Robert Gichimu Githinji

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I rise to support the adoption and subsequent appointment of Mr. Charles Hinga Mwaura to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. I echo my colleagues’ sentiments. The Committee has done a good job. My request to Mr. Hinga is that he should make sure that he does not concentrate on housing and urban development in the cities only. We also have very many urban centres within our areas which require tarmacking and other developments which are very necessary for our people. Of specific concern is my headquarters at the constituency ... view
• 28 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support. view
• 12 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for that opportunity. I beg to support this Motion for Adjournment. We all know that we are headed for another period of campaigns where we are required to join our party leader and his deputy in the campaign trails. We have been holding this Parliament trying to straighten the laws that will make us go to the elections in a free and fair manner. This is the time to add onto their efforts to criss-cross the country and try to gather all the votes that the Jubilee leaders require in order to take this ... view
• 11 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Chairman. I wish to support the amendments because when the wording is “manual transmission of results”, it may not be very clear. It may also attract some legal interpretations. When it is indicated that the results will be delivered physically, then there is no challenge as to the manner in which the results will be transmitted, being an alternative to electronic transmission. I believe that is a very good clarification. I wish to support the amendment. view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this debate. First of all, I must be excited by hon. Members on your left for being supportive of the Bill before this House. I would like to start by saying that one of the pivotal roles of Members of Parliament is to legislate. It is not upon people from outside this country to do so. It is not upon the people who are demonstrating on the streets to dictate to the Members of the National Assembly as to when they should be legislating in order to put ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Section 44 deals with technology and it has been proposed that it should be amended. The proposed amendment that the Commission implements another mechanism for purposes of voter identification is very crucial. In the election of 8th August 2017, many people went to vote and because their fingerprints could not be detected by the Kenya Integrated Election Management System ( KIEMS ), they were turned away. This amendment seeks to cure that problem. So, no registered voter would be turned away just because of a failed KIEMS machine. Also, there is no vote that will not be considered at the ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not know why our opponents are saying that some of these amendments that are being sought are not proper, when actually one of the amendments that is being sought is to remove a section which has already been declared by the court as The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: unconstitutional. It means that they may want to use that provision of the law that has been declared unconstitutional to nullify elections that may follow. These amendments are not only being made for the purposes of the re-election on 26th October 2017. They are being made even for future elections so that we do not fall into the problems that we found ourselves in after the Supreme Court ruling. view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Another exciting amendment is the one that states that if there is a discrepancy between electronic transmission and physical delivery of the results, then the physical delivery of the results will prevail. That is addressed under Section 39. That should always be the case because voters at every polling station vote manually. Every person expects that the votes are cast manually and that everything was done manually as has been indicated by the Co-Chairman of the Joint Select Committee. It is those results that should be declared because they are the original results. Electronic transmission could fail. Figures can be ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: To sum up, on the issue of penalties, I think elections in this country are very important. Presidential elections determine the direction of leadership in this country. Whoever jokes with that process by way of making a deliberate mistake should face the full force of the law. So, the penalty prescribed in the proposed amendments should apply. view