Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first of all, I would like to congratulate Justice (Dr.) Willy Mutunga, the former Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya, for a very wonderful speech that he gave yesterday. I would also like to congratulate him for the five years he has been in leadership in the Judiciary. As human beings, all of us have our strengths and weaknesses. He did his job and completed his work. We wish him well even as he resumes other duties. I am told, as reported by the media, that he has been appointed a Commonwealth Ambassador to Maldives. ... view
• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, humility is one of the things that we will remember the Chief Justice for. He was down to earth and he could interact with every Kenyan. He was willing to respond to all of us, whether on Twitter or any other platform. Many lawyers who are practicing can bear me witness that Justice (Dr.) Mutunga responded to any letter that was written to him. He responded to all his correspondences whether in the affirmative or not. His interaction with the common view
• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, humility is one of the things that we will remember the Chief Justice for. He was down to earth and he could interact with every Kenyan. He was willing to respond to all of us, whether on Twitter or any other platform. Many lawyers who are practicing can bear me witness that Justice (Dr.) Mutunga responded to any letter that was written to him. He responded to all his correspondences whether in the affirmative or not. His interaction with the common view
• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: is commendable. The second thing is that he has tried his best to take access to justice to places that were marginalized for a long period of time. That process is ongoing. There are efforts to build courts in Elgeyo Marakwet and other places that did not have High Courts, and that process is commendable. We also want to commend him for hiring new judges and increasing the number of judges in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and magistrates and also putting a lot of efforts in the area of training that is now a culture in the ... view
• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: is commendable. The second thing is that he has tried his best to take access to justice to places that were marginalized for a long period of time. That process is ongoing. There are efforts to build courts in Elgeyo Marakwet and other places that did not have High Courts, and that process is commendable. We also want to commend him for hiring new judges and increasing the number of judges in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and magistrates and also putting a lot of efforts in the area of training that is now a culture in the ... view
• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, can you protect me from the Senators who are heckling? view
• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, can you protect me from the Senators who are heckling? view
• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will talk about the decisions of the Judiciary starting with the presidential petition to the decision about the jurisdiction of this House on Division and Allocation of Revenue Bills. We praise the Judiciary because they have remained consistent in making decisions. However, there are decisions we never agreed with. For example, how Gov. Wambora’s issue was handled. There are places of law of correcting those issues, either in appeal or application. We may never have agreed with the decision of the Supreme Court on the presidency, but it is the same Court that gave the ... view
• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will talk about the decisions of the Judiciary starting with the presidential petition to the decision about the jurisdiction of this House on Division and Allocation of Revenue Bills. We praise the Judiciary because they have remained consistent in making decisions. However, there are decisions we never agreed with. For example, how Gov. Wambora’s issue was handled. There are places of law of correcting those issues, either in appeal or application. We may never have agreed with the decision of the Supreme Court on the presidency, but it is the same Court that gave the ... view
• 16 Jun 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to support this Motion and thank my colleague Sen. (Dr.) Zani for moving it on behalf of those of us who sit together. We will be out there to continue to do our work in the committees. We are not having a break for the sake of it. We have a lot of pending matters in our committees which we should deal with. We also want to ensure that we can use this The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can ... view