6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The Statistics (Amendment) Bill has come at a good time when the country is expected to conduct its census that is done once in every 10 years. I want to be on record that, generally, I support the Bill although there are specific areas in the Bill that must be attended to during the Committee of the whole House stage. We will push for that to happen. The population of Kenya is counted every 10 years with the assumption that the population growth will be at the same rate. Since the dynamics and situations in ...
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The Statistics (Amendment) Bill has come at a good time when the country is expected to conduct its census that is done once in every 10 years. I want to be on record that, generally, I support the Bill although there are specific areas in the Bill that must be attended to during the Committee of the whole House stage. We will push for that to happen. The population of Kenya is counted every 10 years with the assumption that the population growth will be at the same rate. Since the dynamics and situations in ...
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We live in a country that has a liberalised free economy where as long as the businesses you do are legal and you do them within the law, you cannot be forced to do them how certain 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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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We live in a country that has a liberalised free economy where as long as the businesses you do are legal and you do them within the law, you cannot be forced to do them how certain 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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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
people want. What is coming out now is that very soon, Members of Parliament will be asked to use “X” or whatever commuter systems to come to Parliament. They will be told: “Do not go to restaurant A, go to restaurant B” because of businesses, maybe, belonging to influential people. We must say the truth. Kenya over-borrowed to construct the SGR, which cost four times the cost the Ethiopian Government used to construct an electronic railway system which is much faster than what we have. Kenyans were not consulted on what means of transport they want to use from the ...
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
people want. What is coming out now is that very soon, Members of Parliament will be asked to use “X” or whatever commuter systems to come to Parliament. They will be told: “Do not go to restaurant A, go to restaurant B” because of businesses, maybe, belonging to influential people. We must say the truth. Kenya over-borrowed to construct the SGR, which cost four times the cost the Ethiopian Government used to construct an electronic railway system which is much faster than what we have. Kenyans were not consulted on what means of transport they want to use from the ...
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1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The biggest challenge that committees in this House are facing is from Cabinet Secretaries. The Standing 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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1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Orders recognise officers in the rank of Principal Secretary. However, I do not know whether the Cabinet Secretary can be said to be above a Principal Secretary because they are not recognised in law. The ruling would have been firmer in such a sense that it can only be a Cabinet Secretary or a Principal Secretary. The mess we have today is that we have people who are not recognised by law and they always appear on behalf of Cabinet Secretaries and they do not have the required facts.
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1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
We are only saying that the ruling should be very strict.
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26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are supposed to have a paperless Parliament where all orders of the day are displayed on the screens. What is being discussed is not available. We cannot access it. Either we have the papers or we go electronic. We have nothing in between.
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