Amos Wako

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 571 to 580 of 1138.

• 7 Sep 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not imputing any ill motive on Sen. Khaniri. I said the leadership of the House ought to have consulted a little bit more on this issue so that it would not have been necessary to have this Motion. view
• 7 Sep 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, holy things are not a two-way traffic; they are normally in trinity. What is the third one? view
• 24 Aug 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in view of the Motion that was passed that we sit until we finalize the business which is on the Order Paper, we should go into that business. We know that we have now taken a vote on delegations of 25 Members on the Motions that have been passed. We now know that the Nominated Members, not all of them are here. They may be about seven. If you add to that, it comes to about 32 Members. That is nowhere near the threshold required for a constitutional amendment which takes into account not just the ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in view of the Motion that was passed that we sit until we finalize the business which is on the Order Paper, we should go into that business. We know that we have now taken a vote on delegations of 25 Members on the Motions that have been passed. We now know that the Nominated Members, not all of them are here. They may be about seven. If you add to that, it comes to about 32 Members. That is nowhere near the threshold required for a constitutional amendment which takes into account not just the ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. This is a very important document. We entrusted very senior people who have been in the struggle for a long time who qualify to be legal luminaries to come up with this document. Members of this Joint Committee should not be given priority over people who are not Members of the Committee. They should take a back seat a bit and listen to Members who are not Members of the Committee. They know what is in the report. They have been involved. We do not have to be briefed for too ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. This is a very important document. We entrusted very senior people who have been in the struggle for a long time who qualify to be legal luminaries to come up with this document. Members of this Joint Committee should not be given priority over people who are not Members of the Committee. They should take a back seat a bit and listen to Members who are not Members of the Committee. They know what is in the report. They have been involved. We do not have to be briefed for too ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is only right that the leadership of the Senate, the senior people who we appointed to this Committee should also listen to the Senator who was not there. We voted and elected them because of their qualities, and we hoped we were also electing them because of their humility. In that humility, they should also listen to us. I will not take long because I have absolute confidence in the people we appointed to the Committee. This is our Committee, fairly selected, equally represented The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is only right that the leadership of the Senate, the senior people who we appointed to this Committee should also listen to the Senator who was not there. We voted and elected them because of their qualities, and we hoped we were also electing them because of their humility. In that humility, they should also listen to us. I will not take long because I have absolute confidence in the people we appointed to the Committee. This is our Committee, fairly selected, equally represented The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much. That has taken three or four minutes. Please add me time. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much. That has taken three or four minutes. Please add me time. view