Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: First of all, I need your attention because that is the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee and I also need his attention, because I respect his legal mind. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am glad that you have clarified that we are not here to score points or compete against each other, but to inform the House where we are going. I also must confess that I have tremendous respect for you, having been my lecturer, senior and the Senate Majority Leader here. I remember in a similar situation you said on the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: Floor of this House that the Senate is not a liquor licensing board to be injuncted. Those were your words. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: I wish I could have the attention of the Senior Counsel. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also gave my 100 per cent attention to the Senate Minority Leader, but in this very situation, it is in his capacity as a Senior Counsel. I have said that I respect you and so, I hope the next comment will not mean that I am taking anything from you. I totally associate myself with Sen. M. Kajwang’, who like Paul, got his Damascus moment. As we said, everyone has an opportunity to change their mind. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. was making this point that I am about to make, but veered off somewhere on ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: What we are discussing here is a matter that is time bound. If you read Standing Order No.75, Article 181 of the Constitution, and Section 33 of the County Governments Act, all these provisions relate to removal of a governor and there is time bound. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: Sen. Orengo said here that Parliament must not be in a hurry and it should ensure that it is in harmony with the other institutions. We have the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC) and others. However, let us not beat about the bush. We have to make a decision on the Floor of this House in two ways. It either that Parliament has been injuncted or Parliament has not been injuncted. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: I know we are struggling to produce a jurisprudence of in-between which is self- injunction and very dangerous, if I may say so. This is because if that rule is applied to the Committee Chaired by Sen. Ndwiga, then there is nothing that stops the Speaker tomorrow, on an influence of another person from the streets, from stopping the Committee investigating medical equipment. Nothing will stop the Speaker from injuncting indefinitely the Committee that is investigating the issue of debts. We will have introduced, through a Standing Order that is non-existent, a jurisprudence that will put this House in a ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: the goodness of the House and institutional relationship with the Executive--- If this applies to the Judiciary, there is nothing that stops institutional relationship with the Executive. Somebody here could say that for good institutional relationship with the Executive, we should stay our proceedings for 30 days to be reviewed backwards or forwards. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not saying this because I disrespect you. I fear that this precedent will affect the Committee that Sen. M. Kajwang’ chairs and other committees that could be formed. It will also affect proceedings of this House against the Executive. Therefore, that ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, we respect the institution of the Speaker with a lot of fear. I appreciate your magnanimity in terms of agreeing that this debate should be as free as possible. However, my concern is the point of the question of a decision. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. argued the case of Hon. Abu Chiaba. We were with him in my earlier law career, but I was too junior. The argument we made that time was that Kibaki versus Moi’s case was made per incurium . We were looking for a way to run away from Kibaki versus Moi. We ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: Yes, he left the Chamber to attend to other matters in the middle of a serious debate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you make a decision finally, you should also consider that all of us were here. Sen. Orengo’s submission was that Parliament can be injuncted. He went straight to the argument that you can injunct Parliament. This House must make that decision. If you agree with Sen. Orengo’s submission that we are part of the new constitutional order and constitutional democracy where Parliament can be injuncted, then make that ruling in black and white, so that we know that ... view