Kiraitu Murungi

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• 3 Jun 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to highly commend our secretariat and the legal team, who did an excellent job using the law and evidence. I would like to appeal to you to give special recognition and reward to this team, because of the excellent job that they did. view
• 3 Jun 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of the Members are commending us while others are accusing us of letting the Governor of Kericho go off the hook. Other Members are saying that they will save the Governor. I would like to confirm to you that we have not let the Governor of Kericho off the hook or saved him. Indeed, it is the Constitution and the law of Kenya which has saved the Governor or let him off the hook, and not us. view
• 3 Jun 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very clear that this Committee was not motivated by any ill-will or benevolence. We just strictly did our job. I would like the House to note the language in Article 181 (a) of the Constitution. This is because the Article just says that a Governor may be removed from office of gross violation of the Constitution or any other law. So, the language is “may” and not “shall”. So, it is not mandatory. Even if the Governor is found to have grossly violated the Constitution, the Senate still has discretion, because of the language ... view
• 3 Jun 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like the Governors to know the nature of the impeachment process. Impeachment is a unique political process in which a political leader is tried by other political leaders for political crimes and the punishment that is meted is also a political punishment. Impeachment is supposed to punish bad Governors. The punishment that we get for bad Governors is removal from office, so that they do not continue committing harm to society from that office. view
• 3 Jun 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there has been a lot of debate regarding the threshold or standard of proof for impeachment. Those who are prosecuting and, indeed, the county assemblies, are prosecutors in an impeachment process. They go for a very low standard of proof. They will take something like the balance of probabilities which we see in civil cases. The Governors would want a very high standard of proof, some like what we see in the criminal cases; proof beyond reasonable doubt. But in this process, neither of those standards is applicable. view
• 3 Jun 2014 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 15 May 2014 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. From the outset, I rise to support this Bill. This is a Bill to provide for equitable sharing of revenue between the national and county levels of government. We might not be accountants or understand the finesse in accounts, but one thing is very clear, even for those who do not understand all those things, we know there is an increase in the allocation to the counties from Kshs190 billion to Kshs226.66 billion. That is more than the 15 per cent of the last audited accounts approved by the National Assembly. I know, being ... view
• 15 May 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you should not have allowed the Senate Minority Leader to leave the House because we have very important contributions to make, especially in view of some of the opinions that he expressed, which we thought were misguided, that need some correction and which he needs to hear. view
• 15 May 2014 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We believe he is going to read what we say in the HANSARD. I was sitting in the Opposition benches in the National Assembly for ten years with my friend Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o, my old friend; Sen. James Orengo, and others. It is very easy to do opposition politics because you criticize. But we all stand a chance to serve in Government for another ten years. So, we are able to see the complete picture. Opposition politics in this country is usually characterized by very flowery rhetoric. It is politics based on criticizing, condemning ... view
• 15 May 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a principle in law that says Res view