Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 351 to 360 of 1948.

• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I am actually waiting for an amendment. I know that I need to catch your eye in advance. It is a couple of steps away. 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
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I have listened to my Chairman in the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security, Hon. Lentoimaga. I was struggling to get the rationale for this amendment especially on a clause that touches on gazetted forest areas. Forests and protection of forests are very sensitive issues in this country. Therefore, it is very important for us to be fully apprised on the rationale for this amendment before we make a decision. I do not want to oppose, but to understand the rationale for the amendment before we pass a verdict. view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I am now even more worried. I oppose the amendment if that is the intention. view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Yes. I believe Hon. Pukose was amplifying the amendment. I saw Hon. Lentoimaga nodding in agreement. I believe that is his position. On a serious note, we must allow the authority responsible for forests certain latitude to make administrative decisions without legislative pressure. I have no doubt, whatsoever, that the kind of utility or use that we are seeking to introduce through this amendment can still be achieved administratively. The moment you legislate on a matter like this one, you open a pandora’s box. We will have a floodgate of litigation. A lot of pressure will be exerted on the ... view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, let us not attempt to belabour the obvious and to overlegislate to an extent where we take a matter that properly falls in the province of administrative decisions and turn them into legislation. How do you give leverage and latitude to institutions mandated to implement the laws that we legislate here if you will legislate in a manner that amounts to emasculating those institutions in the proper discharge of their mandate? This is one amendment that will amount to over-legislation and swimming in an arena that properly falls in the latitude that must belong to an ... view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Let me also hasten to add that legislation such as this one, which a handful of us may want to treat casually, had been abused in the past. The matter of land or forestry in this country cannot be treated casually but with a lot of caution. In respecting the mandate of the institution responsible for forestry, and knowing that there are certain decisions that are more administrative than legislative, I urge this House to reject this amendment. view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I believe we are handling a very grave matter rather casually. We are now starting to trend on dangerous grounds. There must have been some very good reasons and rationale why this land was gazetted. To sit in this Chamber, just the handful of us and attempt to casually reverse these decisions without any empirical study, survey or any other basis, will not be very responsible of us as a legislative Chamber. There are better avenues for the responsible authorities to delve into this matter empirically, in a manner that would avail reasonable and satisfactory basis ... view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Because I still have the microphone, I will add that it is actions such as these in the past that have led to the current scenario where this country, 50 years after Independence, is still struggling to meet the 10 per cent global threshold for forestry. If we continue with this trend, we will drop to a level which is unimaginable. We are going to turn this country into a desert with serious ramifications. Let us save our forests and create a framework where anybody who is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A ... view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: dissatisfied with the situation as it exists can seek other avenues. Saying “Aye” or “Nay” is not sufficient to amend this law in this manner. view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The reason why Kenyans spent too much energy, effort, sweat, blood and limb to give themselves a new constitutional dispensation was to deal with the vexatious troubled issue of land. Right at the heart of both the clamour for a new Constitution and in the process of piecing this new Constitution, I had the privilege to co-Chair the Committee of this House that presided over the political deal for this Constitution. Land was right at the heart of those negotiations. It is important that when this House is handling the enabling legislation to actualise and bring ... view