From: Francis Tome
Subject: HON. KIRAITU MUST STOP THIS CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE.
Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 12:38 PM
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am not about to question nor impute improper motives on the courtliness, astuteness and loquaciousness that the so called learned friends cum MPs exhibit in parliament in matters both legal and non-legal. However, I vehemently loath the air of importance surrounding these feathered legislators riding atop the cirrus clouds. In their presumption, any member of parliament not schooled in matters legal has to take leave from the floor of the house when substantive legal issues are raised. At best these lawyers cum MPs behave as if parliament is the precincts of lawyers and any MP who is not a lawyer is looked down upon.
It is therefore not surprising at all that Honorable Kiraitu Murungi on Tuesday 11th September 2009 adopted a discourteous attitude and with a peremptory tone told off an MP who had stood on a point of information whilst Kiraitu was making his contribution on the floor of the house regarding the legality of the re-appointment of retired justice Ringera and his two deputies. Kiraitu opined that the MP in question was unschooled in legal matters and that he was therefore unfit to inform him on any legal issue.
As expected, the speaker himself, a lawyer of repute, took this scathing remark as frolicsome, had a hearty laughter and allowed Honorable Kiraitu to rumble on. This is not only impolitic but also boorish and uncouth effrontery on fellow parliamentarians. Unfortunately, our non- lawyer MPs have had to put up with such condescending attitude from the obstreperous lawyer legislators courtesy of the speaker`s lackadaisical attitude whose appetite for the unpaliarmentary language from the learned friends is seemingly insatiable.
Many are the times I have empathized with non -lawyer legislators who are viewed as being in the August house by default. In fact, beneath the veneer of the rhetoric by the so called learned friends is the laconic message that they are unfit to be in parliament.
It must be clear to these MPs that in this age of information technology, one can easily acquaint himself with the necessary legalese. In fact, Knowledge, whether in jurisprudence or not, is from womb to tomb. One does not have to go to a law school to interpret basic legal matters. Any Tom, Dick and Harry can clearly see through their cagy discourses nay cacophony. Moreover, the fact that more and more people are opting to represent themselves in courts of law instead of enlisting the services of lawyers is a pointer to the fact that have basic legal knowledge necessary for survival. The legislators who are lawyers (whether practicing or not) must stop behaving as if parliament is only meant for lawyers.
TOME FRANCIS,
BUMULA CONSTITUENCY.
KIRAITU MURUNGI
Kiraitu Murungi has more to be ashamed of than to be arrogantly swaggersome about, in Parliament or elsewhere! You need to be reminded over and over again that there is nothing to be proud of Mr Murungi since you are a minister from a party that garnered a mere 45 seats against the ODM’s 105. Are you proud and arrogant because of the rigging that sent nearly 1500 to their early graves, Mr Murungi?
Beware The Ides of Anglo Leasing!
DR ODIDA OKUTHE.
Kraitu Murungi
Bwana Tome, in as much as i agree with your grandiloquent analysis of the saga, i think Mr. Murungi’s banter was in a light touch. I did not discern malice or intent to denigrate the honorable member on the part of Hon. Murungi. I think ambrosia of witty humor is good for a healthy boring yawn-inspiring debate.
odhiscroco
JUST LISTEN TO HIS ACCENT AND HOW HE LAUGHS.
MURUNGI IS AN ACCIDENT.
AMOLLO OKEYO
TANZANIA
IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT FOR OUR MPS TO MAKE USE OF PARLIAMENT LIBRARY TO KEEP ON LEARNING INORDER TO
A BIT OF GENERAL LAW LANGUAGE.PARLIAMENT IS FOR MAKING LAWS AND AMENDING LAWS WHICH NEEDS SOME BASIC LAW
KNOWLEDGE.
IN FACT,MPS SHOULD AVOID HEAVY DRINKING DURING THEIR FREE TIMES FOR THEM TO BE ALERT ALL THE TIME. OF LATE,OUR MPS ARE NOW BUSY MAKING DEALS AND CONSPIRACIES WHICH IS LOWERING THEIR MORAL STANDING IN THE KENYA SOCIETY.
WHEN ARE LEADERS LIKE UHURU KENYATTA GOING TO BEHAVE MATURELY BY AVOIDING SHORT CUT IN KENYA POLITICS WHICH A SHAMING KENYANS.THE FORMER YK 92 MEMBERS WHO ARE NOW MPS ARE SHAMING KENYANS BY THEIR CASUAL WAY OF POLITICING.THE SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOUR OF THESE GROUP OF POLITICIANS WHERE MAKING MONEY THROUGH DEALS HAS COME BACK IN THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THESE GROUP OF POLITICIANS.KENYANS SHOULD VOTE OUT THESE FORMER YK92 MPS INORDER TO BRING SANITY IN KENYA BODY OF POLITICS.
IN FACT KENYANS SHOULD LOOK CLOSELY THE POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR OF JIRONGO,RUTOS,UHURU KENYATTA,AND THE
OTHERS, AND THEY WILL ALSO SAY A TREND OF POLITICS WHICH IS SIMILAR TO ALL OF THEM, CASUAL WAY OF HANDLING HEAVY POLITICAL ISSUES WHICH ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO KENYA FUTURE.