Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1701 to 1710 of 1948.

• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to second this Motion. view
• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me start by saying that, today, we make a giant step in a process that has taken this country no less than two decades. For two decades, we have been on a search for a new constitutional dispensation. view
• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this search has cost this country dearly in terms of resources, mental capital and all. During these 20 years, we have stumbled, made mistakes and learnt along the way. We have learnt that in the past, we have failed because of over-personalising the process. Looking back at a processes like Bomas Conference and the Referendum of 2005, we can learn that by personalising the process and building the search of a new Constitution around issues of political contest, we lost the track. view
• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have allowed sectarian interests; religious, ethnic, regional and political, to divide us and completely blind us from the main goal which is to bequeath this country a new constitutional dispensation. view
• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have also failed in the past because organs of review, and if you look at organs like Bomas Conference and Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (CKRC), which were structured around interest groups. Those organs were built around the so-called view
• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: 4814 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES February 10, 2009 view
• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: stakeholders. So, the Constitution review process ceased to be a process where we can sieve our fears and aspirations as a nation soberly and objectively, to reduce it to a contest built around extraneous issues. view
• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, today, we start a process with a difference. We start a process where we can sit in this House and say we have seen it all, we have talked the talk and now it is time to walk the walk. view
• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Today, we present to this House, a team of experts that will transform the journey we have had in the past to a purely expert-driven process but with sufficient windows for public participation, including a Referendum and even submission of petitions by members of the public. view
• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in selecting the team that the Chairman has ably submitted to this House, primary focus was on expertise. Therefore, the nine persons that the Committee presents to this House are experts of exceptional qualifications in their various fields of learning. view