Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 791 to 800 of 1948.

• 4 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: I attempted to capture hon. Mbadi’s excitement. I certainly did not make any effort to take a photograph of the Speaker. Certainly not me, and I do apologize, hon. Speaker. view
• 27 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: I served for six months. view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: THAT, this House adopts the reports of the Public Accounts Committee on the Government of Kenya accounts for the Financial Years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday 19th December, 2012. view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, these are reports that were laid before this House just before the Tenth Parliament dissolved and the rules of this House allow the subsequent House - the 11th Parliament - to proceed and debate them. view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, allow me to draw your attention to two issues. One is the customs, traditions and usages that this House has established. We have always said that this is a House of records in the sense that the history of this House will always guide what goes on in this House at any particular moment. As hon. Millie Odhiambo has so lucidly shared with this House, we have established a tradition in this House, especially the very interesting period that marked the era of the Tenth Parliament, when we were right in the crucible of re-making the very ... view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Therefore, my first point of concern is whether the Chair can let this matter merely pass after we have expressed our sentiments on the same without making a determination. My humble view guided by history and the traditions and customs of this House, is that when such a matter is brought before the Chair, the Chair has no choice, but to make a pronouncement. Therefore, in this matter, it will be important for you either to determine that the matter is frivolous and therefore, of a characterisation that is not worth the intervention of the Chair or that the matter, ... view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Secondly and finally, the CIC has a mandate to preside over the implementation of the Constitution. However, the CIC is not a constitutional court. The CIC does not have the constitutional mandate to render binding opinion on the Constitution. The mandate of the CIC is very limited to preside over the process of implementing the Constitution. This House must be very careful and must proceed with a lot of caution on the kind of weight you attach to any pronouncement or opinion from the CIC. For two reasons, namely, one, the reason I have just stated that the CIC does ... view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Secondly, the CIC has proven to also be very unreliable in certain instances. It has made many pronouncements that are themselves unconstitutional or contradictory. Therefore, I do not believe and I have a lot of respect for the Chairman of the Committee on Administration and National Security, he is my Chair in that Committee because I humbly serve under his very able leadership in that Committee, but he must know that this House is not bound and subject to the opinions of the CIC. You know that when we sit as the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya, we ... view