Adan Keynan

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Report. I request Hon. Nyenze to second the Bill for agreement with the Report of the whole House. view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Parliamentary Society of Kenya Bill, National Assembly Bill No.35 of 2013, be now read a Third Time. I request Hon. Nyenze to second. view
• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, just for general information, any statement made under Standing Order No.84 cannot be interrogated on the Floor of the House, period. One has to look for another opportunity to respond to what the hon. Member said. We need to respect our Standing Orders. Hon. Members will have to look for another platform to respond to the same. Unfortunately, that is the law and the law is an ass. view
• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Bill (National Assembly Bill No.35 of 2014) be now read a Second Time. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this House and I plead with my colleagues to listen to me in silence. It is not Hon. Keynan’s Bill. This Bill has been prepared and generated by the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) as part of our mandate of being a welfare Commission. 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
• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, if you look at the provisions of Article 127, one of the functions of the Commission is to provide services and undertake other activities that are tailor made for the benefit of Members. What has informed this? For those of you who have had an opportunity to listen to both the print and electronic media, there is one former Member of Parliament called Hon. Gor Sungu, who has been taken to court. May be I will give out the details later. view
• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Today, or in the next few weeks or so, unless maybe something drastic happens, he going to serve a civil jail term. Initially, when someone took him to the High Court, I think the award was Kshs3 million. He went to the Court of Appeal and it went to the highest court. Today he is expected to pay Kshs10 million. Plus interest, I think, it will be about Kshs30 million for utterances he made within the precincts of Parliament. Therefore, because all of us are vulnerable, we felt as a Commission that taking into account the provisions of Article 117, ... view
• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: I felt I should clarify because I do not want someone to mistake me - I want members of the Fourth Estate to hear that it is not Hon. Keynan’s Bill. It is a Bill generated by the PSC for the welfare of Members of Parliament who include the Senate. view
• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Before I go to the contents of this Bill, I want also to go on record that members of the Fourth Estate, both the media practitioners and the media owners, have petitioned me as the Mover of the Bill and also the Chair of the PSC, who is also the Speaker of the National Assembly. I want to assure them that the suggestions they have made, in particular on enforcement, publication and broadcasting of certain parliamentary materials are worth considering. We will look at it at the right stage when we will be looking at the different provisions of this ... view
• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Having said that, I want to take this opportunity to move this Bill. In Part I, the preliminary, we have defined terms. Maybe before I say this, we have an Cap.6 of the Laws of Kenya called the “Powers and Privileges Act” of the National Assembly. In essence, that Act has become obsolete or redundant after the promulgation of the new Constitution, because it is anchored on a unicameral House. We have a bicameral House, which means we have two Houses. Therefore, that Act was to be amended after the promulgation of the new Constitution. Since this did not happen, ... view
• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: The first part is the definitions; it is the preliminary. We have defined the Bill as “the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Bill of 2014”. It defines committee. 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