29 Dec 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also join you in thanking Members for passing this Bill. I know coordinating this was very difficult, but you can see that, wherever they are, Members have used technology to vote and it has worked. Now we know we can vote using technology wherever we are.
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29 Dec 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, also knowing what you have to do to be here.
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17 Dec 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion- THAT, Whereas, pursuant to Article 181 of the Constitution and Section 33 of the County Governments Act, 2012, on Wednesday, 3rd December, 2020, the Nairobi City County Assembly approved a Motion for the removal from office by impeachment, of the Honorable Mike Mbuvi Sonko, Governor of Nairobi City County. AND FURTHER, WHEREAS, by letter Ref. No. NCCA/SPK/12/2020(1), dated Friday, 4th December, 2020, and received in the office of the Speaker of the Senate on Friday, 4th December, 2020, the Speaker of the County Assembly of Nairobi City informed ...
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17 Dec 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move - THAT, Whereas, pursuant to Article 181 of the Constitution and Section 33 of the County Governments Act, 2012, on Wednesday, 3rd December, 2020, the Nairobi City County Assembly approved a Motion 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.
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17 Dec 2020 in Senate:
for the removal from office by impeachment, of the Honorable Mike Mbuvi Sonko, Governor of Nairobi City County. AND FURTHER, WHEREAS, by letter Ref. No. NCCA/SPK/12/2020(1), dated Friday, 4th December, 2020, and received in the office of the Speaker of the Senate on Friday, 4th December, 2020, the Speaker of the County Assembly of Nairobi City informed the Speaker of the Senate of the approval of the Motion by the County Assembly and further forwarded to the Speaker of the Senate, documents in evidence of the proceedings of the Assembly; AND WHEREAS, pursuant to Article 181 of the Constitution, Section ...
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17 Dec 2020 in Senate:
I thank all the Senators. The numbers proved to you that Senators paid keen attention to the presentations on both sides. Everybody has been given a chance to be heard. Therefore, this a time of reckoning. I would like to ask Members, you have heard; you made the decision, and now the time has come to put it to a vote. I want to encourage Members that this is your duty and you must act.
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17 Dec 2020 in Senate:
I thank the Speaker and everybody for the way that you conducted this business. I think we may have to reconsider certain things about how we run this business, but the time has come. I will not take long. I am going to move and ask the Leader of Minority to second.
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17 Dec 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is not much I can add. We have had a good two days. We have had the brilliance of lawyers speak to each other in arguments and counter arguments. Members have been given opportunities to make these judgments, and the time of reckoning has come. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want to thank you for steering this House very well during the last two days. I must congratulate you for that. Many times, we urged you to be strong and firm. I thank these Members. The Members have played ...
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16 Dec 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, just practical things. I have seen that there is a string of Senators who want clarification of questions. There is a time allotted at the end of 30 minutes or so, assume that that has been subsumed also because we are free to interrupt any time. We can run that programme concurrently, so that we do not have to wait at the end.
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