Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I wish the Senate Majority Leader was here when I am making my submissions. Let me begin by supporting this Bill. I think this is a very important Bill though I have a few concerns, which of course, I will raise. For the last 12 years which the CoG has been in place, it has been operating illegally. If you look at the current Statute, which is now currently being amended, it sets the Intergovernmental Relations Agency as the Secretariat of the CoG. I have a big problem with setting up this CoG in Statute ... view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: The executive in its budget will also set aside some money to set up a club of men and women to sit down and chat. This is shareable revenue; money that is supposed to go to support counties. When the framers of the Constitution set up the Intergovernmental Relations Agency, which was the Transitional Authority, they saw it fit to set up an independent body that could balance the relationship between the two arms of government; the national Government and the Council of Governors (COG). Madam Temporary Speaker, I have a problem with over-legislation. I have a problem with saying ... view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Today’s Order Paper talks about reinventing the wheel and, amending the Division of Revenue Bill. Hypothetically, if we pass this Bill, rush it fast and it is assented into law, does that not mean that county governments will now have to redo their entire budgets again, and create a new budget line to be able to fund the COGs? Sen. Kajwang’ will tell you that for the last 10 years, we have been agonising over the legality of county governments funding the COG. Since they have been operating in an illegal framework throughout, the best thing to do is to ... view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I hate to interrupt my good brother, the distinguished Senator for Homa Bay County. I followed his submissions and wanted clarity on a couple of issues. Madam Temporary Speaker, the first issue is that the distinguished Senator said that the first CEO of the COG, who is now a Judge in the Court of Appeal was smart, did a good job and outsmarted the IGRTC by setting up the COG secretariat. Is the Senator in order, knowing clearly that Section 13 of the Act specifically sets the IGRTC as the secretariat of the COG? Is he saying ... view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: The second issue I want some clarity on from the distinguished Senator--- view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Standing Order No.105 on statement of facts. view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, everything we say here remains on record. I have a big problem with the existence of the COG illegally. I would like to get some clarity from my good friend, Sen. M. Kajwang’, who was the Chairperson of the Committee on Devolution in the last Parliament and I also served with him in the CPAC. We agonized on the legality of the COG. view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: I am on a point of order. No, you cannot, I am on a point of order. view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Chief Whip is an old dog. He has been in this House for some time. He knows that when there is a point of order--- view