Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

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• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I raised a similar Statement in the last term. Sen. Sakaja had a similar issue about asbestos. I am wondering loudly, because this is a World Health Organisation (WHO) concern about the use of asbestos, whether the Committee on Roads and Transportation is the right Committee or should it be referred to the Committee on Health. It is just a wild concern that I have. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, this is just one amongst many of the mega corruptions in this country. It must have become fashionable to steal and it is about who steals more. However, on the Senate Committee on Energy, I must say this. This morning, the Managing Director (MD) for Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) was suspended or he has resigned. He took the option of not being arrested and resigned. We live in a country where you offer a person the option of telling him, „Please, just go home before we arrest you.‟ The question of Zakhem International Construction Company – ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: about. I saw this story on Citizen Television; that there has been a delay and that we are paying for the delay. It is only in Kenya where you construct a wind power farm where there is no wind, and the wind is generated at night and you cannot store it. This is a scandal in every sense of the word. How did we construct this farm if we knew that there was no wind? We should have taken it to the mountains in Makueni County, where there is wind permanently. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what we have read is in our minds and in our hearts and I can tell you that the Report of this Committee does not have a solution. It is lamentations even on recommendations. If you do not order them to have a solution tomorrow, they will come and say; „investigate further, we did not find this, there has been this and that,‟ what are the solutions? We must provide a resolution. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my comment is on procedure. Instead of the Committee displaying all the documents that they have received which they will not read, there should be an index of all those documents plus the dates of the contracts. This is because we have noted that some of the dates are in 2017. That will help us relate the dates of those contracts to the payments which were done prior to 2017. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether this is the time to make a request but I will proceed to make it anyway. The matter of the interpretation of the Constitution as to what concerns counties has become a matter of concern both on this Floor and in other jurisdictions. In fact, Sen. Sakaja circulated a video of a very prominent Member of Parliament (MP) interpreting Article 109(3) of the Constitution. He said that if the Public Service Commission (PSC), the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and matters attendant thereto do not come to the Senate, matters concerning the ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: quite wrongly, that there is a procedure in the Constitution about how the two Speakers can determine a matter concerning counties. That is not in the Constitution. The drafters of this Constitution for some reason envisioned that the people who would sit at the Chair, where you are, would be a man or woman who would not need step by step guidelines as to what concerns counties. Therefore, it has come to the fore that this matter has become very urgent for purposes of guiding this House. This is because all of us are drafting Bills and we have a ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am reading the Advisory Opinion Reference 2 of 2013; paragraph 102. I am only reading three sentences. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: .: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it states that:- “This is a very broad definition which creates room for the Senate to participate in the passing of Bills in the exclusive function area of national Government for as long it can be shown that the Bills have provisions affecting the functional areas of county governments. For instance, it may be argued that although security and policing are national functions, how security and policing services are provided affects how county governments discharge their agricultural functions, as such, a Bill on security and policing would be a Bill concerning counties. With a good ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, please, offer directions. However, the Bill that we have proposed ought to offer us assistance in these guidelines. In every House, just like in every community in this country, there are people who are misled. There are people that, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view