Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1531 to 1540 of 1948.

• 22 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on Tuesday, 26th October, 2010, this House adopted a Report from the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, proposing that Justice Isaac Lenaola and Miss Emily Ominde be confirmed as members of the Judicial Service Commission, representing the Association of Judges and Magistrates. The Report I now table before this House is to conclude the process of establishing the Judicial Service Commission by filling the rest of the slots on the Judicial Service Commission. This is in accordance with Article 179 of the Constitution, which at Article 171(2) provides the membership of the Judicial Service ... view
• 22 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am concluding. I am on the last nominees. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee was convinced that Bishop Muheria has the capacity to be objective, fair and just and that he was qualified on the basic grounds. Finally, the Committee did consider Prof. Christine Mango who is a renowned academic and the immediate former Member of Parliament for Butula. In the interest of time, the one issue that the Committee was interested in was to know whether Prof. Mango’s known political affiliation, having recently been an elected Member of Parliament, would cloud her ... view
• 22 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, just allow me to thank the House for the very kind complements to the Committee. I would just urge that even as we pass these nominees to set up the Commission that has such urgent business to undertake, I want to draw the House’s attention to consider the legislation that is critical. I am glad that the hon. Minister has taken note of the same, especially the legislation on vetting and to address all these issues of conflict of interest. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move. view
• 22 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did not know that I had a clone in the House. I just wanted to share with the House that this is a matter that is already being considered by the Committee. We have even sought the opinion of our best legal institutions, including the Law Reform Commission, to help us grapple with the issue of how to deal with the time extension. One of the consideration that the Committee has already taken note of is that this is a matter provided for in the Schedule. It is a matter that provides a time ... view
• 21 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it would be recalled that last Thursday, I moved this Motion inviting the House to adopt the Report of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on the Report of the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission (IIBRC). view
• 21 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in moving this Motion, I had reached a point where I was drawing the House’s attention to a number of guiding principles which guided the Committee in considering this matter. For the record, those guiding principles were as follows: 1. That the IIBRC should be regarded as having been a constitutional process and its Report must, therefore, be dealt with as a product of the exercise of a constitutional mandate; 2. That, however, that constitutional process had raised some fundamental questions requiring answers, including the constitutionality of some of the decisions taken, as well as fairness ... view
• 21 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, based on these principles, the Committee considered a number of options as the way forward out of this matter. The first option that the Committee considered was whether it would be tenable to return the IIBRC to office, with a specific timeframe within which to conclude their constitutional mandate, including gazettement of their Report. The Committee found that this option would have the following advantages:- 1. That the IIBRC has the original express constitutional mandate to undertake the first review and determine constituencies and ward boundaries in accordance with Section 41B(3) of the former Constitution, as ... view
• 21 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this option was also found to have the advantage as follows: 1. That the IIBRC has the institutional memory and real time experience on this matter, and that it is best placed to answer questions on its work; 2. That returning the IIBRC would afford it time for activities previously denied it, including the opportunity for public feed-back, as happened with the Committee of Experts on the Constitutional Review. However, this option would have the following challenges: 1. Returning the IIBRC to office required amending the Constitution, raising the challenge of time and the two thirds ... view
• 21 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: At a meeting held on Monday in Kabete that brought together all Members of Parliament, the House agreed to give the Committee the mandate to consider merging option three and four as presented here and specifically asked the Committee to prepare its own report, bring it to the House for consideration alongside the Report of the IIBRC. view
• 21 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee was also mandated to look into specific outstanding issues. In taking this mandate forward, the Committee named a sub- committee to listen to Members of Parliament on the various outstanding issues that had been identified. The membership of the subcommittee were hon. Mrs. Odhiambo- Mabona as its Chairperson, hon. Amina Abdalla, hon. Isaac Ruto, hon. George Nyamweya and hon. Sophia Noor. That subcommittee received detailed submissions from Members of Parliament both orally and in written form and reduced those hearings in a record that I have tabled before this House, that is now part ... view