Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1871 to 1880 of 3800.

• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First, I join you in welcoming the school from Bomet and the one from Machakos. Secondly, I agree with Sen. Murkomen. I do not know whether the picture taken when the President was signing this Bill into law is correct because I saw him there. However, may be, it is an old picture. He was there, staring. He should have protested. view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I just wanted to confirm that it was a real picture. Sen. Murkomen has denied pictures before which looked like a photoshop. Mr. Speaker, Sir, although I agree with The Assumption of Office of the County Governor Bill, I am not sure whether you and my good friend, the Senate Majority Leader were summoned without communication. This is because he says that you were called to sign something that you were not aware of and you were, therefore, ambushed. We should find a method where you can raise a point of order, possibly, at that ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: I am a little bewildered. Therefore, we call upon the Leadership to help. view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: You did not invite me to State House. I would have protested. I am aware that the Senate Business Committee (SBC) has made a decision about the medical leasing equipment. May be, that is the entry point. Since the Committee on Health has not done what it is supposed to do, we call upon this House to stand up to be counted on the medical leasing equipment scandal. That is where the rubber will meet the road. That is how we will prove that we truly protect counties. This is because if we are under attack, The electronic version of ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: nobody believes that we are truly protecting counties. We look like we are escorting counties to their downfall. view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the proposed Bill by Sen. Olekina. Sen. Wetangula calls it ‗industry;‘ he is an industrious Senator; and I could not agree more. Let me just get a few things out of the way. One, we do not need a referendum under Article 255 to reform our electoral system. This is not part of what is under Article 255. We just need simple amendments. Secondly, I sat as a member of the Special Select Committee that was led by Sen. Kiraitu Murungi and Sen. James Orengo, which came up with a ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: amendments. I also agree with Sen. Pareno that we need to have comprehensive legal reforms. We need to amend the ―A‖ to ―Z‖ of the elections laws. There are several things that have been passed by this House which are extremely objectionable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the last time that we debated the controversial Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, we sat here until midnight. The Jubilee Party side voted for the Senate not to have a role on matters of boundary reviews concerning wards and constituencies. That is in the law. Our colleagues also voted to have in law and refused ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Senate has no role on the issue of diaspora voting. That is why I have proposed that we need to relook at this issue. We passed a very controversial amendment under Section 44(a), on the complementary mechanism of elections. If Sen. Pareno wants to know how our presidential candidate lost the election, she should look at Section 44(a). We argued so much on this amendment. We were barricaded here. The former Speaker, hon. Ethuro, ordered the police out. We adjourned because we were intimidated. The police officers were everywhere just for us to pass a ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we had a contentious election and people lost their lives. I sometimes speak against the ‗Handshake,‘ because it appears as if it is business as usual to have bad elections because it might result in a deal. We, as a country, cannot justify bad elections. The precedence that was set in 2007 should have been the last that it is okay to steal an election. The person that you spent so much on is sleeping in France, and yet the correct position is that the person was in Nairobi. We told Mr. Chiloba to go away, ... view
• 14 May 2019 in Senate: expect to call that commissioner. If you appoint a Kikuyu as a commissioner, you expect to call him and ask him whether he is taking care of the tribe. Fortunately, Mr. Chebukati is not a Kikuyu or Kalenjin. Imagine that you have a candidate who is Kamba, and the person who is qualified as the Chairperson of the IEBC is Kamba; do you think this country will accept the results? Of course not, because we do not trust anything. Even if we put Archbishop Njue in that position, at some point, we will look at him and think of him ... view