Adan Keynan

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 May 2011 in National Assembly: at that time when everybody else was a servant of the status quo must be appreciated. How can we appreciate their efforts? We can do so by being adherents of the rule of law. view
• 5 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, I know that the Minister agrees with that part. I was saying that there should be no reference to the President. We will have to look at it, but that is my opinion. There should be no reference to the Executive. I know my brother here is a fierce loyalist of today’s regime, but that does not take away my right to voice what I want to say. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other bit is--- view
• 5 May 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The other bit that I find unacceptable is the Bill making reference to the use of appropriate technologies and approaches. Which are these appropriate technologies and approaches that we are not being told? The Minister should be clear in this thing. Which are these appropriate technologies and methodologies? He should describe them. He should tell us that they will use this so that a person like me who represents a rural constituency where there is limited communication, knows whether this technology will be suitable to the majority of Kenyans who live in the ... view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on the Familiarisation Visit to Kenyan Mission to the United Nations Offices in Nairobi, laid on the Table of the House on 4th May, 2011. view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Yesterday, this House was taken aback. For the first time in my parliamentary history, a Member of the Front Bench raised the issue of quorum. Ideally, that ought to have come from Members of the Back Bench, but it came from the Government side. Today, the Front Bench is almost empty. With the exception of the able Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, the rest of the Ministers who are supposed to answer Questions listed on the Order Paper are not here. Is it in ... view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what I am trying to demonstrate is this: Those of us who were in the House yesterday afternoon will remember that for the first time in parliamentary history, a Member of the Front Bench stood on a point of order and said that there was no quorum in the House! view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, is it in order for Ministers, who are supposed to be here at exactly 9.00 a.m., to be away and are, therefore, not in a position to answer Questions raised by Members of the Back Bench? view
• 3 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on the familiarisation visit to the Kenyan Embassy in Somalia, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 3rd May, 2011. view
• 3 May 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to take this opportunity, first of all, to thank all my colleagues in particular, the Members of the Budget Committee for their tireless efforts in making sure that Parliament remains an epicenter of change. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Tenth Parliament is on record as having insisted that impunity in all institutions must cease to be the hallmark of the Republic of Kenya. We, as Members of the Tenth Parliament, must be prepared to face institutional reforms. If we go back to what happened in 2007, it is not that the ... view
• 3 May 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for us to succeed in reforms, we must make the rule of law the basis for changing some of the key institutions. Over the last 20 years, since the advent of muti-partyism, the Kenyan public and, in particular, Kenyan leaders have been in the forefront in ensuring that this country has a new constitutional dispensation. That was at a price. We paid dearly. We paid billions that could have gone to developmental projects in 1991. We wasted a lot of time. Many Kenyans lost their lives as a result of their struggle for multi-partyism. May Kenyans ... view