Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that might be one way of preserving language. Our county assemblies are localized, so they should be allowed to debate in their mother-tongue as long as it is understood by everybody in the House and where it is not understood, there are proper translation services for people to follow the debate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the point I am trying to make is that, let us make the petitions as simple as possible. (c) be written in respective, decorous and template language; I do not know when language becomes respectful or disrespectful but it should be ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: This is important because a petitioner from Tot can wait for their MCA of Endo Ward to take a petition to the assembly. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: In fact, one of the things that I talked about and it is something that counties must think about is establishment of county radios. I wish that the licencing procedures would be relaxed for purposes of establishing county radios, which will help the citizens of every county to follow what is happening in their assemblies. I am not even worried about what the executive does. The debates of the county assemblies are quality debates. If I know that Elgeyo- Marakwet is going to debate on something today and they have Elgeyo-Marakwet radio, I will listen to the debate. They can ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: If we are to push the citizens to elect MCAs who can draft, move Bills and Motions, then there must be a mechanism of putting pressure on those elected leaders to perform well which can be done by making their debates public. When we first came here, we struggled. We were good debaters out there but when we came here and hade to stand in this very important podium for the first time to debate on a Bill, one can shake, sweat, but over time, you get to improve. You have to prepare when you know that what you are ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: It is possible, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. You see how difficult it is for a Member of this House to Table a report for the first time but when they do it the next day and the next day, they get used to it. It is the expectation that is out there that makes people to work hard and perform better. Sen. Cheruiyot, who is also a Commissioner, sits in the Committee on Information, Communication and Technology and Vice Chairperson is here. They need to explore ways, in that Committee, of making it mandatory for county assemblies to broadcast their ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: the House. That is important because it makes petitions an exclusive purview of members of the public. However, a senator and a governor can present a petition to the county assembly because they are not MCAs. There is nothing that blocks the President from making a petition to a county assembly that, ‘I want you to consider this and that’. For a very long time, we have made people in this country who hold positions look like they must appear to be a rare breed, scarce commodity and look mysterious for them to look powerful. Leadership is not about looking ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will remember that when we joined Parliament, everyone was fighting to be the “big man”. There was a big man syndrome in the country. Nobody wanted to be the last one to speak because everyone wanted to be the first one to speak in a function. I remember we went with you to Baringo and at that time you were the Senate Majority Leader. Many Members of the National Assembly were saying that Senate is a small and useless House with a small group whose work is to burry dogs and the only legislation that ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: For sure, I know that it is not for the Senate but for county assemblies. Somebody could be having something but maybe they have no other process of making the information formal to the county assembly but through the Senate and addressed to the county assembly. They can still do a petition to the county assembly to inform MCAs about it insofar as, for example, building a youth polytechnic in a particular area is concerned and they want them to consider. That is humility of service and we are on record about that. We are even setting an example to ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: they are strong, important, useful and they have a constitutional job to do. They are the ones who budget for counties and oversight them. We tell them that development of the counties is dependent on them but they do not listen. One way of making them understand that they are such an important entity is to get a petition from their Senator. That is when they will know they have a role to play and the Senator has certain expectations from them. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: It was expected that MCAs should be an avenue to be used by retired public servants like professors. We need to create a culture that where a retired professor in Chwele or Kapsokwony in Bungoma County with great knowledge should prepare a petition and send to the county assembly in Bungoma. When they come to sit in the Gallery here, we will recognise them as having petitioned the county assembly and being invited to appear before a committee. view