Benard Masaka Shinali

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, there is a rise in insecurity in former Western Province. I hope this matter will be taken seriously because they are using those police uniforms at night to masquerade as security agents. view
• 5 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order No.44(2)(c), I wish to request a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology regarding the release of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E) certificates held by schools to affected students. view
• 5 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I will attend the meeting because this is a hot issue even in our constituencies. We are making statements but headteachers are asking for official communication from the Executive, so that they can start giving out the certificates. view
• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I rise to support this amendment. The quorum of six members from nine members is very high. Even in this House it is difficult to raise two-thirds. This is two-thirds of nine members. I would like the quorum to be reduced to five members with a mandatory of a member from the National Police Service. Otherwise, I sincerely feel the Commission cannot run, if we have to put the quorum at six. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Deputy Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order 44(2)(c), I wish to request a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare regarding continued delay in payment of National Social Security Fund (NSSF) benefits to retirees. Many retirees upon attaining 60 years of age are allowed to receive the funds, but they are finding it difficult to access their hard earned NSSF savings. Most have had to spend a lot of money in back and forth travel to NSSF Headquarters in Nairobi and regional offices to pursue their payments. In the Statement, the Chairperson ... view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have two issues to raise on this Bill. One is Clause 7 which deals with quorum. The commission consists of nine Commissioners and the quorum is given as two-thirds. If we said that we needed two- thirds to conduct any business in this House, right now we could not be conducting our business here. The clause goes ahead and says that we must have two uniformed officers in the commission to attain quorum. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Inspector General and his two deputies will at one time have one decision already made. For this ... view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: mandatory. We should then pick one of the retired police officers who are already in the commission. I also feel that there is a problem if we increase the number of Commissioners from five to six. We need to reduce the number of Commissioner to five. I would also like to look at the appointment of the Inspector General which my able Chairman has already talked about. The appointment of the Inspector General brings in the Public Service Commission (PSC) as the people who should constitute a committee that will sit for the first time to vet the Inspector General. ... view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am quoting The Police Service- -- view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am commenting on this Bill because it has been commented on here. view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you for that ruling, hon. Temporary Deputy speaker. I will stick to the issue of quorum. By putting such a high threshold on forming the quorum, we want to crowd the operations of the commission. If you will be asking the Police Service, at any time, to remove two of its top officers to go and sit on a commission, which is permanent, we are simply saying that the police will also have problems. view