11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
I am not letting you down. I have a right for the people of Kiminini. You also have a right to speak what you want. You cannot tell me that my speaking is letting you down. Yes. Let me say---
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11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
No! No! No! Hon Speaker, I sit in the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. When we asked we were given the NIS reports.
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11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I sit in the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. When we asked the Director General of National Security Service (NIS) questions, we were given the NIS Reports. He said on the Westgate case they had given the report to the police, but they did not act just like the issue of Mpeketoni. This law is saying, so as to avoid this issue of blame game, where the NIS always comes and says they passed the information to the police, we should give them powers to arrest those victims and take them to the police. I am speaking ...
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11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
Another issue about this Act; the National Police Service Act, Article 245, we have said the buck stops at the presidency. Article 245 (7) says the President can fire the Inspector General (IG). The IG and the Deputy Inspector General have security of tenure. How can the President work if he cannot fire these people?
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11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
This is the issue and these are some of the amendments that we are proposing in this law. Hon. Speaker, there is a professor in Harvard who said that 70 per cent of good plans fail because of poor implementation. We need to look at the structures. Where is it wrong?
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11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
I am not anybody’s sycophant and I will never be one. We are going to pass laws for the benefit of this country. It does not mean when I am in Opposition I should feel anything. This is the reason I was voted. I represent a cosmopolitan constituency.
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3 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. This is a serious Bill. Because some amendments have come in very late, I was requesting if you could give us two or three minutes.
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3 Dec 2014 in National Assembly:
After we receive the amendments.
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