21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
governor and projects superintended over by the county commissioner, who is currently chairing a county development structure. The county commissioner reports to the committee that is led by the Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Fred Matiang’i. The projects that the national Government is undertaking in counties are of much greater value than the monies that the counties are getting. If there is a Kshs64 billion project in Elgeyo- Marakwet, it would be under the purview of the county commissioner. He will be the one to oversee and monitor it and the governor will be left with a Kshs3 billion budget to look ...
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
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21 Mar 2019 in Senate:
229 of the Constitution requires us to consider those reports within three months of tabling. Some of these reports were tabled last week and we only have three months according to the Constitution. If we go beyond that, it will be unconstitutional. We cannot be the same people holding governors to account for acting unconstitutionally and with disregard to the rule law yet we are the same people doing the same thing. The Senate must take a different view as far as oversight is concerned but we must build the capacity of our county assemblies. I do hope that we ...
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20 Mar 2019 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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20 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have rightly noted that this is not the first time that the House is getting involved in this process. For the record, the last time this House had to fight. This House put up a very spirited fight for the interpretation of Parliament being a bicameral institution to be respected by the appointing authorities. I am glad that the appointing or nominating authorities have taken the considerations and discussions that occurred in this House seriously by bringing this to the Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have committed this matter to a Joint Committee of both Houses ...
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20 Mar 2019 in Senate:
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20 Mar 2019 in Senate:
House rejects the report of the Joint Committee, what happens then? Do we have a mediation mechanism or does it mean that the nomination, therefore, collapses? I beg for your guidance.
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19 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank the “Duke of Vihiga County,” Sen. Khaniri, for bringing this important Statement to the House. I was just consulting the Senator for Migori County; and even though our sisters from northern Kenya would consider themselves to be the ones with the greatest amount of problems, it is a problem shared by counties that are at the border. Homa Bay County is at the border with Uganda while Migori is at the border with Uganda and Tanzania. We similarly suffer when it comes to this issue of registration. In the past, it has been ...
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19 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree with Sen. Halake. I have said that it was a process of disenfranchisement, which is a denial of rights. It has been a fact that if you go to certain areas associated with leaders like Sen. Wetangula, there was a feeling that the numbers would be suppressed deliberately. That suppression starts from the issuance of birth certificates. You are also aware that to sit for a national examination in this country, to register for the KCPE or the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), you need a birth certificate. Therefore, when you deny people birth ...
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