Amos Wako

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: managed to catch their eyes. I can say that we caught the eye of Tom Mboya and Mwai Kibaki. At that time, we were in Form Three at Alliance High School. We engaged in discussions and I was very impressed that they took in some of our ideas. They thought that they were ideas worth following within KANU. The idea that although you have a KANU youth wing, which is supposed to maintain order and so on, we should also have an aspect of youth who are educated up to Form Four level at that time, which was quite something ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: He knew that even though I had not been making noise outside, within Government I was one of the reformers. He assured me in the presence of his wife, Mr. Kereri and Mr. Stanley Murage, when he was on his bed, that when he takes over as President, he would keep me as the Attorney General. However, you always doubt the word of a politician, particularly around that time that ‘ hii ni kusema tu,’ but when time comes, they would let you go. I began to make preparations to leave government. I was elected by the General Assembly to ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: went through the process as constitutionally required. Another President would not have done that; he would have said that is final. However, when the late President Mwai Kibaki realized that what he had done was unconstitutional, he revoked the appointments and allowed due constitutional process to take place. That is President Kibaki’s commitment to the rule of law and governance. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the late President Mwai Kibaki’s commitment to the Constitution, constitutionalism and a new Constitution is well founded. In ordinary times, Kenya would have had a new Constitution. In fact, this is what I had been fighting for ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: Just to show that he was a man who had a strict adherence to the rule of law, sometimes a decision would be made when I was out of the country and my people that I left behind would be asked to give an opinion by officials of the Government. Whenever they went to Mwai Kibaki and said they had a legal opinion from the office of the Attorney-General. He would always ask whether the Attorney-General Amos Wako was there when that opinion was given. Was he party to this opinion? If they said no, he was out of the ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: settled out of court and that means a bit of payment out of court. I was a bit stubborn there, but somehow they managed to get their way to the President. One day I was summoned to go to the State House. The President called me and said please come to the State House immediately if you can. There I met all these people with senior people in Government who said that claim must be settled. Therefore, I told the President that it should be settled, but I would like Kenya to be given an opportunity to argue before an ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: I have talked about regional integrity and corruption. Mwai Kibaki was a humble person whom you could easily mistake for not hearing what you said sometimes. You could also assume he did not know what was going on around him. At the time when he and Raila signed the agreement, which resulted to the Grand Coalition Government, I noticed that he was very much aware. To show that he could make decisions and be firm, I can tell you for sure that most members of his Cabinet had sworn that that agreement should not be underpinned by a constitutional amendment. ... view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: Give me one minute. view
• 27 Apr 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I remember him telling me and others that the worth of a country is measured by how it treats the lonely people in the community. That is why he asked his Vice President to find out how the prisoners were being treated. He also had his views on privatization of corporations, particularly Mumias Sugar Company Limited and others. He argued that the people to buy those shares should not be people from outside a certain region. It should be people or farmers from those areas who should buy shares in the corporations and not people ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to make my contribution to the very detailed Presidential Address given two days ago. I commend H.E. the President for the excellent Address that he gave on the State of the nation. He gave a detailed brief on what his Government has done yearly in the past eight years. From the various statics given in various areas of economic development, one can see that the achievement has been great. It has been great to the extent that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has multiplied by a factor of two plus from Kshs4.74 ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: and next Government will focus more and appropriately to reforming the sugar industry. Many people in western and coastal regions depend on this industry. Mr. Speaker, Sir, these major developments have come at a cost, particularly in the infrastructural developments. I believe that the Uhuru Government will be seen to have contributed in a very transformative way to the infrastructure of this country. view