Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We are required to legislate, as Members of Parliament. That is our core business irrespective of the parties that sponsored us. I brought this Bill as a private Member. Whatever we have done today is a demonstration that to raise a two-thirds majority is not an easy task. I have not been sleeping. I have worked extra hard to raise 187 Members. I thank the Members who showed up today. It is not an easy task. Such Bills involve a lot of research. I have done a lot of research. In the Second Reading, when I replied, I had to ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I am an active Member when it comes to legislation. This is not the end of everything. It is high time we revisited the two-thirds majority rule because it seems it is impossible to raise the numbers. There are times when such Bills have come to the Floor of the House. We should not discourage our lady colleagues here because the two-thirds gender Bill is supposed to be re- introduced in the House. Maybe it is high time we revisited the Constitution and instead of the two-thirds majority, see how we can reduce it. It is practically impossible to raise ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: the cards, I knew we would not raise the requisite number. It is also a lesson for the Temporary Deputy Speakers next time when they are on the Floor. First, they must be able to ascertain numbers before the Division. It is also a learning process. I am a proud man because of what I have achieved today. Today, even the great people of Kiminini know the kind of person who came to this Parliament is fit to become a governor in 2022. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I thank the honourable Members and encourage them to try and bring a Bill. To bring a Bill up to this level is not easy. I have been waiting but I am happy there are more Bills to come. I have no interest of saying that we must revisit this. Next time, another person will bring it. We will look at this Constitution; see what is good and what is bad. Whatever is bad, maybe, we will be able to rectify through a parliamentary initiative. Whatever is bad that is in line with Article 255, we must go to a ... view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity. I want to thank Hon. Mwashetani and the rest though their Report was very brief. I wished to hear something more for purposes of benchmarking. In this country, land is very critical because it is a factor of production and contributes heavily when it comes to poverty reduction. view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We know very well that we have the housing agenda. You can only build houses if there is land. Right now, when you go to many urban cities, people have put up block apartments for purposes of ownership. As we speak, we have an issue with the Seefar Apartments. We have had this issue of people building on riparian land. I wished to hear what other jurisdictions have done when it comes to riparian land. A lot of property is being destroyed in this country because of the element of riparian. An example is a property along Lang’ata Road with ... view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I wanted to know according to international standards what the definition of riparian land is because some people are abusing it. The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) for instance are using it for purposes of corruption. People bought property and they were told it was owned by the National Housing Corporation (NHC), who sold it to a private developer, who built the houses and sold them. The late Hon. Soita Shitanda who was by then the Minister for Housing officially launched the project. Therefore, we need to benchmark and see what riparian land is. ... view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: In this country, land has become very expensive. In fact, many investors are running away because of the cost of land and absentee landlords. There are huge chunks of land which are not used for productive purposes. I think we should put a policy in place that if you have land in a city which lies fallow for purposes of speculation, then the Government should compulsorily acquire it. So, they can go into production and it can help in Public Private Partnership (PPP) for purposes of reduction of poverty. These are some of the issues we wanted to hear. view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We have been told there was a presenter called Swazuri. Is this Prof. Swazuri, the Chairman of NLC? We should borrow something from there so that the NLC which has been a problem in this country can advise the Ministry of Lands to increase productivity. These are some of the issues we wanted to hear about other cities. As Hon. Makali has said… I was in Germany and the Government owns the entire land in the urban cities and it is the one that develops and sells to individuals. Maybe, it is high time we borrowed this idea particularly for ... view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Report. view