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Entries 7001 to 7010 of 17810.
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
But today, if any of us loses an election in a by-election, the PSC will the next day come and sell your property. Even in the private sector and Government, there is a procedure in which you negotiate for mortgage. It is not five years. I can pay my mortgage. I can take Kshs50 million and pay my mortgage over seven years. Why should it be pegged to the five years if the Member can pay or his bank can show? So, the mortgage facility must be relooked at on the aspect of paying within five years. It is not ...
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
If these members are approved, they have a lot of work to do. Administrative matters including staff recruitment, deployment and promotions have been pending for the last one year and a half. We must stop the culture that it is a place to bring your next of kin to come and work in Parliament when you become a commissioner of the PSC. We will not accept that. In fact, we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
need to do an audit of the staff of Parliament in terms of constituencies and counties. We must do it so that we know whether Parliament which stands for equity is practising equity.
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
So, Hon. Speaker, as our leader and Chairman of the PSC, you must protect it. It is not going to be business as usual. This PSC must change. It is not going to be a PSC where 10 per cent of staff working in Parliament comes from your county, from your clan or tribe. You are holding that position on our behalf. We either share the cake in a competitive way or …. Let us allow Parliament to employ the best of the best. We have the best men from the State Law Office in our Legal Department and Budget ...
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
If you are the Chair of the Welfare Committee of the PSC, it is your business to go to the gym and check whether those machines are working. It is not that we appoint you a member of the Commission and then it is the last day we see you. The next time we see you is the beginning of another Parliament when you want us to renew your contract. We want value for our votes. Today, we are voting; we want value for these votes. If you do not want to work for us, we will not give you ...
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
respected by the members of staff of Parliament, you must show respect and defend the space between you and them. How do you relate to people in the human resource services? Parliament is a small enclave. The world outside is big. There are many things you can get outside. Let us respect ourselves. I am talking from experience. I will give an example. At the Members’ Lounge there is a sign board that says, “Sitting Members of Parliament Only”. Yesterday, I found a Member of Parliament with five people. I asked him, “What is wrong with you? Can you not ...
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
With him or her.
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
When morning breaks, the member of staff would still be sleeping and so would be the Member of Parliament. There would be nobody to prepare the room! I am sure chairpersons of committees and Members agree with me. I am not saying these things because I just want to say them. It is the truth. The members of staff will respect you only when they know that a Member of Parliament is watching them. The Commission is supposed to prepare estimates of expenditure. We agreed on this with the Liaison Office. They are the Budget-makers of Parliament. In my opinion, ...
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
will not be business as usual. We will collect signatures for your removal and we will ask the President to form a tribunal to remove you. You either work for us or you go home. I have said a lot. I want to leave the rest for my colleague, the Leader of the Minority Party. I, therefore, beg to move and ask Hon. Mbadi to second. Hon. Mbadi, given the way I have spoken, you must also put these four great men and women we are nominating to task. Indeed, they are up to the task, but it will not ...
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22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I want to confirm to my friend, Hon. Otiende Amollo. You might be an astute lawyer out there but when we are here, we are all lawmakers. This is a unique Commission. I will give him five reasons why this Commission is unique. All commissions, under the Constitution have selection panels provided for in the Act. The process of recruiting commissioners is set up in specific selection panels. After they are selected, the names are submitted to the President and the President sends the names to this House. The respective committees do due diligence through vetting. They can ...
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