Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 6961 to 6970 of 9741.

• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as you will recall while you were in the Chair last week, when the matter was being postponed, I brought this issue about the Government of the UK. But I want to conclude by saying that the matter has gone further to a situation whereby members of that militia have gone and raided a police station in Kilifi. This is on record! view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that The publication of Electoral Opinion Polls Bill be now read a Second Time. This is a Bill for an Act of Parliament to provide the manner for the publication of the electoral opinion polls and for the connected purposes. This Bill is born out of the reality that the publication of the results of electoral opinion polls greatly influences voters to vote in one way or the other. As such, there is need for a law to ensure that the electoral opinion polls are conducted in a scientific and transparent manner ... view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you for the light touch, hon. Member. I was surprised that the media seemed to lose the point. It appeared like somebody in this Parliament was about to reinvent the wheel. The truth the public must know is that opinion polling was introduced for the first time in the general election of the USA in 1824. This is when a polling done in Pennsylvania found that candidate Andrew Jackson was set to beat his opponent John Quincy. The opinion poll indicated that Jackson was ahead at 335 votes and Quincy was trailing at 169 votes. Indeed, Andrew Jackson went ... view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: In 1992 in Budalangi, we had a candidate for a party called “Kenda”, a professor who passed on and may God rest his soul in eternal peace, who had absolutely no chance. The candidates of 1992 were Kenneth Matiba, Daniel Moi and Jaramogi Oginga in our part of the world. So, they got their votes in tens of thousands, but the Kenda Party in one polling station in Budalangi called Sio Port, he got one vote. That is the effect of the underdog. A voter goes to the polling station and says: “No, no, no! Professor cannot just be seen ... view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the third and last effect on voters is the one that is classified in this book, The Broken Compass, as the tactical or strategic voting. This is where you find the undecided voters. Tactically and strategically, undecided voters can then gang up to defeat a specific candidate. If in the opinion poll voters realise that hon. Raila Odinga and hon. Musalia Mudavadi – for argument’s sake and I am referring to them purely because they are going through a contest in their party – are separated by a very narrow margin, then strategically and tactically, ... view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Allow me to mention something on the effect of opinion polls on us, the practicing politicians. Opinion polling has a direct effect on politicians. What it does is that it ends up reducing politicians from being leaders to becoming followers. It is expected that if Dr. Kilemi Mwiria goes to Tigania with his presidential candidate, he goes there as the leader and tells the people why his candidate of choice should be the one who should be voted for. However, the effect of opinion polls on a politician like Dr. Kilemi Mwiria is that when he sees that the candidate ... view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the final point I want to make before I move this Bill is the important matter of regulation. Do we or should we not regulate opinion view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am really surprised this afternoon. I thought the only professionals who normally find it difficult to converge in their thinking are lawyers. But, today, you have seen it yourself that renowned economists like Messrs. Okemo, Nyamweya and others are confusing us beyond what this Report was intended for. I want to also submit that I am at a loss of only one thing. If the economists are unable, then who am I, a mere doctor of medicine, to understand the complexity of this matter? This matter is so complex that I have taken trouble to ... view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Kenya is so big that even if you become emotional and try to put it on your head, you cannot carry it even for a quarter of a second. We want to accommodate the following recommendations: I will go straight to recommendations on pages 70 to 75 of the book. The first recommendation is monetary policy, legal amendment and fiscal policy. The easiest to deal with is the issue of legal amendments. I look at them and I see no problems. It is important that we rise to the need for us to put the House in order so that, ... view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Yes, I agree that the situation in Kenya was no peculiar to us. It obtained in Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa and even countries in the European Union. In this Report, you have given us a graph showing as much. For this reason, we cannot take the entire period of the House, three days, converting such a noble Motion into a Motion for discussing one, Prof. Ndung’u. view