Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 251 to 260 of 1948.

• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for granting my point of order. Listening to the brilliant Member for Kilifi County, my sister Aisha, I am wondering whether this is a competition of the genders or a partnership of the genders as we seek to have this important Bill enacted and also as we seek to ensure that we provide a platform to more equalised and provide better opportunities for the female gender to have greater representation. Hon. Speaker, if our colleagues, the fair gender want to turn this into some kind of contest, then it can only be a disadvantage ... view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is a very serious matter that has been ably explained by my brother, Hon. Odanga. The question of land has raised many serious issues in the county of Busia. It will be important for you to give a bit of guidance because this matter was raised over a year ago. Of course it does not matter whether the holder of the office of the CS in the Ministry of Lands has changed or not. That is immaterial because the Government does not stop functioning merely by reason of change of personnel at the head of the ... view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I had made my contribution on the Nasewa land issue but not on the Committee on Implementation. I have heard the insinuation that we do not have sufficient rules, and that we have to revise our Standing Orders. A member of a Committee is saying that they need to be given greater capacity. That ought not to be allowed to be on the record of this House because then it presupposes that we do not have sufficient tools and yet we have them. How are we deploying those tools and enforcing the rules that we have already ... view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Let me just remind Hon. Members that before the coming into being of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, this House did not have sufficient wherewithal or tools to effectively implement its decisions or to effect its wishes. Article 125 of the Constitution has given this House and its Committees powers similar to those of the High Court. We can summon witnesses, order people to come and testify or give information and produce documents. Those are powers this House and its committees never had before. Article 124 of the Constitution made Committees and Standing Orders of this House a matter of ... view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Without belabouring this point, the point I am making is that we have the tools and constitutional basis. All we need to do is to deploy them effectively. We want to see the Committee on Implementation come to this House with a list of shame. It should name and shame serial violators of resolutions of this House. They should make it a seasonal, sessional or annual ritual of this House that you will come here and read to us a list of shame. Make it an arrangement where the Committee on Implementation can influence the budgeting process so that departments ... view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I submit with respect. view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Finally, it is so good to sit in this House and say we are ready to join the global premier league in terms of taking substantive measures to take better care of our environment. This law has been quite long in coming. It is a law that we had occasion to debate in the 10th Parliament. It went to the President for assent but it was not assented to. We are now concluding this journey. Of course, I applaud my brother, the Member for Emuhaya, Hon. Ottichilo. He has distinguished himself as a true champion of care for our environment. ... view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: It is very important that this House adopts the amendment that retains the presence of the civil society and appreciates their historic contribution. It gives them a platform to play a prominent role in the implementation of this Bill. Clause 32 is also significant in the sense that it affords the Environmental Court the latitude to deal with penalties, especially in a scenario where it will be dealing with both natural persons and corporate or what you may want to call “artificial persons”. We want to allow this court to a fine of Kshs10,000 in some instances and give the ... view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. This Motion is innovative, timely and historic. Proposing every single Thursday of each month as a day when each one of us as individuals, households, schools, groups and institutions will set aside time to make the environment our primary concern by cleaning, celebrating and talking about the environment is a good move. We need to make places where we live and work friendlier and healthier. This is, indeed, a constitutional imperative and I want to commend my brother, Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo, for the fore-sightedness on matters of environment. Earlier this morning, we enacted a Bill ... view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: years ago, while on a visit to Germany, I was pleasantly surprised to notice that all the trees in the prefecture of Berlin have been allocated a serial number, just like the way we do a census to determine the number of people we shall budget for. They have a tree census to count the number of trees in Berlin City. For you to bring down a tree in your compound or your piece of land, you need to make an application to a tribunal that would then hear you defend the action of felling a tree in your compound. ... view