Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2501 to 2510 of 8498.

• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, good afternoon. I join you in welcoming everybody back to this Session. I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the Senate today, Tuesday, 10th September, 2019. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. M. Kajwang’. I can see where he is coming from. There is a possibility of this House having so many documents or reports that, perhaps may be tabled here and may not have been tabled in county assemblies--- view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as you retire to make this very important decision, we must be very careful of the possibility that that the Auditor-General will have the discretion to table certain reports in future. If you look at Article 229(4), you will find serious Auditor-General’s reports there, which includes the accounts of the national and county governments. As the Chairperson of the CPAIC has alluded, your Communication might have to be considered, not just as a Communication, but the Committee will have to come back with proper amendments to the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. This will ensure that reports ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: The Constitution presupposes that we will have purposive interpretation. If we allow a situation where the Auditor-General will now cherry-pick. For example, he will say that he has submitted the accounts of Elgeyo-Marakwet County to the County Assembly of Elgeyo-Marakwet and, therefore, he does not have to submit them to the Senate. We will have a problem with Article 96 of the Constitution, which says that the Senate oversights accounts of counties. It can only do so, if we have properly tabled accounts in this House. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as you consider this, holistically look at Article 96 and the provision of Article 229, without being constricted in the narrow definition of “or” and “and” in Subsection 7. We will have a situation like in Murang’a, for example, where the county government and national Government fighting over a water fund. In that situation, it might be necessary that the Senate oversight Committee intervenes. However, it cannot do so if the accounts of that fund are not brought to this House. Even if the Senate or the National Assembly may not act on the reports, it is ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: Let us not create an interpretation that will lock us to “and” and “or” of Article 129 (7) at the expense of us being able to intervene in cases where county assemblies may not successfully do anything about the funds in a county. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.2 of 2019) be now read a Second Time. This is a very important and straight forward Bill. I am not going to spend a lot of time on it. The Constitution of Kenya 2010 is a very progressive Constitution which provides for a people’s driven Constitution. It provides for various institutions that deal with governance in this country, including matters related to delimitation of boundaries. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in Senate: I am a proud supporter and believer in the Constitution of Kenya 2010. I had the privilege to be there when it was being initially drafted. When Prof. Yash Pal Gai was the Chairperson of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, I worked as a Programme Officer under the Commission at that time and travelled to places in Kenya, including somewhere in Mwakinyungu and Mwatate in Taita-Taveta and many parts of the then Coast Province to listen to the views of Kenyans which were valid. One of the reasons why Kenyans went for the current Constitution is they wanted a ... view