Aden Bare Duale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: While you were away, Hon. Speaker, I was asking a million dollar question. The leadership was summoned to Safari Park in your absence. I was away in my constituency and Hon. Jakoyo was also in his constituency and so we never went. The question was to talk about Hon. Chepkong’a and we realised the matter was so small. Hon. Chepkong’a and his team were just dealing with what they were mandated by this House under your leadership. view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: While you were away, we said the two Co-Chairs, Hon. Kiraitu and Hon. Orengo and Hon. Chepkong’a are friends in the legal fraternity. They are very seasoned Members of Parliament and good leaders. They should have looked for each other within the precincts of Parliament and talked about this matter over a cup of tea or in the bar if some of them take that drink I usually call maji haramu . While you were away, we agreed that any matter concerning IEBC at the HBC on Tuesday this week as you guided us, we set it aside. We have ... view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. He happens to be the Chair but the media was saying Chepkong’a Committee. I am sure you will agree with me Hon. Chepkong’a is one of the most performing, hardworking and good chairs. He is a man who believes in convincing an engagement and you do not talk to him through the media. For those of us who know him, he is not a Member of HBC, but this afternoon I told him if he seconds the Motion, it will give the country and this House a better image. That is why I picked ... view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you have given us very good direction. There are a number of issues. When a Bill is from the Senate, the Leader of the Majority Party or the Leader of the Minority Party is the one who deals with it here. How does a Chair of a Committee take over a Private Member’s Bill of the other House? The Chair needs to withdraw this Bill and then we substitute it next week with a Motion. If the Motion is rejected, we go to mediation. Once we go to mediation, there are certain aspects the Member wants which are ... view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I support this Bill because it is my legislative function as a Member for Garissa Township Constituency. I have been given the powers to amend, reject and agree with the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. The genesis of this Bill is because there is a lacuna in law. In the unlikely event, unfortunately, one commissioner of IEBC passes on or resigns, the law is silent. Parliament will be under obligation. view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, to make it more specific to Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo, we agreed in the HBC in which Hon. Mwadeghu and Hon. Jakoyo sit. Leaders must be very honest. We agreed that all matters and Reports concerning IEBC be stepped aside. We were to debate all Bills, including this one, until the Second Reading for Members to ventilate. As a Member for Garissa Township Constituency, I will not forfeit my right to debate in this House to certain scenarios of being told it is the Joint Select Committee. In fact, in the last three and a half years, Parliament should ... view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: in letter and spirit and the political class cannot play around with it whether you put yourself as a Select Committee or as the National Assembly or as the leadership of political parties. The Constitution must be followed both in letter and spirit. That is why in 2010, the framers of the Constitution decided to insulate certain commissions from interference. This insulation was as a result of the kind of work these commissions do. They would not be very popular with the kind of decisions they are going to give. Commissions and independent offices include the Office of the Director ... view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: What the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee is doing contravenes Article 249(2)(b) of the Constitution. The political class cannot sit in the Selection Panel. When you sit in the Selection Panel, what are you doing? You are not sitting there to have a cup of tea. If they sit on behalf of the Opposition, they will make sure that their members are recruited as commissioners. If you sit on behalf of the Government, you are going to influence decisions. That provision proposed by the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee must be amended. There are many other organisations that can sit ... view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: I want to give the House the benefit. In this year’s Tanzanian elections, the Zanzibar elections were cancelled for the single reason that the five commissioners, two from the Opposition, two from the Government and one independent Chair, differed on the results. The two commissioners from the Government said that the Government won while the two from the Opposition also claimed that the Opposition had won. What happened? The elections were cancelled. You win elections through the votes of the people. Election managers are just like people who are given the mandate to do logistics. They are people in this ... view
• 21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: I was shocked when Hon. Jakoyo said that they had nine million votes against five million. You remember what Mutahi Ngunyi, who coined the words “tyranny of numbers”, said in the last general elections. Let me be on the HANSARD. If you add the votes in the Rift Valley, Central and Mount Kenya regions, you will get more than six million votes. If you want to become the President, you must kneel down before me and ask for my votes. You cannot get my votes through violence or intimidation. You are not a special human being. History is repeating itself. ... view