Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1911 to 1920 of 1923.

• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me also join the other hon. Members in congratulating you and your Deputy Speaker on your election to guide the proceedings of this House. view
• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have a point of order which I shall come to after raising a couple of preliminary issues. First, I do not believe that you are estopped from exercising the authority of your office and you are not estopped in any way from taking judicial notice of certain things that are obvious to the ordinary Kenyans and Members of this House. One of those things that you must take the judicial notice of is the uncertainty with the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) as to who exactly is the President of this country. view
• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have an unprecedented situation where the Chairman of the ECK himself is on record for declaring that he has absolutely no idea who is the President of this Republic. view
• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have it on record where at least five members of the ECK have gone public to declare their uncertainty about the resolve that purported to place the hon. Member for Othaya Constituency, Mr. Mwai Kibaki in the presidency. Therefore, I believe that extra ordinary times call for extra ordinary measures. view
• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: We have never been in a situation where the constitutional order of this country has been usurped and adulterated in the manner that we have witnessed in the recent past. These are extra ordinary times and they call for extra ordinary measures; traditions or no traditions. view
• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to tell the hon. Member for Gichugu Constituency that, the fact that the hon. Member of Parliament for Othaya Constituency usurped the constitutional authority to convene this House does not in any way invalidate our coming here to correct that usurpation! view
• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is not correct for the hon. Member for Gichugu Constituency to equate the uncertainty over the presidency to uncertainty over the election of any hon. Member of the House. We know that the ECK has not raised any question or any doubt on the election of the 207 hon. Members seated in this Chamber right now, while we know clearly that the Commission has raised serious doubts and weighty issues on the validity of the election and swearing in of the hon. Member of Parliament for Othaya; Mr. Mwai Kibaki as President of this country. view
• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is absolutely no reason why the hon. Member of Parliament for Othaya Constituency, should be sworn-in ahead of me if indeed we are supposed to be sworn-in according to the alphabetical order of our names. view
• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, because the very election of the hon. Member of Parliament for Othaya Constituency as the President of this country is in serious doubt, he must be sworn-in as the hon. Member for Othaya Constituency which is number 66 on this list. We are not going to close our eyes to obvious issues. Therefore, I urge you to exercise the full authority of your office and take judicial notice of the obvious that we are not going to deal with political and electoral fraudsters masquerading and exercising illegally the Executive authority of this nation. view
• 15 Jan 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you. view