5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, I support the Petition, but we also as a Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights coming up with legislation on public participation. However, for some reason, that legislation has been taken over by our sister House and the one we developed has disappeared somewhere in the process. One of the things that Kenya will fault us for is not coming up with a framework on what public participation is.
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5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I notice that you are not wearing a purple ribbon like me, but I will ask you another time. I beg to---
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5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate today, 5th of July, 2016:- The 2009, Kenya Population and Housing Census Analytical Report.
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5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the comments made and will not defend the document. However, we discussed this matter in the Committee of the Senate when we were dealing with the county revenue allocation. The question at the time was whether we can continue allocating revenue based on the population figures that are available on record. Speaking for myself, I think the Senate now has an avenue; that this is the basis upon which Senators can then move to ask for those documents that are in the Court of Appeal and the correct figures, so that by the time we ...
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5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, what I said is that this document was prepared, from my own reading, before the Court of Appeal judgement. Therefore, in sequence, this document came first and the Court of Appeal document came second. The leaders who have an issue with the document have an opportunity to challenge it based on the Court of Appeal ruling. The tabling of that document in the Senate, in own view and I could be wrong, lays a foundation for the leaders of the Senate to say: “Now we have the wrong document that has caused us problems. This is because ...
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5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
No, it was just a month ago. There is no court that has overturned the Court of Appeal ruling. For now that ruling stands.
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5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am glad that you are also studying law like most of us. However, in Standing Order No.48 where Notices of Motion is contained, the leave you are talking about is not there. Standing Order No.48(2) states that:- “Before giving notice of a Motion, the Senator shall deliver to the Clerk a copy of the proposed Motion signed by the Senator, and the Clerk shall submit the proposed Motion to the Speaker.” The exception are in Standing Order No.48(3). I have checked and I can---
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5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Standing Order No.48. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are just doing this for record so that next time we know what we should do. Standing Order No.48 is about Notices of Motion. Standing Order No.48(2) and (3) state:- “(2) Before giving notice of a Motion, the Senator shall deliver to the Clerk a copy of the proposed Motion signed by the Senator, and the Clerk shall submit the proposed Motion to the Speaker. (3) If the Speaker is of the opinion that any proposed Motion — (a) is one which infringes, or the debate of which is likely to infringe, any ...
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5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a sad event but it is a sequence of many things. I am one of the people who visited Sen. Muthama in Pangani. Sen. Muthama and several colleagues were detained for three days and denied basic things. That is called impunity. When police officers arrest and detain a lawyer and his client on their way from the court, this is called impunity. These policemen went further and deleted records. I am surprised that the person who is charge of Syokimau AP Post has not been arrested. This is because if it was not for ...
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5 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is the Kenyan people who wear a Coat-of-Arms and are given ammunition who are turning against Kenyans, yet we pay them to provide protection.
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