Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity, I will be very brief. These treaties have been long overdue and we know very well that they can only be effective when they are ratified by Parliament. I sit in the Committee of Defence and Foreign Relations and when you look at the member countries, you will realize that they have already done it. Actually, Kenya is the last one and so, mine is to request the Hon. Members to move with speed so that we do this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: ratification as quickly as possible. One critical and important issue is on military training. When training is done jointly, we will tend to enjoy the economies of scale. It is going to come with a lot of benefits. Again, when you look at exemption of tax on the visiting forces, those forces need to be motivated. They are putting their lives at stake and it is, indeed, critical that when it comes to their salaries, the issues of exemption of tax should be implemented. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Another critical issue is when you look at aspects of technical co-operation. Once we do it together, there will be technological transfer and in the process, we are going to enhance issues of security. Again, once we have this cluster, it implies that if any one of our members is attacked, then all of us are at risk and that is why it is critical for the issues of technical co-operation to be put together so that, in terms of improving technology, it can be something that will help all the members who are in the cluster. Mine is to ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support. view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to seek your guidance pertaining to the business of this House. In line with Article 109 of the Constitution, we know that this House has the legislative authority. Two weeks ago, I brought an amendment to the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (Amendment) Bill which had been sponsored by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, Hon. Chepkong’a. In the wisdom of this House that amendment passed which required that the Secretariat of EACC be re-vetted because their confidence levels had gone down. view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: To my surprise, and maybe this is a trend, the EACC so far has sent some officers to my Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) office in Kiminini bringing a lot of intimidation and harassment. I do not know whether it has to do with that amendment that was passed by this House. It is an issue that has raised a lot of concern. view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: After doing a little bit of research, you realise that many Members have also been harassed over the same; there is an allegation that Members of Parliament passed that amendment because they are corrupt. Some of us are not in any list of corruption. We are not even being investigated by the EACC. We made it very clear. Those who are being investigated are the members of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives and Hon. Keter, whose issue was out of integrity and not corruption concerns. view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: This is intimidation and harassment. We want to be assured that in this House we legislate freely; there is another force of impunity somewhere that is trying to harass and intimidate Members over the same. I seek your guidance. view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you; maybe a few Members can ventilate on this. view
• 28 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. First and foremost, I want to thank the Almighty God for bringing President Obama The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view