Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 291 to 300 of 1948.

• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: No. I would just insist that the Hon. Member either substantiates that, indeed, we take things that rank our sobriety on her scale or otherwise she withdraws the insinuation. view
• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I am not seeking to be declared the soberest of the sober because I believe that we are all sober. All Hon. Members of this House are very sober. view
• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: We are a House of traditions, customs and rules. The custom here is that if you withdraw, you apologise. She had apologised really even though on a lighter note. The House certainly needed some comic relief because the debate was becoming a little dull. view
• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, of course, I will be done in a couple of minutes. This is a fantastic Motion. We need to make our care for the environment go beyond the casual. I respect the religious reasons given by my learned sister, Hon. Millie. Besides the very good religious reasons that we need to honour the day that is set aside as Sabbath for a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: considerable portion of the populous, we also need to mainstream this to become part of our serious business as a nation. Weekends are normally rest days. So, we do casual stuff. By setting aside a working day, it will send the very clear message that this is part of the serious business we take on as citizens of this country. It is, therefore, good to allow this amendment, so that the Government and all of us will know that on a Friday, a working day, we would set aside a couple of hours to do this work. view
• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I second this amendment. view
• 29 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, now that we are held in abeyance, it would do no harm to put on record a support for the Report. The spirit in Article 113 of the Constitution about mediation, which was intended to ensure harmony between the Senate and the National Assembly in the process of legislation, warrants that. Previously, we have had challenges in ensuring that the two Houses operate the process of legislation harmoniously. It is good to acknowledge that we have largely overcome a lot of the teething challenges between the two Chambers. One hopes that moving forward, as we head towards the ... view
• 29 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: that the Committee can sit together and find common ground between the two Chambers of the House. I support this Report. view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Even as we favourably consider the request for extension, the justification or rationale cannot be that the extension of the term of this Board will not occasion any further cost to the taxpayer. That cannot be the primary consideration that this House looks at. This House must look at the value addition, the fulfilment of the mandate and expectation that Kenyans had when we put this Board in place. You will recall that the radical surgery of 2003 was in itself motivated by a history of what you may call the trust deficit in the Judiciary. ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: exercise concludes, the trust Kenyans have in the Judiciary, judicial officers, magistrates and judges will be higher than it was at the beginning of the vetting exercise. Hon. Speaker, I am an officer of the court as you are yourself. As an officer of the court, I appear in court once in a while. I can confirm that the challenges we have experienced before remain to a very large extent. We should give this Board an extension so that it can conclude its responsibility. We should also scrutinise its performance. My colleague from Ol Jorok Constituency, Hon. Waiganjo was wondering ... view