Anthony Mutahi Kimaru

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. I do not know whether the Report is properly before the House because we do not see any signatures appended as to who were present during that process and whether hon. Members really agreed to the recommendations; whether there was any dissent. The Report that we have in circulation is not signed. Is it properly before this House? view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this very honourable Motion by my friend, hon (Eng.) Gumbo. As my colleagues have said, I wonder where these judges come from. They must be from an area called “utopia”. If they came from any village and had seen what CDF has done, they would not have dared pass that judgment. Secondly, I am left wondering where the Government really was. The Attorney- General himself gave a commentary, or an advisory, that the CDF is unconstitutional. Were we reading from the same script with this very Attorney-General? I have heard ... view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Even if it means going to a referendum to entrench the CDF in the Constitution, I would say that be it. view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: The mwananchi out there will vote. Who has the supreme power which rests with the view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: I am sure mwananchi wherever he is will be for the CDF to be entrenched in the Constitution. I do not know if these very same judges will again say that the Constitution itself is unconstitutional when it comes to that. It would not be too hard to expect that from them, given the way they have gone about making their judgment. These activist judges, I am not afraid to say so, will take this country the wrong way. If we decided to rise, I am sure the sovereign power of the people does not rest with judges. It does ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Indeed, it is painful; it is a shame; it is immoral; it is illegal and even unconstitutional to have children in this country at this time miss out of school and, more importantly, the national schools. As much as we might want to ignore the fact, national schools are important. That is where the top brains of the country meet. They do not only meet to socialize - which is also very important to create national cohesion - but they meet to compete and to have the best opportunities to advance their knowledge. When ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: When we look at the cost of education, let us not delude ourselves that it is just about the principals. No, it is not. In many schools, we do not have teachers. We do not have infrastructure. The Government should provide those. It should subsidize those particular functions to make education affordable. Let us not bury our heads in the sand and keep saying that principals are doing this or that or they are not doing enough. The Government has a responsibility. An amount of Kshs.11 billion is proposed to be allocated to education. Is that enough? I think we ... view
• 2 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important subject on accounts of State corporations. I want to thank the Chairman and hon. Members of the Public Investments Committee (PIC) of this Parliament for tabling this Report. While thanking the Chairman of PIC, I also want to take this opportunity to thank the Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for tabling, this afternoon, three consecutive accounts for the past three financial years. Going by what he said, and being a Member of the Committee, come March, 2015, we will be tabling the accounts for ... view
• 2 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: their wealth. This has not helped either. The Constitution itself provides in Article 226(5) that if somebody presides over misuse of funds, the person should be held liable and should make good the laws, whether he remains in office or not. I want to thank the PIC for naming individuals; naming directors and naming Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of those institutions which have been riddled with corruption. I recommend that institutions like the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) should take up those recommendations by Parliamentary Committees and implement them to the letter so ... view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I think there are two things here that are in contradiction; the Constitution and the right for someone not to be detained for too long. Whereas I can see the difficulty in communicating that information, sometimes Kenya being what it is, some areas are unreachable. In some areas you may not have communication. I do not know whether it is practicable to require that communication be done within 24 hours. I do not know how practicable it is but were it not for the practicability, I would propose 24 hours, but being realistic, I do not ... view