Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 121 to 130 of 1948.

• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: particular Bill. Proposals to Clause 9 of the Bill are untenable and couched in unlegislative language. Legislation and the law are intended to forestall some kind of mischief. The couching of the language of some of those provisions is mischievous because they attempt to establish basis for rejection or disqualification. In such wide and indeterminate terms, it will be virtually impossible to enforce some of those provisions. I want to fully concur with the Committee in their efforts to clean up and sieve this Bill to come up with provisions that are easier and more effective in terms of enforcement. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Without going into details, disqualification under any written law is a matter that you will have a problem in enforcing. If you say you have been disqualified under any written law, what is the procedure for that disqualification? Who is the authority to determine and enforce that disqualification? Many of those provisions provided in Clause 9 of the Bill by the Senate are untenable and ultimately un-enforceable. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Moving to the proposals by our Committee in their attempt to clean up and sieve those provisions, I have issues with the provision of “any other written law”. Speaking as an attorney of no mean repute, any time you make reference to any written law, you broaden the basis for decision-making to an extent that enforceability becomes an issue. You are actually wading into an arena where you could even infringe on constitutional entitlements of the persons against whom you would seek to enforce this provision. On the question of whether the Committee can bring amendments to clean up this ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill in terms of the objective of streamlining operations of our institutions of higher learning, especially with regard to focusing more on academic programmes that contribute towards achieving our strategic economic goals as a country. We know that education, training and acquisition of skills are key to any economic take- off. For a country like ours that has set very ambitious goals in terms of Vision 2030, you want to put focused training based on serious university programmes at the center of that journey towards Vision 2030. There has been an ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I was in Dubai a few months back and it was very interesting that, other than merely having a city that is a magnet for tourism and investment, this is a city state that has set aside a whole zone for intellectual exploration and exploitation, an almost academic city within a city. You go to places like Hyderabad in India, what is called the Technocity of India and you see a country that has deliberately invested in learning as a means of triggering economic growth. In places like Boston in Massachusetts, universities like Harvard or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: to making Kenya a more cohesive, peaceful and polity nation. We have persons that have sat in this Chamber who have grown out of student leadership, people like Sen. James Orengo, the late Sen. Mutula Kilonzo and Hon. Ababu Namwamba. They have grown out of student leadership and gone on to be leaders of worth in this Chamber and beyond. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Bill. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: No, he is insisting on a point of order. view