Kiraitu Murungi

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• 24 Sep 2013 in Senate: children and women. So, what has happened at Westgate Mall is a typical terrorist situation where they go for soft targets. The whole idea of a terrorist is not even to overthrow a government. They have no capacity to overthrow a government. What they do is to spread fear and paralysis in society. In fact, they are considered as mosquitoes. Mosquitoes cannot take over a house, but they can make so much noise in the house that you do not sleep. So, the terrorists in Kenya cannot be stopped at Westgate. They will continue disturbing Kenyans and looking for soft ... view
• 10 Sep 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am rising on a point of order following the guidance from the Chair which was sought by Sen. James Orengo. The Senator said that it was necessary for you, as the Speaker, to set a precedent in this House by giving reasons as to what would make you consider a matter to be urgent and exceptional and, therefore, under what you could allow a Motion like the one we are just about to debate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is absolutely no requirement in the Standing Orders for such a request to be made for ... view
• 10 Sep 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious Motion, and that is why we came from our recess. You see what is happening here is that there is even an attempt to make sure that this Motion is not properly debated. All these side shows are intended to derail this Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, would I be in order to request you to exercise your powers under Standing Order No.1; to rule out all points of order and interjections until the end of this Motion? view
• 10 Sep 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Despite what happened at the beginning, I actually think my learned junior, who is the leader of the few in the House, has made some important contribution to this House. We were in the Cabinet with him – we would not disclose to you what happened there – but there was one thing that the Grand Coalition Government was very clear about; and that was that the trials of the post-election violence should be handled through a local tribunal--- view
• 10 Sep 2013 in Senate: Yeah, I am giving you credit for that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a Bill was even brought to Parliament establishing a local tribunal, but it was rejected by the National Assembly. Sen. Wetangula said that we should have a Kenyan solution to Kenyan problems, that one I do agree with him 100 per cent. They say that the sky is blue and that whether you sing and dance that the sky is green, it will never been green. I want to urge my learned junior, irrespective of the circumstances that have come in between, if there is a fundamental belief that ... view
• 10 Sep 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish he was a bit more patient because I was coming to that. For those who are familiar with happenings in international law, there is a new project, again conceived in the West, called promoting the rule of law abroad. For all these projects including the International Criminal Court (ICC), the funding is put together by the West and not by you. It is put together under that project of promoting the rule of law abroad. It is intended to look at countries which “are supposed to have weak, ineffective, dysfunctional governments, dysfunctional police and dysfunctional ... view
• 25 Jul 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to seek your guidance on these Motions. I have noted that Sen. Wako took about six minutes to read the preamble to his Notice of Motion. The operational sentence of the Notice of his Motion is; “the Senate calls on the national Government to take immediate measures to set up a training institute or college to give necessary appropriate training to the personnel of county governments.” Tomorrow, we will get a Senator who will give us two pages of a preamble. Can we not have a simpler way of ... view
• 23 Jul 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 23 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, should we sit here and listen to irrelevancies, contrary to our Standing Orders? Where does the President come in all this and how does his signature write off the Senate? 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. view
• 18 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank the Senate Leader of Majority, through Sen. Haji, for the statement they have given. However, the statement is erroneous and totally or grossly inadequate. You have heard the Senator saying that view