Kiraitu Murungi

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• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for recognizing and describing this House as the House which is the custodian of ideas. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very important Motion to this country. As we are talking, there is nothing happening. The county assemblies countrywide and the entire devolution process has been paralyzed because of the activities of one executive by the name of Commissioner Sarah Serem. Mr. Speaker, Sir, although Motions of this nature are usually given two hours, it is my very humble request that the Senators be given ample time to ventilate on this issue because it is ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion. What we are seeing is a deliberate attempt to undermine devolution. One of the ways of killing devolution is denying people funds. We cannot hope to develop an effective system of participatory governance at the county level with underpaid, overworked and demoralised members of the county assemblies. We are aware that there are some activities by mandarins of the Executive who are hell bent to make sure that devolution does not work. Some of these people are in those commissions. The commissions are part of ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Therefore, she cannot adjust their payments because she has not got procurement consultants to do it. She cannot evaluate them and, therefore, cannot pay. Seven months have gone by and she had not procured consultants to do it. For how long are we going to sit around and listen to such excuses? The Commission should have internal capacity to do such things. This is not brain surgery. How did she fix salaries of Members of Parliament in such a short time, without appointing procurement people to go and carry out job assessments? Ms. Sarah Serem has acted in contempt of ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am sorry for referring to you as Madam. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: I have withdrawn and profusely apologized. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in Senate: On that note, I beg to support. view
• 10 Oct 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 10 Oct 2013 in Senate: On the same, Madam Temporary Speaker. Thank you for the direction you have made. I am a member of the same Committee and if you listened to what Sen. Wamatangi and other Senators said, actually this is cross-cutting and broad; it covers not only Victory Construction Company but by other contractors as well in other counties. I was requesting if the directive could be broadened so that the Committee looks at the pending and ongoing contracts so that a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be ... view