Paul Kimani Wamatangi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Sen. Linturi has been released and he will be here in the House in the next 10 minutes. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this matter was brought here and we have agreed that indeed it is absolutely wrong for any member of this House to conduct business in fear. It is completely unacceptable that a member of this House should be looking behind his back when doing the things that he is doing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am on a point of order. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am on a point of order. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am on a point of order. Let me finish. Any member is free. I volunteered to go and find out. What I am firmly saying is, as far as we are concerned and as a Senator in this House, it is completely wrong for any member of this House to conduct his business looking behind his back in fear. That is absolutely what you were saying. No one should imagine that for any one reason, we would condone that kind of thing. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to say one thing. I said here that we cannot take the freedom of an MP for granted. An MP has the right to prosecute his business and go around in freedom without fearing anything he says or does in this House can be used against him. That is uncompromisable. I just wanted to affirm that because when I stood here, some in this House may have misconstrued that I was speaking for what they call “Deep State”. I am speaking for my friend. Unbeknown to many people here, this morning I had breakfast with ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me put it to rest for anyone in doubt. Sen. Linturi has been my personal friend for many years and he ought to have said that when he was here. Our relationship did not start yesterday. When I went to speak there, I was not only speaking for an MP, but for a friend as well. That is what we shall do for any Member if there is anything. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if I could just raise mine from here. Mine is close to what my colleagues have raised. The Chair referred us to page 88. That time he had told us that they had a very robust discussion on the point as to whether this Bill satisfies the requirement that it is through a popular initiative. He referred us to that paragraph 88 of the report and said that the seven characteristics that binds the two forms of citizen initiated referendums is that they occur against the wishes of either Government or Parliament. The Chair did not tell ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I understood what the Chair said earlier in response to what Sen. Wetangula had raised, when he tried to explain the limitations that the Committee faced when they were considering the legal latitude they could employ in dealing with a popular initiative. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: In that explanation by the Chair, he has said that in dealing with the unconstitutionalism, the remedy would be some people going to court. At what point did the Committee envisage that, that remedy would be found by going to court? view