22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
complying with the directions that are here. It is not enough to pass this document. Let us find a method that we can follow up and make this to be like an order. If a Committee of the Senate under Article 125 of the Constitution sits as a court-- -
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if a Committee of the Senate like the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investment is sitting as a court under Article 125, why can our recommendations not go like a court order? We can attach, like we do, a penal notice and the resolution of the Senate saying that if the Auditor General does not comply, we are either going to seek sanctions against him by either a fine, imprisonment or something for that to be an order for him to comply with. A letter is not good enough. There must be a sanction. What ...
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was being harassed.
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was looking at you for protection.
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am sorry.
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a contradiction and Sen. M. Kajwang’ mentioned it today. I think that we should make an amendment to the Public Audit Act but it will be better if we can find a way of doing it without an amendment because an amendment would be a little bureaucratic. Is it possible to have the details in the report going to the county assemblies and the overarching issues that Sen. M. Kajwang’ and the Committee have addressed on page one to 17 come to the Senate for us to deal with them? When we went to ...
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
seen and okayed. On the face of it, they are right because they had checked. However, we checked and disagreed. The law has no dichotomy as to where the boundaries are. That is the reason as to why Governor Wycliffe Ambetsa Oparanya, became very belligerent in the last Senate, and ended up getting a ruling which said that we have a concurrent function. Yes, it is concurrent but to what extent can we go into the details as compared to the county assemblies? If you sit in a court of concurrent jurisdiction, that is if you are a judge of ...
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Sen. Orengo has addressed my concern. I only wish to inform the House that the two Committees are at full quorum, and we have commenced the work.
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. At some point when I was young, there was a case in which Sen. Orengo argued in the Mwai Kibaki
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