being supported, and money is not being expended without the Judiciary Fund that was put in place. Let the judges and the Judiciary bite, take their stand and bring this country to order. If it is Parliament or the Executive that is misbehaving, let them bring them to order, because that is what it means to have accountability among the separate institutions under the separation of powers doctrine. view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to plead with my colleagues, with humility and utmost honour to pass these regulations so that we can save our country from the highest interest view
• 5 Nov 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view