9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
Hon. Senators, that brings us to the end of the business on the Order Paper. Therefore, the Senate stands adjourned until this afternoon at 2.30 p.m. The Senate rose at 10.55 a.m. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate.
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9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Could Sen. Mbura substantiate her serious allegation that in Mombasa drugs and illegal guns are ferried via ambulances? This is a very serious issue.
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9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Thank you for that direction. I think that we really need to be careful, because some of the statements that we make here are being consumed sometimes wholeheartedly by the people who elected us. But my point of order is further to that. The danger that I see is that you even destroy the reputation of service providers in the ambulance industry. Finally, I do not think that television footage can be the basis of making that allegation. The Senator is out of order, especially by saying that ...
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9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the point of order is: Can television footage be the basis of making serious allegation?
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9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker.
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9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
I have been to Makadara and 37 roads to the city centre would have made traffic jam a thing of the past. Could the Senator for Nairobi substantiate where those roads are, unless they are in his own imagination?
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9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. How does a traffic jam make a country collapse? Is the Senator in order to insinuate that when there is a traffic jam in Nairobi, this beautiful country collapses?
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9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is a House of records. Is Sen. Elachi in order to suggest that when the tender for the railway line is given, part of it will be eaten through corruption? If she is in order? Could she substantiate her source of information?
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9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Madam Temporary Speaker, similarly, I rise to support this Motion and congratulate the Senator for Kirinyaga County who has kept this Senate alive today. We spent the whole morning debating a Motion which he brought, although it was a sophisticated debate. Some of the Members who are digitally challenged had to walk out and go to the lounge, because they could not even understand what cable cars are.
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9 Oct 2013 in Senate:
(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for that request for clarification. What I meant was that all of us are not at par technologically. That is a fact. As to whether all those who walked out, did so for that purpose, I did not say so. I just said that, perhaps, that is why some of them walked out. I know one or two, but I will protect their identity for the sake of---
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