9 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Hold on! Speak on behalf of those who have no voice to attend the meetings of the councils of elders. Speak on behalf of those who are not able to be in this House. With those many remarks, I congratulate you and ask that you be firm and stand for the hustler nation.
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9 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
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9 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Naibu Spika wa Muda, ninajua ulikuwa unashauriana na Kiongozi wa Walio Wengi kwa hivyo labda hukusikia yale ambayo ndugu yangu, Mheshimiwa Nominee 001, amesema. Amesema kuwa mtoto akichanganyika uzazi awe na baba ambaye ni Mjaluo, mwingine sijui amezaliwa na Mkisii, na mwingine na kabila lingine, hayo ndiyo mambo yanayochangia utumizi wa dawa za kulevya. Sijui ni ushahidi gani alio nao wa kuonyesha kuwa ukichanganya uzazi, utatumia dawa za kulevya kutokana na uzazi ama mambo ya ukabila. Hayo ndiyo mambo tunaomba viongozi kuwa tuwache kuchanganya kila kitu na mambo ya ukabila. Hakuna mtoto ambaye huchagua atazaliwa na baba yupi. Hata Nominee ...
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Without injuncting anybody, the Members who have contributed, the Chair of JLAC, the Chair of the Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC), the Mover and the Seconder have articulated the issues very well and the guidance that you have given to the House is quite timely. I am sure many of us are agreed on this process that there ought to be some guidance on how this process proceeds. I am happy the Leader of the Minority Party has clarified that those who are seeking to promise people additional constituencies in public rallies may not have that ...
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I am sorry. I did not want to interrupt the Chair, but I realised that he may have forgotten something we had agreed he would make a correction on. In the financial recommendations, there is an inconsistency on the financial and policy recommendations on debt financing. I just want to remind him because it is a matter of figures. What we resolve and pass here is what will go into the records. Under Financial Resolution III, he is referring to a net foreign financing of Kshs530 billion and a net domestic financing of Kshs399.9 billion while when we ...
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I can hear the Leader of the Minority Party whispering about wheelbarrownomics. We will teach him about wheelbarrownomics, and how that will change the structure of our economy. Even as I rise to support this BPS, you realise that we are being asked by the Budget and Appropriations Committee to approve a BPS so that by the time we will go into the Annual Estimates, probably, later in April this year, we will have a deficit of about 7.5 per cent. How I wish that this deficit would be reduced to the levels of six to ...
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
I am happy that the Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. John Mbadi, now concedes that indeed they are being listened to. By that, I am sure he meant the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party which he chairs. A Member of that party, Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal, once described a government as the president and the people the president listens to. Therefore, if you want the definition of a government today in line with Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal’s definition, then it is the President and the people he listens to, that is, the people that Hon. John Mbadi is alluding to. Hon. ...
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are all seeking to engage with you because I am not at liberty to do that. I am now dressed up in terms of a mask.
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
The other issue of whether I am being listened to is not relevant to me at this particular point. I want to focus on the issues that I was addressing. Indeed, the Leader of the Minority Party has enumerated the level of our public debt. Today we are being asked to approve further borrowing of Kshs930 billion which is Kshs70 billion shy of Kshs1 trillion. In the past, and I have belaboured the point in many forums, this House is asked every year to approve this BPS with an expectation that the annual estimates will be done in line with ...
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