Aden Sugow

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Chair and the House, in general, for the successes we have achieved, although it may not be to the expectation of Kenyans--- view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is unfortunate that one constituency will still have to wait longer to get a replacement of their Member of Parliament. This is because of our bungled process of putting in place the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC). view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one problem this House has been having since we started capacity building and more powers to make decisions for this nation, Kenyans who have to be approved by this House in order to assume public offices are subjected to a lot of scrutiny. This scrutiny sometimes damages the reputation of members of the public. If we go in that direction, reputable individuals in this country will not apply for important offices that we want them to occupy. Therefore, I urge my colleagues to tone down when contributing to debates that touch on vetting of individual ... view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is no need to mention individuals who are not in this House and malign them. They cannot take us to court because of the immunity that we have. Even if they have problems, I think there are better ways to put them across to ensure that there is a bit of respect for those individuals who cannot defend themselves on the Floor of this House. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think we need to strengthen our institutions instead of debating who assumes those offices. We need to put in place a framework to ensure that there are checks and balances in our institutions instead of denying Kenyans who are, otherwise, qualified, to assume offices. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not right to put somebody in a public office because I feel that, that is the right person for me. Tomorrow, if I go, whoever succeeds me would want to have his or her person there as well! It is a vicious cycle. We must put in place measures to ensure that there are checks and balances and any qualified Kenyans, regardless of political affiliation, can occupy an office and be accountable to all Kenyans. This should be done instead of juggling Fe bruary 24, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view
• 18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I indicated last week when I started my response, the Motion is pertinent. However, currently, the Public Service does not have policies or legal statutes that relax the requirement for Kenyans from the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) to be given waivers on the minimum qualifications during recruitment. view
• 18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: The policies and legal statutes in place, namely, the Employment Act, 2007, the Public Service commission Act, Cap.185 among others, provide for equal opportunities to be accorded to all Kenyans during recruitment to any position in the Public Service. That is what is causing the current disparity because of the varying standards of education and development in the country. To correct this anomaly, the Government is at an advanced stage in preparing a district-based recruitment policy. In the new policy, the filling of vacant posts for lower cadre personnel in Job Groups "A" to "F", namely, drivers, messengers, cleaners, clerical ... view
• 18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: As I had earlier indicated, currently, where vacancies in various levels in most of the Ministries arise, especially in this particular cadre, they ask for authority from the Ministry to recruit, without necessarily specifying where those vacancies have arisen. Once we adopt this particular policy, we will require Ministries to state if, for example, there are 6 or 100 positions for clerical jobs, to specify where these vacancies are. They should specify in which area, district or province these vacancies are, so that we give priority on the basis of where those vacancies have arisen and recruitment should take place ... view
• 18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this requires Cabinet approval and a Cabinet Paper or Memorandum is now ready. We had to work a lot, especially on the last bit of my submission here, where we indicated that we may have to put in place some training kind of policy or programme for those who do not qualify. This measure is going to be only temporary as far as we are concerned. This is because we expect standards of development and education - which is the underlying problem in this area - to be addressed both by the Government and leaders coming ... view