Amos Wako

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 May 2021 in Senate: I have been touring Uganda in the past, slightly over 14 days. We canvassed the whole of Uganda and went to various towns, including Kabale, Mbarara, Lira, Soroti, Gulu and Arua in the north, Kampala and many others, soliciting people’s views on how they would like the confederation to be and what it should provide. We heard supportive statements from everybody. view
• 6 May 2021 in Senate: They said they wanted the federation like yesterday, but it is we, leaders, who are frustrating them. When you talk about a people’s initiative, that is what it is all about. The people of the East African region support the political confederation as a transition to political federation. They support that and it has been confirmed. view
• 6 May 2021 in Senate: We visited Burundi and last week we were in Uganda. We shall visit Rwanda, South Sudan, Kenya and United Republic of Tanzania. The views we are getting are more or less the same. When I say “we” it is the Committee of Experts appointed by heads of state of East Africa to look into this issue. I thank the President for appointing me to represent Kenya together with Mr. Kiguta, who for ten years, was the Director-General of the East African Customs Management. Together, we represent Kenya on that particular Committee. That is what we are doing. I am happy ... view
• 6 May 2021 in Senate: revolution in any country. Therefore, unless we have an economic revolution to correct this, our future could be at stake as a country. It can provide the instability and breakdown in the social fabric and economic unity of Kenya, as we know it today. Madam Deputy Speaker, I recommend and support Clause 3 (11) (a), which proposes economic and shared prosperity. On the issue of shared prosperity, the Chair of that Committee in BBI has now become the Senator of Machakos. Therefore, I ask her to support this Bill. It is stated under economic and shared prosperity, which emanates from ... view
• 6 May 2021 in Senate: Clause 11(a) is on economic and shared prosperity and a number of things have been stated, which will lead us to that. However, one of the things is that any economic system shall support the small and micro enterprises, mama mboga and the rest. Therefore, BBI was there before people begun to promote the bottom-up approach. We recommended it. The problem with this country is that people do not read what is in the document. They come up with other ideas without realizing that they are already there. On one hand, you read that another person is opposing the document, ... view
• 6 May 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other thing that people have not talked about in this Bill, which I support, is a whole chapter under Clause 4, on responsibilities of a citizen. This Constitution recognizes the responsibilities of a citizen as key to building a prosperous, fair and secure nation. In those responsibilities of a citizen, one of the duties is to practice ethical conduct and combat corruption. One of the two evils that we have in our society is negative ethnicity and corruption. It is now clearly stated in our proposals under this constitutional Bill that every citizen must practice ethical ... view
• 6 May 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to submit on this Bill. I was not here when Senators spoke for ten to 15 minutes. As I explained, I was out of the country on an important mission. view
• 6 May 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for your understanding. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 6 May 2021 in Senate: On the issue of corruption, we have stated under Clause Six that there should be an effective and expeditious investigation, prosecution and trial of cases relating to this Chapter. This is the chapter that deals with national values. We have seen many cases come, and two years down the line, we forget about them. Elections come and the people involved in those corruption deals stand and use that money to destabilize you in your Constituency and so on. Now, as a constitutional principle, investigations and prosecution relating to corruption and offences under that Chapter, should be expedited. Therefore, it will ... view
• 6 May 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, the ombudsman is a good institution, although he should have been appointed by the Chief Justice and prepared to go with it in view of the amendments that have been made on it, under the current Constitution. Had the original formulation remained, I would have been here to totally oppose it. They have now softened it kidogo . Let us hope it will work and that he will now go through JSC, who will make a determination about it. We have the extra constituencies. According to the report that was received, there are a number of counties ... view