Adan Keynan

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs has had an opportunity to consider and subject the Bill to public participation. Some of the amendments must have been informed by… view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to second. view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Parliamentary Service Commission is one of those constitutional commissions under Chapter 15 of our Constitution. The framers of the current Constitution had in mind Article 127 which, in their wisdom, decided to have a Parliamentary Service Commission, a representative Commission that is supposed to deal with the first arm. I will always say that the first arm of our governance structure is Parliament because that is where the people have bestowed their elective power. view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Being one of the commissioners, we have been subjected to a lot of rumour mongering, regional talks and trivialisation of certain critical aspect of this Bill. I want to put it on record that this Bill did not have any issue in mind. The idea was, and if we did not do this today, we would have been condemned… Under Chapter 15 of the Constitution - and I am glad that, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you are a lawyer - we enacted the National Land Commission Act in 2012, while the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Act was enacted in ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: 2012; the National Police Service Commission Act was enacted in 2014, while the Kenya National Human Rights Commission and the National Gender and Equality Commission Act were enacted in 2012 and 2011 respectively. The Parliamentary Service Commission has been enacted today and yet, this is the deliberative House that is tasked with the passage of this critical Bill. The question is how come we enacted laws concerning other constitutional commissions and aligned them with the current Constitution, but the one concerning Parliament is the last one we are doing today? It is simply because of certain political undertones. These are ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: I thank the Members for their time and support for the Bill. I assure the Members that they will see enhanced and improved service delivery on the part of the Commission, which is chaired by our Hon. Speaker, the able Hon. J. B. Muturi and the other nine commissioners. view
• 3 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Members. view
• 19 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I take this early opportunity to thank the House. Parliament as a deliberative House is a critical arm of any civilized nation. In the old Constitution, budget-making was a preserve of the Executive. But courtesy of the new Constitution, representation, oversight, legislation and budget-making are now in the purview of Parliament. I know there is no substitute for democracy and Parliament, and democracy is expensive. But what, as a country, we must be concerned with is the implementation of Vision 2030 and the Big Four Agenda. Before I delve into that, I ... view
• 19 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: as a premier nation in the region. But we can only continue to enjoy that tag if we are careful because our domain is being raided now. We brag by saying that we are the dominant regional economic hub, dominant regional investment hub, dominant regional security hub, dominant regional humanitarian hub and dominant regional infrastructure hub. These tags are being raided. Look at our GDP. Ten years ago, when I was the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, I had the privilege of accompanying His Excellency President Kenyatta in his foreign ventures. I remember one time ... view
• 19 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: To conclude, the law sometimes is an ass. There are certain things that, as Members of Parliament, we must be very careful about. It is a reality that in the current Constitution, we have two houses. We must avoid, at all times, as Members of Parliament, a situation where we will have perceived jurisdictional conflict between the two Houses. If anything, the two Houses must be prepared to complement the work of the other. If we do not do this, I can assure you our oversight role will completely be impaired. view