Charles Muriuki Njagagua

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 281 to 290 of 345.

• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: through the governors, the Members of County Assembly and even the Senators. Under the LSK, we must agree that they have set out branches. This means that we will be having branches, which will be taking care of upcountry members of the society. For a long time, and I believe you will agree with me, the LSK has been governed from Nairobi and those members in Kitale, Mombasa and Embu, the county I come from, were feeling that they were being left out because important decisions that pertain to the LSK never used to get to them on time. So, ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: ballot. You will remember the ballot papers which were sent to your offices and you would cast your vote through the post office. There were issues that votes were tampered with. The elections were carried out by the IEBC. view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for whatever wrongs that have been heaped on the IEBC rightly or wrongly, they have redeemed themselves through the elections of the LSK. At this juncture, I must congratulate the LSK Chairman-elect, who was my classmate. I believe that he will take the LSK to greater heights. I would also like to congratulate the office that was re-elected for the lofty ideas that they have. As somebody said before, litigation in this country has become very expensive. Lawyers do not come cheap. The manifesto of the current LSK Chairman and the guidelines of the office that ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in fact, some people call lawyers “sharks” but I want to say that the Bill has also set out mechanisms of how one can lose their membership to the LSK. If you are involved in misconduct, you are not truthful and ethical to your clientele, there are ways and means of dealing with you. You will appear before the disciplinary committee--- view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this Procedural Motion. My position is that I would oppose this Motion for reasons that have been articulated by my friends. You realize that the membership is 349. In the last Session, just before we broke for Christmas some people said that there were Members who had not even made their maiden speeches and a couple of others had never spoken for more than two times. I believe that was because of limitation of time to speak. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: We know as parliamentarians that the key role of parliamentarians is not just talking inside the Chamber. We go to committees. We attend to our constituents. We go to our constituencies, but many of these voters imagine that the Member who does not speak inside the Chamber is actually not doing his core job. So, to avoid a situation where many of the Members will not have spoken by the end of the Session, I propose that the Mover takes ten minutes, the Seconder another ten minutes and other Members five minutes. We will share time equitably if we do ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in any event I have sat here for almost one year and I have noticed that very few of the Members actually exhaust their ten minutes. So, instead of putting it at a maximum of ten minutes, I humbly request that Members find favour with my argument. We do it for five minutes and the Mover takes ten minutes. Thank you very much. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Speaker. I equally rise to support the Procedural Motion. It should not be lost on hon. Members that all the other arms of the Government have gone digital. Those in the Executive are always on their iPods . In the Judiciary, High Court Judges are always on their iPods . So, what hon. Wanga has said is very relevant for this august House. We must also appreciate that laws are not static. In this august House, we have Members from different fields of specialty. Not all of them are lawyers. So, when we make Standing ... view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, Temporary Deputy Chairman. Still on sub-clause 46, it states: “An unqualified person shall only practise journalism under a licence, authority or consent given by a journalist.” Are we saying that we are encouraging brokerage? Are we saying that a journalist shall give a licence to somebody to practise journalism? For example, a lawyer will give somebody who is not even qualified as a lawyer a certificate for that person to practise law? I do not think that clause is good. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Indeed, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, that is why we are saying that, if they have to--- Anybody who writes articles on the newspapers, either for a fee or for free, would qualify to be a journalist. Therefore, we need to think of a better way of retaining that clause or doing away with it all together. view