Muriuki Karue

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I also ride on that request by the Senate Minority Leader? We would also like to know whether there have been new IDPs after the 2007/2008 Post-Election Violence (PEV) . Further, can we have an audit on how much money has been paid...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki I will just allow the addition because the interest is quite huge.

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Order. You have made your point. You have even exceeded the limit I had allowed. February 10, 2016 SENATE DEBATES Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to add the interest of my county. IDPs of 1992 are still living at the centres. We have...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I join you in welcoming the Members back. Although we have done quite well in passing various Bills and Motions, the effect of that is not being felt. Quite a number of Bills that we have passed go to the National Assembly and...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. We seem not to have that Order Paper that you are referring to.

Sen. (Eng.) MuriukiWith those few words, I beg to support. December 3, 2015 SENATEDEBATES With those few words, I beg to support.

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I will make very few remarks. I congratulate Sen. (Prof.) Anyang-Nyong’o and the entire Committee for a job well done. KQ is dubbed the pride of Africa; it ought to be the pride of Kenya. It has through time degenerated to the shame of...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also support the wonderful and in-depth report by the Committee headed by my friend, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o. Very briefly, I want to say that national airlines are a source of national pride. It is, therefore, important for us to save our airline and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I congratulate the Chair and his team for a good Report although I have not read through the whole of it. It is sad that in the year 2015 we are still talking about KQ issue. I remember Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale in the last Parliament...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I thank Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o for leading us in this Committee, and especially giving me an opportunity to sit as an ex officio. It gave me a chance to see how poor and how weak the KQ management is. It is so weak that...

You have a half a minute.

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for that accommodation. The KQ management deliberately starved this Committee of strategic documents that would have helped us to get to the bottom of the corruption that is currently ongoing. We were not given documents. In fact, we have no idea as a Committee,...

Your time is up!

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the issues have been raised extensively. However, I wish to start by thanking the Committee for doing a very sterling job, particularly, the manner in which the report is presented. It is for posterity, easy to read and has a very good flow. That means that...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also add my voice in supporting this report. We sat in this Committee under the able stewardship of the Chairperson, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o, who was very diligent and passionate and the Vice December 3, 2015 SENATEDEBATES December 3, 2015 SENATEDEBATES

Who is temporary one? For your information, you have four minutes before the yellow light is turned on and then you have one minute to the end of your presentation. Just organise yourselves.

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also thank the Committee and its Chairperson. First of all, it is unfortunate that the National Assembly approved money again to the same institution that we are trying to see how to remove from the darkness that they are in. Let me also send a...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I congratulate my boss, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o. He took that leadership very seriously. I am glad to have been elected the Vice-Chair of the Committee. We had a very strong team that worked very well. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, US$700 million is a lot of money...

You are the Vice Chairperson, so you have one more minute.

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a difference between code- sharing and shareholding. The code-sharing arrangement must be studied and revised by the new structure of Kenya Airways. Finally, we recommended about the marketing director. The issue of how Kenya Airways is pricing its tickets is so serious and severe....

Hon. Senators, we have one hour and 10 minutes before we end this morning session. We have two very important Motions ahead of us. I propose that the next set of speakers; we have about five Members who will do three minutes each so that we can prosecute the two...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first, I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your election to chair the proceedings of this House. In the short while you have been there, you have demonstrated quality and authority.

Kabisa!

Kenya Airways as the national carrier is critical to the economy of Kenya considering the impact of its operations in terms of foreign exchange earnings. Furthermore, it plays a major role in promoting tourism in this country. There is also need to make Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) a regional...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to add my voice to this Motion. First, I take the opportunity to thank Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’ Nyong’o and Sen. Kagwe for a job well done. As much as we are trying to support this Airline, it is painful....

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would also like to add my voice to the Report by the Select Committee on the Inquiry into the Affairs of Kenya Airways. I have looked at the observations that the Committee made and I see that the most contributing factors to the...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to thank the Chair of the Committee who was very patriotic and for having brought up the issue when KQ was still afloat. We have heard issues where institutions have gone down before we can have commissions to look at them....

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for recognizing that I have to say something as a Member of the same Committee. First, I want to congratulate you for taking the Chair. It is a wonderful seat and I wish everybody else can have a test of it. It is important...

Sen. Karaba, are you suggesting that in this House there are other Members who, if they sat in that Committee they would not be serious?

No, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. If that is what you have understood, I am saying that we are all serious but they were taking the business very seriously including you, the Chair, because I know you are also a Member of that Committee. What has been recommended, therefore, should not...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for allowing me to contribute in support of this Report. Many Kenyans are suffering due to the looting of taxpayers’ money by some people. We then establish commissions of inquiry which spend more money. We are impoverishing this country because money is being lost...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first, I would like to thank the Committee and particularly the Chairperson, who was my Chairman in the Public Investments Committee in 1993 and 1994, when we were young legislators. We were the first to recommend that such characters who have committed economic crimes must not...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I want to thank the Chairperson of this Committee, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o. I have never seen the level of dedication and commitment that I have seen from many who chair committees. He was always there on time. This Committee did a...

There being no other interest on this matter, I now call upon the Mover to reply. In the same spirit, I hope you can take the shortest time, so that we can proceed.

On point of order. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise on a point of order on purely a matter of procedure. I support what Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’- Nyong’o is doing but that is not the way to do it. He would require to move an amendment and he does not...

Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’- Nyong’o, according to the Standing Orders, you cannot make an amendment when you are replying but in any case the HANSARD has captured what you are saying. Just conclude making your reply.

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in my reply, that will be recorded and I am sure that the Committee on Implementation when they are forwarding the report to the implementers will include that summary of the expression in the House during the debate. December 3, 2015 SENATEDEBATES

I really do not want us to stretch that far.

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what will go to the Committee on Implementation and indeed any other agencies like Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) or CID will use the report and not the HANSARD. At this stage, the Chair needs to guide the House on what we can do so...

We are saying that we should have had that amendment at an earlier time, you cannot move it when you are replying to the Motion. Since the Committee on Implementation is a Committee of this House, they will be properly seized of the Report but also of the HANSARD. We...

Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, I get your point and I fully support it .Just two more points. In implementation, I would like to support and underscore Sen. Keter’s observations that the Airline adopted the issue of outsourcing labour as a way of avoiding labour unions which is unconstitutional. In the...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate today, Thursday, 3rd December, 2015:- Report of the Ad Hoc Select Committee on County Headquarters. (Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki laid the document on the Table) REPORTS ON VISITS TO VARIOUS COUNTIES

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the ad hoc Select Committee on County Headquarters laid on the Floor of the House today, Thursday, 3rd December, 2015. ESTABLISHMENT OF REHABILITATION CENTRES IN COUNTIES

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Asante sana, Bw. Naibu Spika, kwa kunipa nafasi niweze kuchangia Hoja hii ambayo imeletwa na Seneta Hargura. Nchi nzima kweli kuna kilio kingi na tumewapoteza watu wengi kwa sababu ya ugonjwa wa saratani. Nimesikiza Seneta Hargura alipokuwa akituelezea zile shida wamepitia katika lile eneo, na vile watu...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) MuriukiNovember 19, 2015 SENATEDEBATES

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the good information from the distinguished Senator for Nyandarua. It is exactly what I was emphasizing. There is a mistaken notion, particularly in the Senate, that the Equalisation Fund should be shared on the basis of counties. It should not be counties, but areas...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. First, I thank Sen. Hassan for being innovative enough to come up with this Bill on economic and social rights. This is an area that has previously not been emphasized. Although we have been...

Order, Senator! Your time is over! Since there is no other request, I now call upon the Mover to reply.

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What is the point of order, Senator?

On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise under Standing Order No.54 (3) to seek that you defer putting of the question because this is a Bill that affects counties.

As he has put, the Bill concerns all counties. As you have requested, I defer putting of the question to next week. (Putting of the question deferred) November 19, 2015 SENATEDEBATES THE WATER BILL (NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BILL NO.7 OF 2014)

The first Motion is also deferred. MEASURES TO MITIGATE TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN NAIROBI METROPOLITAN REGION November 19, 2015 SENATEDEBATES RESOLUTION TO RENEW THE MANDATE OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE INQUIRING INTO THE NEEDS OF THE 47 COUNTIES FOR HEADQUARTERS FACILITIES FOR A FURTHER PERIOD OF 45 DAYS Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) MuriukiNovember 19, 2015 SENATEDEBATES

Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to second the Motion. It has come at the right time when we were wondering why some counties do not have county headquarters to the amazement or embarrassment of the country which has been built for the last 50 years....

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I happen to be a Member of that Select Committee. I want to confirm that the assignment given to that Committee proved to be massive. It involved consultations with a number of institutions, including the Transition Authority (TA) , Ministry of Lands, Housing and...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- AWARE THAT, the Senate on 30th July, 2015, resolved to establish a Select Committee consisting of nine Senators to conduct an inquiry into the needs of the 47 counties for headquarters facilities and report back...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Madam Temporary Speaker, the notice of Motion is about a report from a visit by the Committee. Perhaps, the Vice Chairperson of the Standing November 12, 2015 SENATEDEBATES (Laughter)

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Allow me to add my voice on this one. It would appear that what the Chairman is calling militias, notwithstanding the definition by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, the fact, is that the militias are everywhere. It does not matter what they are...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Following the Statement by Sen. Murungi on behalf of the Senate Majority Leader, I have an issue with regard to the Bills he has listed which are coming at earlier stages. We have a situation where the Bill is read for...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think the position taken by Sen. Murungi on behalf of the Senate Majority Leader is correct. I know it is a matter of procedure and we may end up grounding ourselves mainly because either the Members are busy or generally not available...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you, for giving me this chance to contribute to this important Motion. I stand to support this Motion moved by the distinguished Senator, Sen. Adan. I did not have the benefit of listening to the Mover when she moved the Motion, nonetheless,...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Committee is a joint committee of both Houses. The person we have substantially in the House is the vice chairperson, Sen. Hargura. I should also, perhaps, alert the Chair that I was contacted by one of the clerks serving the Committee who...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was a question I had raised regarding appointments which had happened sometime in March, 2015. So, I requested the Speaker and he agreed that I withdraw that and ask the question regarding all parastatals throughout the country. The gist of the question...

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is quite in order.

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Yesterday, I did allude to the fact that we are following a presidential system of Government. So, a statement that is rendered in this House technically is a statement by the Chairman of the Committee and not anybody else. That is the system that we are following....

Sen. (Eng.) Karue

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Could you seek a clarification, Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki?

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Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Karue

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki

Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki Thank you, Sen. Omar. I promise you that I will take it up and it is not going to happen again. I have given that undertaking already and that is a promise I can give you. When it happens like it has happened today, it is cannot...