Kiraitu Murungi

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• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion. THAT, pursuant to Standing Order No.247, the Report of the Rules and Business Committee of the Review of the Standing Orders laid on Wednesday, 26th February, 2014, be approved. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a Report of the sub-committee of the Rules and Business Committee (RBC) which was formed on 23rd April, 2013 to review the Standing Orders of this House. The Members of the sub-committee are listed on page 2 of the Report and I do not intend to read those names. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Report has extensively ... view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is also the reason we should take the procedures and traditions of the House seriously. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the oversight mandate of the Senate is very broad. This is because we have to be involved in oversighting the county planning processes. We have to undertake the oversight of the budgeting processes, from the beginning to the end. We have to oversight expenditure and project implementation in the counties. By oversighting the county governments, we are also talking about oversighting all these processes; both the county executive and county assemblies. So, we are not just ... view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: I want to thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, and all the Members of this House who have overwhelmingly supported this Motion. They have fully supported it as well as the amendments; they have even given more arguments to reinforce our own arguments regarding the amendments that we proposed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to especially thank the ‘bullfighter,’ Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, for bringing a very important amendment which reinforces the role of the Senator as the representative and the symbol of the county. view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senator is the most appropriate person to convey these messages from the Governors; and because that is our duty, we are the people who represent the counties. So, I fully support that amendment and I also thank the hon. Senators for supporting Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale’s amendment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me also to thank Sen. Sijeny for her amendment to increase the Members of the Chairman’s Panel to three. We also have been sympathizing with you as you sit for very long hours, and we think this will relieve you and also release you to do ... view
• 26 Feb 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is it really in order for the Senate Minority Leader, who we really respect, to stand here and mislead both this House and Kenyans that the Maasais who are being displaced by the geothermal plants in Olkaria are not being compensated? They are, in fact, being compensated in accordance with the settlement arrangement and programme developed with the assistance of the World Bank. So, compensation is there, full and adequate. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just challenged one simple point; where the Senate Minority Leader said that the Maasai community was not compensated in the Olkaria area. He conceded that they were compensated and went on to other generalities. I am not interested in the other generalities, but the Maasai community in Olkaria was compensated in accordance with a resettlement programme developed jointly between the Government of Kenya and the World Bank. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion and the Report. I am a Member of the Committee and I want to commend our able Chairman, Sen. Moi, and his able Deputy Chairman, Sen. Mwakulegwa. Indeed, as Sen. Wetangula has pointed out, this is a very hard working Committee and there is a lot of comradeship within the Committee. We are very supportive of the agenda of this Committee. I am privileged to have served as the Minister for Energy for seven years and I am happy to report that during my tenure as the Minister for Energy, ... view
• 26 Feb 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. My colleague Senator is talking about a game called scrumble, I have not heard of any such game in English language. Is he talking about scrumble or scrabble? view
• 26 Feb 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I so doing, I want to welcome my old friend back. I know that very many people will be talking to him. Very many people will be saying how they prayed for Sen. Wetangula to come back. That happens after the campaigns. Some people come to tell you how they died for you and how they prayed for you. Such people are not with you. You should know the people who were with you even if we did not talk. Sen. Kiraitu Murungi is one of them. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in Senate: I am very happy that Sen. Wetangula is going back to the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations. We should not forget the fact that Sen. Moses Wetangula served as a very able Foreign Minister of this country during the very successful Grand Coalition Government. You will remember that he found himself in problems in West Africa, serving this country. We did not know that he would come back but thank God that he came back. We need such selfless people; people who are ready to lay their lives for Kenyans like Moses did when he was serving as ... view