Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1321 to 1330 of 1948.

• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am particularly keen on 259(1) (a) which says “promotes its purposes, values and principles.” One of the purposes that is clear in this Constitution is to provide a platform that would protect the Coalition Government that takes due cognizance of the special circumstances that brought it into being. It appreciates the critical role that that unique arrangement, that very special, almost one of the arrangements of the Coalition Government, has in transiting this country from that arrangement to the new order contemplated by this Constitution. I, therefore, would wish to invite you to take keen interest ... view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, permit me to read Article 12(2) of the Sixth Schedule. “The persons occupying the offices of Vice-President and Deputy Prime Minister or holding a position in the Cabinet or as an Assistant Minister immediately before the effective date shall continue to serve in accordance with the former Constitution until the first general elections held under this Constitution unless they vacate or are removed from office in accordance with the former Constitution and the National Accord and Reconciliation Act, 2008.” view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when the Constitution talks about vacation and removal in the terms of the former Constitution and the National Accord, it also contemplates replacement. There can be no vacation or removal without replacement. If this Constitution at that Article contemplates vacation or removal in accordance with the former Constitution and the National Accord and Reconciliation Act, it can only contemplate replacements in view of that vacation or removal in terms of the former view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, nothing could be clearer from the construction of Article 12(2) of the Constitution which contemplates vacation or removal. Whether you want to look at them as new appointments, they must be seen as positions that arose out of an Executive act of removal. That is what is contemplated in Article 12(2). The Constitution did contemplate that the Government is an exercise of human actions. Circumstances would arise, where the Cabinet would run into instances of vacation or removal. view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: The operating word in Article 12(2) is “removal”. So, whether a Member wishes to engage in semantic summersaults and debate whether this is a new or an old appointment, what is critical here is to look at it as an appointment occasioned by removal as contemplated in Article 12(2) of the Constitution. view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, with your indulgence, the construction that I have applied to Article 12(2) and Article 29 of the Sixth Schedule, in my humble view, is that the Cabinet is not being constructed a new. The Cabinet already exists and any vacation or removal of any Member of that Cabinet that results in replacements would not properly fall under the contemplated new appointments in Article 29 of the Sixth Schedule. view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Bw. Naibu Spika, ninakushukuru kwa fursa hii nichangie mjadala huu kuhusu hii sheria ya kubuni Tume hii. Kati ya Tume zote ambazo tumepata fursa ya kubuni chini ya hii Katiba mpya, hii ndiyo Tume ambayo tunaweza kuita Tume ya mwananchi wa kawaida. Hii ni Tume ya Mkenya wa kawaida. Tume hii itashughulikia masuala ya Mkenya wa kawaida katika sehemu mbalimbali za taifa hili, hasa kwenye sehemu za mashinani. Utakumbuka kwamba swala la Tume hii kutazamwa kama Tume ya mwananchi wa kawaida ni muhimu sana kwa sababu sasa tunaingia kwenye mfumo wa kusambaza mamlaka na rasilmali katika sehemu za mashinani katika ... view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Bw Naibu Spika, ninashukuru. Inafaa kufahamika kwamba tunatekeleza Katiba na tunabuni sheria ambazo zina umuhimu mkubwa. Ninaamini kwamba Bunge hili lina jukumu la kuhakikisha kwamba tunachukua muda wa kutosha ingawa tumo kwenye haraka, lakini ifahamike pia kuwa haraka haraka haina baraka. Mhe. Godhana anafahamu sana kuwa haraka haraka haina baraka. Ni muhimu sana Tume hii iweze kusambaa na tuweze kuiona na kuihisi katika sehemu zote za taifa hili ili wananchi kule mashinani ambao kila mara haki zao zinadhulumiwa waweze kupata nafuu kupitia kwa Tume hii. Ningependa kuunga mkono wale ambao wamependekeza kuwa afisi kuu ya Tume hii iwe katika sehemu ... view
• 18 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- view
• 18 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: THAT, deeply concerned with the devastation of the prolonged drought on farming activities that has occasioned heavy losses to farmers; aware that many affected farmers have loans from the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) amounting to a total of Kshs4.48 billion; concerned that the prolonged drought has adversely affected farmers’ capacity to service the said loans with effect that a loan portfolio of Kshs1.81 billion has now been classified by AFC as bad loans due to widespread default; convinced that unless this loan portfolio in default is addressed urgently, the AFC and the agricultural sector face the risk of irreparable damage; ... view