Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I will not attempt to speak Kiswahili after Sen. Madzayo because I will just butcher it. I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Faki. I urge him because he is an attorney and an advocate of the High Court of Kenya to proceed to court and seek the intervention to suspend Executive Order No.5. view
• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) proceeded to court and the High Court of Kenya suspended Executive Order No.1 through which the Executive attempted to control the Judiciary. I keep on saying that we have made so many steps forward, but now we are making quickly steps backwards. view
• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: This House and the National Assembly are the Houses which have been given powers by the Constitution to make legislations. Legislations are made by this House and doing so corporations are created. Think of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) and Kenya Pipeline Corporation. The Kenya Pipeline Corporation (KPC) is established under the Petroleum Act. What are we doing when we take a body that is managed each by an Act of Parliament and consolidate them all into one, with an argument that you are trying to instill discipline in corporate governance, but you violate the rule of law yet? We ... view
• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: We talk about having democracy in this country, but it is now a pure dictatorship. It is a shame that a legal brain that we have in the Attorney-General; a former judge of the Court of Appeal, can sit there and see this happening. I wonder what these people do when they get closer to power. When they sit in that Bench, they are called “My Lord” but when they leave, they go back and become street vendors. That is not right. view
• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: I saw the National Treasury and Planning also directing KPC, Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) and KPA to consolidate their budgets. What are we talking about? We have different corporations established under different Acts of Parliament and now just like the distinguished Senator from Bungoma was asking, how do they account for the use to those funds? view
• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: I tend to think this country was mortgaged a long time ago. When you hear arguments that these three corporate bodies have assets to the tune of Kshs1.1trillion and that their annual budget is about Kshs600 billion, then it will lead me to conclude that it is a way to lie to the Chinese from whom we have taken billions of Kenya shillings, that we have the capacity to pay. view
• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: I sit in the Senate Committee on Energy. Mr. Ngumi, now the Chairperson of the Information Communication and Technology (ICT) came to try and respond to issues of the Line Five Kenya Pipeline. His own actions as a person who came in and intervened The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: has now caused this country to pay a contractor millions of dollars. He came in; interfered with a contract and now we are losing more money. Is that not a travesty of the rule of law? view
• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: It is wrong. In fact, when we raised issues about the legality of this--- view
• 16 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it now behooves us, Members of this House and the National Assembly, to demand for accountability from the Executive. We keep arguing that, “Oh, the Executive is the one giving us money.” This is not true. It is this House that the Constitution has given powers to divide revenue between the two arms of Government. view