Asman Kamama

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1581 to 1590 of 2457.

• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the National Police Service Commission (Amendment) Bill be now read the Third Time. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for granting me the opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill to amend our Constitution as it relates to Article 204. I want to, first of all, thank my good friend and neighbour, hon. Lati Lelelit, Member for Samburu West, for coming up with this very important Amendment Bill. A lot has been said about marginalization. I come from some of the special areas that have been totally marginalized by all the regimes in this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of ... view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: country. My constituency was, I think, number four, before we created the new constituencies. It is number four from South Sudan. I border my good friend, hon. Ngikor. We have Turkana Central and the then former Turkana North. Those areas are totally marginalized. Even during colonial times, we used to be managed by some ordinance called “outlying districts” or “special districts.” You could not come to those parts of the country. My good friend hon. Ngikor can actually admit that some of our people would say you could not go to “Kenya” unless you had a pass. My good friend, ... view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Yes. If you ask hon. Members from that region, they will respond in the affirmative. It is our duty, even being the Chairman of the Committee on Administration and National Security--- view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Yes. How do you describe a region that has no assistant chief, police stations and no presence of--- Anyway, let me continue prosecuting the matter. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Okay! Let me put it in a more juicy way! view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: There is less presence of Government! view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I raised this recently when I had a meeting with all top security officers. I told them that they need to take the Government to those places. I was very categorical. I just want to say that we need to amend this Constitution. Hon. Members, do not fear to amend this Constitution. The American Constitution has been amended many times - I think 25 times by people like Hamilton in Philadelphia. I think it has now been amended 28 times. It has been amended by Jefferson and those other Presidents and famous Americans. So, we need ... view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: cent, a governor bought a house for Kshs.140 million, you get annoyed. There are people there who are living in total squalor, deep penury. I think we are getting it wrong and I think we should have our priorities right. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can see the faces of Members from those marginalized regions, they want to speak like yesterday. I wish to totally support and I want CRA to change its formula. I want hon. Lati to do a lot of lobbying, so that we can change this section and develop the 78 per cent of this country ... view
• 25 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. First of all, I want to agree with your earlier suggestion that it is high time we had strangers addressing this House, especially on sensitive matters like the one of national security. I agree with you on that, and when the time comes, I will support it. On the issue of hon. (Maj-Gen.) Nkaissery, I even shared with him that I have been pursuing this matter with the Cabinet Secretary for the last few days. So, they have just told me that they are waiting for information from the County Commissioner in charge of Kajiado. As ... view