5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, listening to what Hon. Musimba is saying, in terms of explaining the imports of this amendment, I am tempted to support him. I actually support him because what he is saying it that there is need, other than just indicating the network coverage, to do an audit to confirm that it will work to avoid a situation where it could collapse like it has always been doing. To me, that is very important. Hon. Duale has just said that Hon. Musimba is an authority on this issue. Are we questioning the authority we have already confirmed?
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5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I think from the explanation of the Chair, if there are other commissioners seated there, then it will be difficult to have a director chairing the meeting when commissioners are there. On that note, it is important to leave the word “commission” so that any of the commissioners can chair.
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5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
I oppose this one.
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4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
On a point of order.
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4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. In terms of relevance, is the Member discussing the Appropriation Bill or the Finance Bill? According to the Order Paper, we are discussing the Appropriations Bill but he seems to be discussing the Finance Bill.
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4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me use this time to second this important Bill, the Equalisation Fund Appropriation Bill. This is a very important Bill because this Fund was created by the Constitution since 2010, as the Chair has said. In the contributions that I have made to this House relating to budgets, I have always said that it is unfortunate that these funds have not been utilised. Today, I am a happy person. Even though it has come late as we are just winding up the 11th Parliament, I am happy we now have a framework of ...
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4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
marginalised to catch up with the rest of the country. This is quite important. I am happy we have this Bill, which has been brought to the House. As I second, one of the challenges we have as a country is ensuring that we get value for money. I would urge my colleagues, Members of Parliament, to make sure that they seriously supervise implementation of projects like water projects, roads and others. If we do not supervise implementation, we will continue channeling a lot of resources to programmes, but we hardly realise the expected outputs or outcomes. The Members have ...
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29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly:
On a point of order.
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29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party that we step down Order No.9, but I think we should put this on record. I remember Hon. Mule also had another Bill which was related to health matters and this is the second one we are stepping down because of the Health Bill. I think it is unfair for Members to keep deferring their Motions or Bills because there is a mother Bill which we are not aware where it is, as a House, and we have not been given progress. ...
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28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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