Senator Orengo; Legislative Summit a Waste of Time

Senate Minority Leader James Orengo has trashed the importance and effectiveness of the Legislative Summit terming it a talk shop and waste of time.

The Siaya Senator was speaking at the official opening session of the summit, where he pointed out that there is little to show from the last three summits.

“The importance and effectiveness of this summit will only be when resolutions are implemented or become actionable. So far this summit is a talk shop.

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“I don’t want to cheat you that the promises we make today are going to be implemented. The summit cannot be compared to the Council of Governors’ summits whose results can be seen,” said the Siaya senator.

He suggested that working groups be formed to come up with a legislative framework to anchor the annual legislative summit in law as a statutory body like the Council of Governors.

“This Summit is not recognised in any legislation. It just happens that we like each other and we come to meet every year,” he said.

“Even before you go into pushing for individual statutes that you want Parliament to pass, I am hoping you can work on having this summit anchored in law,” Mr Orengo said.

However this raised a debate when Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen disagreed with Mr Orengo, saying the forum has never been a talk shop.

“If this forum was a talk shop we would never have secured the independence of county assemblies,” he said, recalling the first summit in 2015 which he said gave birth to the County Assemblies Forum (CAF).

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