17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
The Court of Appeal said that, “Parliament, in its wisdom – for Parliament is forever wise – had made a decision about the law. This ruling has confused me to this extent. One---
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: First, I do not know whether you have revived, in your ruling, the objection raised by the Senator for Taita/Taveta County; or have you made an application and ruled on it? That is the confusion I have. However, what is worse, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, although it is good practice and I say this---
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the confusion continues. Assuming that you have been served, the order would have a date of when the matter is going to proceed, which would dictate the process. The reasons Senators are confused is that assuming you have been served, the court order would say that this matter will proceed on 10th, 11th and 12th; which means we cannot proceed until the matter is heard. The third issue is not even about the 30 days. If we are not parties to that order, I would think that the wisdom would be that the Senate would ...
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Your direction would read as such, so that where we have been saying for the last few days, that “no human being is limited,” we should say that Parliament is not limited too. We want you to also protect the jurisdiction of this place. Lastly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the mischief of having an endless and infinitum sort of or ambiguous stay which you have issued, is the case of Gov. (Prof.) Kibwana. He held office after he had been impeached until the elections. This is because when I said we should exercise circumspection on this Floor, Sen. Murkomen thought ...
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: Although good practice would dictate that what you have done is what the court was saying, that Parliament is wise, but we cannot leave it endless. Lastly, I would have preferred that the Committee would have come to you and said, “Please, give us direction;” and say that an order arrived yesterday. You give a direction so that the Committee does not just look as if you have hanged them with a shoe lace, like they appear to.
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, although I do not disagree with you in terms of good practice, because they are listening wherever they are, they have the audacity to injunct us. We should have the audacity to tell them you can injunct on this Floor, and we go to court to tell them you also cannot injunct us since we are co-equals. However, the word “parliamentary stay” for 30 days is wrong in parliamentary parlance, court parlance---
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: It is a word you have introduced, which in future---
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: There was a word introduced by Sen. (Dr.) Zani recently, which did not go down well.
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17 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: “Parliamentary stay” is non-existent.
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