Benjamin Jomo Washiali

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 741 to 750 of 1882.

• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On behalf of the people of Mumias East, who I represent in this House, and on behalf of Members of this Parliament, may I congratulate you on your well-deserved election as the Chair of the Executive Committee (EXCO) of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association-Africa (CPA-Africa). view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: As the Speaker of this House, you have enforced uncompromised adherence to the Constitution and the Standing Orders in the management of the business of this House. The Constitution is just eight years and one day old. It was only yesterday that it was eight years old. I have no doubt that you will provide leadership and direction to the EXCO in the position that you have been elected to hold. If you allow me to add, CPA has been the voice of parliamentary democracy across the Commonwealth for more than nine decades. It speaks for the rights of parliaments ... view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On behalf of the Leader of the Majority Party and the House Business Committee (HBC), I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 30(3)(b), this House resolves to hold a Morning Sitting on Thursday, August 30 2018, commencing at 9.30 am for purposes of considering priority business ahead of the recess. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this is a straight-forward Motion. As per the Calendar of this House which was approved in this House, the House is scheduled to proceed on a long recess commencing this Thursday, 30th August 2018. In this regard, the HBC agreed that the House should sit on Thursday morning to conclude all urgent pending business before it. The HBC is actually on record to only request for these extra sittings when there is very serious business. In this case, we have pending Bills like the Finance Bill which was just moved and seconded. I think there is only just ... view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Also, there is the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, which is meant to go to the Committee of the whole House. We also have regulations by the Select Committee on Delegated Legislation among others. It is important to note that the Finance Bill and the regulations have statutory timelines which ought to be met before we go on recess. The Sitting is scheduled to begin at 9.30 a.m. I, therefore, urge Members to keep time to avoid quorum hitches that become a challenge to such sittings. Since this was agreed in the HBC, I beg to move and request the ... view
• 23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. From the outset, I rise to support this Motion and quickly add that this is a straight forward Motion that I would request Members to support. For those who may think otherwise, I want to quickly say that from the experience I have had in this House – just like my colleague, Hon. Katoo ole Metito said that he had four straight terms – I also want to declare here and now that I have had three straight terms courtesy of the people of Mumias. From that experience, I could easily tell Members who could be ... view
• 23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: have had, I think it is important that we quickly agree with them so that we can benefit maximum from the sittings of this House. I thank the Mover because while moving, he commented that this will increase the participation of this House. However, from the whip’s desk, I thank Members of this House for being proactive and sensitive. Whenever we had an issue with quorum and I went out there to whip them, I confirm to you, Hon. Speaker, that they have always been willing to come in and participate in the proceedings of this House. Therefore, I take ... view
• 23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Therefore, the office of the whip is very important. We need to establish it in the Standing Orders, so that we do not hang in the air. My counterpart on the other side is even imagining that we can easily amend the Constitution to include the office of the whip. Going forward, we may also consider that. Otherwise, these are good amendments. I support them and urge my colleagues to support this Motion. view
• 23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I had pointed out this during debate on the Motion. From these amendments, it appears that participation has no problem. What has a problem is who is going to allow the participation. We are amending the participation on the original Standing Order No. 195 and re-introducing as allowed through permission by the chair of a committee. Why can we not, instead of deleting and re-introducing, just talk of the authority to permit instead of deleting “participation” and re-introducing it through the back door? view