Benjamin Kipkirui Langat

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to second the Procedural Motion. If you look at the Bills listed on the Order Paper, some of them are just amendment Bills and they have just one or two pages. We have Bills which are big. Even in the House of Commons, those Bills which are small in size, do not pass through the procedures because they have just one or two lines. Therefore, I think even going forward in this House, we need to see Bills which really require going full-length and determining how many hours we should spend on the ... view
• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I start to contribute to this Bill, I would like to send my condolences to the families which lost their loved ones in Embu some weeks ago. The challenge of alcoholism is becoming a national problem. I support this Bill so that we give more powers to NACADA to be able to move across the country and educate our youth on the effects of alcoholism. Our youth are spending many man-hours drinking. It is sad that some of these young men wake up very early when the police are still asleep so that they can ... view
• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was seconding the other Procedural Motion. It affects me. With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 30 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 30 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 30 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker. The Member is using unparliamentary language that there was “a useless meeting”. There is no useless meeting. In fact, he is confirming to us that he cannot even stand to make a decision against the people who sent him. Why was he not present to say no like the many other Members who said no? There are only three options in voting; you can say no, yes, or abstain, but not to be absent. view
• 30 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker. The Member is using unparliamentary language that there was “a useless meeting”. There is no useless meeting. In fact, he is confirming to us that he cannot even stand to make a decision against the people who sent him. Why was he not present to say no like the many other Members who said no? There are only three options in voting; you can say no, yes, or abstain, but not to be absent. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you very much hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. First and foremost, I must say that on Clause 3(7)(c) the Committee noted it had an issue. The solution is not to delete it, the way hon. Mbadi is suggesting. We have reached a compromised position because loans by the Government come in several ways; some of them have to be paid directly. A classic example was when the Government was procuring the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) machines; it was a government to government arrangement, where the government of Canada agreed to fund that transaction; they paid the supplier and we received ... view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you very much hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. First and foremost, I must say that on Clause 3(7)(c) the Committee noted it had an issue. The solution is not to delete it, the way hon. Mbadi is suggesting. We have reached a compromised position because loans by the Government come in several ways; some of them have to be paid directly. A classic example was when the Government was procuring the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) machines; it was a government to government arrangement, where the government of Canada agreed to fund that transaction; they paid the supplier and we received ... view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 3 of the Bill be amended in proposed new subsection (7)- (a) by inserting the words “is a government to government loan and” immediately after the word “loan” appearing in paragraph (c). As I said earlier on, if we allow this direct payment of loans, there could be issues of accountability; my Committee discussed at length how to cure this apparent defect. When we engaged the Treasury and other stakeholders, we agreed that in many of the cases where government to government loans arise, they usually pay the contractors as they supply the services. ... view