16 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I have been looking for the definition of incompetence and gross misconduct under Article 181 of the Constitution. All the definitions of incompetence, gross misconduct and abuse of office are synonymous with Gov. Wycliffe Ambetsa Oparanya. That is the new definition of incompetence, gross misconduct and abuse of office.
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16 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I am telling Gov. (Prof.) Kibwana, that if he shuts down the Level Four Hospital in Wote, the Sultan Hamud Sub-County Hospital, and Makindu Level Three Hospital, pursuant to a memo issued by Gov. Oparanya, we will impeach him. It is an impeachable offence for a governor to receive a memo from another governor and shut down a hospital. If any person; Mama Mwikali or Mama Mutheu, goes to the Level Four Hospital in Wote to deliver a baby, find it shut down and something happens to that baby, we will hold Gov. (Prof.) Kibwana responsible. It ...
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16 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, there is something about Gov. Oparanya that makes the rest of the Chairpersons of the CoG look good. The incompetence is unbelievable. We must all ask: Yesterday, the same governor was in a meeting with the Head of State. It is even worse that we were in a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Finance and the National Treasury with all the governors, where upon, it was greed that the Supreme Court opinion is not an advisory opinion, but an order.
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16 Sep 2020 in Senate:
I will suggest the following: Other than Gov. Oparanya, the CS in charge of the National Treasury must be discussed on the Floor of this Senate. We do not have power to censure, but we must censure, because that is the person who is working in cohort with Gov. Oparanya, in an attempt to coerce us to move a formula the way they want. It will not happen. You are not going to force, jail or arrest us, even if we send you a pin. If any hospital shuts down tomorrow, we must suspend all our business and discuss the ...
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15 Sep 2020 in Senate:
.: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are in September of 2020. From the proceedings of the last Senate, I suspect that you will have difficulties in 2021 to get Members here because a majority of us will be campaigning.
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15 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Secondly, reggae is back. The campaigns have started. We should sit three times a week between now and December to clear the deck of all the pending business before we get into the era of electoral reform. In the last Parliament, Sen. Orengo and Sen. Murungi co-chaired a joint committee on electoral reforms.
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15 Sep 2020 in Senate:
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15 Sep 2020 in Senate:
The Senate must participate in the preparations for a free, fair and transparent election. We cannot have pending business in 2021 and 2022. I support the amendment proposed by Sen. (Dr.) Ali to sit three times a week for us to clear pending business.
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15 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sure that you are aware by now that your counterpart in the National Assembly has issued a communication on about 10 Bills from the Senate that went to the National Assembly. One of the Bills that the Speaker of the National Assembly gave a communication on is the County Boundaries Bill that was sponsored by Sen. Khaniri, the Senator for Vihiga County. The other Bills include, the Mental Health Bill, a Bill by Sen. (Dr.) Zani and many others.
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