16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, I was going to take the same line as my colleague. From the Chair, can you instruct that the security team led by the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government appear before the whole House on Thursday? The matter is very serious and we can look at how the seven days period can be waived.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
It is important that the instruction comes from the Chair. Instead of waiting for the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations to invite him and summon him on a matter as serious as this, the Chair should direct them to come. That direction should then be followed by a letter from the Clerk’s office. As a Committee, we will see what we can do between then and now.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
On a point of information, Madam Deputy Speaker.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, what Sen. Linturi referred to was not on this matter. The Cabinet Secretary was invited for a meeting of joint sitting of the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations and Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights to discuss boundaries matters. It is not true that he declined to come to discuss this matter. As serious as it is, it was not on the same matter. However, I share the same view with Sen. Sakaja. Direction from the Chair is very strong.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, it matters who gives that directive. This House directing that the CS appears on Thursday before a Committee of the Whole is different from the Chair of a Committee issuing an invitation. It has happened before. We have a precedence. You can remember the day some Senators had been arrested. The Cabinet Secretary of Interior and Coordination of the National Government, Hon.(Dr.) Matiang’i was here.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Instruction from the Chair is weightier than from a Committee.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
We are discussing a very substantive matter of rearranging of Committees here and Speaker’s Panel and the House has no quorum. It should not be proper to discuss matters this serious at this time.
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15 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Ideally the cost of fuel should be dependent on the cost of international fuel prices. We are not aware that fuel prices increased all over the world yet the Ministry of Energy keeps on increasing the fuel prices in the country. Taxes account to over 40 per cent of fuel prices in Kenya. In fact, at this time when the economy is down, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is looking for taxes through increasing the price of fuel. In fact, this hurts Kenyans because every aspect of Kenya depends on fuel. So, I agree with other ...
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15 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Ideally the cost of fuel should be dependent on the cost of international fuel prices. We are not aware that fuel prices increased all over the world yet the Ministry of Energy keeps on increasing the fuel prices in the country. Taxes account to over 40 per cent of fuel prices in Kenya. In fact, at this time when the economy is down, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is looking for taxes through increasing the price of fuel. In fact, this hurts Kenyans because every aspect of Kenya depends on fuel. So, I agree with other ...
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