Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: had proposed an amendment – was the Senator for Mombasa County at the time. He told me; “Why do you not allow Jubilee Party to merge because this is the only way that you will break Jubilee Party?” view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: That time, it was made sarcastically. Right now, one of the governors is suffering out of the Security Laws Amendment Bill. We opposed it in terms of just detention unnecessarily for too long. view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: Whilst you are feeling the pain of some of the decisions that have been made, it is just advice that some of the things that we raise on the Floor – even if we are from the Minority side and you can see how stable we are – you were laughing at us at some point. It is not like we do not have our share of problems but we know how to manage them. view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: Please, do not write letters or speak candidly to the press. Just find a way of how you will handle your political party affairs in a better fashion. I do not think there is a way that Sen. Cheruiyot is suggesting that political parties can be managed on the Floor of the Senate. It is just impossible. view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: In other jurisdictions, in fact, the minute you vote against your political party decision, you are deemed to have defected. We are even better off where you can disagree with your political party; form a political party within your political party; wear a t-shirt of another political party; and, exist in that political party without defecting. It is only in Kenya where people can do that and walk around and say they have the liberty to do so. We have abused the Political Parties Rights of being in a political party under Article 38. This is because if you disagree ... view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a good year. We condemned the demolitions in Kariobangi in the same vein when Sen. Sakaja brought the matter. The demolitions were done at night during the COVID-19 period. I said at the time, and say it now, that both governments have always been very insensitive to the plight of poor Kenyans. I saw the demolitions. Even if those residents are on Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) land, KRC land is not an alien. It belongs to Kenyans. Therefore, there is no justification whatsoever for that demolition. view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: Perhaps Sen. Outa can even refer to the law that we passed on land valuation. In fact, for purposes of acquisition of land, even the people who are on public land must be given notice. People who are and have lived on public land are given some element of rights for purposes of acquisition. It is a violation of human rights. I said it in the Kariobangi case that it is an international violation of human rights. The people responsible for the demolition must be taken to task and to book because what they did is unlawful and illegal. There ... view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: In the days when we could open private prosecution – now the Director of Criminal Investigations does not work as well as they used to those days – you would institute private prosecution against the people who conduct demolitions at night during a pandemic. It is a violation. We must treat it as such. view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: I encourage Sen. Outa to forward a complaint to the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC) for purposes of investigation and charging of those people because it is a violation. Let us call it what it is. It is a violation of human rights and Article 28 of the Constitution. There is an Article in the Constitution called the Right to Human Dignity. Even giving somebody a toilet is a right to their dignity. Denying children food and shelter at night is a violation and must be treated as such. view
• 10 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to say that I am a proud chairperson of a board of a school in Nairobi. I deliberately as chairperson ordered that there should be CCTVs in the dormitories. The boys objected and protested, but eventually we had our way as the board. How did this help? A year ago, these boys did not know that we were recording them at night. This boy and a few others got paraffin and lit one of the dormitories. The unfortunate thing about that fire is that there was one boy who was either epileptic or ... view