VIDEO: No Room for Jokes, Murkomen Compelled to Apologize For Referring to President Kenyatta as a Liar

It is not business as usual in the senate-house as the vocal Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen was compelled to apologize during a special sitting after stating President Uhuru Kenyatta as a liar.

Speaking during the sitting, the outspoken lawmaker claimed that Commander in Chief had lied to the Senate when he promised to provide them with oversight funds after the Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka reinstated his ouster.

“Murkomen is out of the way if I was your stumbling block. Deliver for the people of Kenya. Mr. Speaker, I want to tell the president, stop lying to the Senate. You told us you would give us oversight funds. Bring the oversight funds to the Senate if Murkomen was the stumbling block,” the Senator stated.

Murkomen’s choice of words captured the attention of some senators who graced the sitting with his Siaya counterpart James Orengo demanding him to withdraw his
statement.

“I heard Senator
Murkomen state unequivocally that the president should stop lying to the nation
and he should now deliver the things he had promised.

“Mr. Speaker, is it in order for him to run away from his statement? Mr. Speaker, I urge you that if he cannot withdraw his statements now, we can look at the proceedings this afternoon or tomorrow and he should accordingly withdraw and apologize,” Orengo demanded.

Taking the outspoken Elgeyo Marakwet Senator through the senate-house standing order section 96 which reads, “Neither the personal conduct of the President, nor the conduct of the Speaker or of any judge, nor the judicial conduct of any other person performing judicial functions, nor any conduct of the Head of State or Government or the representative in Kenya of any friendly country or the conduct of the holder of an office whose removal from such office is dependent upon a decision of the Senate shall be referred to adversely, except upon a specific substantive Motion of which at least three days’ notice has been given.”  

The former Senate Majority Leader acknowledging
the house’s Standing Orders that clarified that he did not mean the president was a liar in his utterance.

“I am aware of the standing order. I am very clear in my debate. I just want to conclude by saying that I hope by removing me and Senator Susan Kihika was executed in an unprocedural way and unconstitutionally will improve the relationship between this house and the National Assembly,” Murkomen clarified.

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