Charles Onyancha

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 131 to 140 of 305.

• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I notice that this Bill requires information. For instance, who should be a pollster? It is important that we have qualified people conducting opinion polls. This qualification should be determined by relevant authorities whom we have in the Government. We should then have a central depository, maybe, in the Ministry of Information and Communications, which determines the licensing issues with regard to pollsters. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: The admitting Ministry is the Ministry that will receive data on the methodology and also the sampling method of the pollsters that this Bill requires to be deposited without stating into which place that depository should be. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Bill has also failed to cover private polling. Private polling is a private affair, which should be excluded completely so long as the results of that private polling are not published. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: I want to conclude by saying that the bandwagon effect is very important when it comes to polls. It is for that reason that we should have proper qualifications for pollsters, a proper registration system, a proper licensing and more importantly, we should have a central depository for that information. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: With those few words, I beg to support. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. This is an excellent Bill that Ms. A. Abdallah has presented today. We have had a very serious problem of drug abuse in this country. We have too many institutions which are unconnected although they try to control drug abuse. For that reason, this legislation is going to go very far in ameliorating the situation and ensuring that there is a large measure of control. It is very worrying that drug abuse has been on the increase in our schools and many of our institutions of higher learning. It ... view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on alcohol control, the issue about the Mututho rules, which have now, in a sense, been suspended, needs to be revisited. We have seen many cases of abuse at homes, especially these days in Central Kenya, because of drug abuse. Families have broken up as people have failed to take responsibility for their family’s welfare and upkeep, all because of lack of control of these drugs. So, it would be very nice to have a country that is, in a sense, able to find its way forward by the non use of hard drugs and ... view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. view
• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I second. view
• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to oppose part “a” of this proposal and support Part “b;” the reason is exactly what hon. Amina Abdalla said earlier. This will give to the IEBC, whose independence hon. Members have been demanding, a free hand to satisfy certain needs in representation that cannot be satisfied by population. view