Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I cannot agree more with senior counsel, Hon. Olago Aluoch, specifically on the question of separation of powers and the supremacy of this House. There are also constitutional issues, especially those that are contained in Article 145 of the Constitution, that clearly spell out in the Constitution a procedure for the removal of even the President who is elected by millions of Kenyans. Those provisions were put in the Constitution by the framers of this Constitution just the same way they put Article 251 on the removal from office of State officers whether in independent offices ... view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: on Finance, Planning and Trade. Coincidentally, it is the Committee that ought to be overseeing the office of the Attorney-General and even allocating budgets to that office. We would want to know whether--- view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Sorry, Auditor-General. You know the acronym for both offices is AG. I am talking about the Office of the Auditor-General. Thank you for that correction. I was saying you should be able to guide this House whether that conservatory order then also gags the entire Assembly; whether we cannot consider that Petition as a House, or even before another Committee, say, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs chaired by Hon. Chepkong’a. The other question is on our own Standing Orders. The Constitution, again, gives this House powers to draft its own rules and procedures on how to conduct ... view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Report here. That Report can recommend the setting up of a tribunal that will again go into further details to interrogate the issues in the Petition. Therefore I wonder what this rush is for. Either powers in the Judiciary want to protect the Office of the Auditor-General or what is this fear that the Auditor-General has to even attempt to stop a process in this House that also allows him an opportunity to be heard? I saw him sometimes back appear before the Committee. I am sure he has been given the opportunity to also defend himself before that Committee ... view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to close by submitting that you as the Speaker of this House must jealously guard the powers that have been conferred by the Constitution to this House. If we do not do that, we can as well allow Justice Mwita and Justice Odunga to come tomorrow and conduct business in Parliamentary committees and this House. With that, I beg that you consider those very weighty matters and protect the integrity and powers bestowed to this House by the Constitution by giving direction on the issues that have been raised by the Chair. view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you know Hon. Manson Nyamweya came to the Chamber a little late. As the Leader of the Majority Party has alluded, we are now degenerating this very crucial debate about the independence of this House vis-a-vis interference by other arms of the Government, and he was very clear on whether it is from the Presidency, Executive or Judiciary. Hon. Nyamweya is now belittling this very crucial debate to become a matter of defending his kin in the Judiciary. Look beyond your kin and look at the substance of the issue which was raised by the Chair of the ... view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I appreciate your consideration of the earlier point of order raised by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. On a related issue, it is unfortunate Hon. Keynan, my Chairman of the Public Investments Committee (PIC) and also a commissioner, has left the Chamber. Sometime last year, Hon. Keynan attempted to bring a Motion for the appointment of an audit firm to audit the Office of the Auditor-General in line with Article 226(4) of the Constitution. That Motion was immediately withdrawn amidst reservations some of us had on that particular day. I ... view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: What happened last year is that the Commission, which unfortunately you chair, appointed an auditor to audit the Office of the Auditor-General. Despite the reservations, the Constitution does not give that mandate to any other body, not even the Parliamentary Service Commission which has outsiders sitting in it. I think the Parliamentary Service Commission has two or three commissioners who are not Members of the National Assembly. The Constitution specifically gives that mandate to the National Assembly. Since the withdrawal of that Motion, we expected that there would be directions to immediately commence the appointment of an auditor to audit ... view