Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. I support the Motion as amended. I hasten to add that all the things that have been said about KNH are true. There is overcrowding, understaffing, underfunding and ill equipping. All those are true. Probably, much more is happening. However, while I support this Report, I would like to alert the House and the nation that we are treating a symptom. We are not treating the disease. The healthcare sector in this country is on its deathbed. There is a serious disease in the healthcare sector. ... view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: a simple mistake like equipment management service which is a national Government contribution to county governments yet they forgot to equip their own hospitals. By the Constitution, the national Government runs the health services but they forgot to even put equipment at KNH. The KNH now does not even have a functional MRI. In my view, with the capacity of KNH, they should have about five MRI equipment working. We even forgot to equip KNH. We have what I call a misplaced way of looking at healthcare and unless we put our minds together and do something about it, we ... view
• 22 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise on a point of order to seek your guidance and direction as to how we can sort out some problem. This happened in the last Parliament. A Bill was introduced by Sen. Khalwale in the Senate to amend the Political Parties Act. The Senate passed it but when it got to this House, it lacked a seconder so it flopped. Therefore, as per our rules and regulations, a mediation committee was set up to mediate that particular Bill. In the intervening period, Hon. Chris Wamalwa had also introduced a Bill to amend the Political ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to second this Report of PAC. I start by quoting from the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill: “Man, with his superior sense of intuition, with the capacity to think and to reason, does not eat his fellowman bodily. He gets more satisfaction out of “eating” him financially. Man is so avaricious that every conceivable law has been passed to safeguard him from his fellowman. So eager is man to possess wealth that he will acquire it in whatever manner he can; through legal methods, if possible, and through other methods if ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to second this Report of PAC. I start by quoting from the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill: “Man, with his superior sense of intuition, with the capacity to think and to reason, does not eat his fellowman bodily. He gets more satisfaction out of “eating” him financially. Man is so avaricious that every conceivable law has been passed to safeguard him from his fellowman. So eager is man to possess wealth that he will acquire it in whatever manner he can; through legal methods, if possible, and through other methods if ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Article 226(5) of the Constitution reads very clearly that if the holder of a public office, including a political office, directs or approves the use of public funds contrary to law or instructions, the person is liable for any loss arising from that use and shall make good the loss whether the person remains the holder of the office or not. None of that has ever been enforced. Hence, public officers continue mismanaging our resources. In an attempt to control the problem, a circular was issued on 2nd December 2014 at State House giving the Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) immense power ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Article 226(5) of the Constitution reads very clearly that if the holder of a public office, including a political office, directs or approves the use of public funds contrary to law or instructions, the person is liable for any loss arising from that use and shall make good the loss whether the person remains the holder of the office or not. None of that has ever been enforced. Hence, public officers continue mismanaging our resources. In an attempt to control the problem, a circular was issued on 2nd December 2014 at State House giving the Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) immense power ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: process, they misappropriated a lot of money. The same thing has happened to the Ministry of Devolution and the NYS. They suddenly end up with a huge amount of money which they feel they must spend to show that they are working and, in the process, they call their cronies and they start misappropriating the money in what I would call crony capitalism. It is the worst form of crony capitalism ever exhibited anywhere on this earth. It is very sad that this country, which is working very hard to industrialise and develop, can actually allow such a scam to ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: process, they misappropriated a lot of money. The same thing has happened to the Ministry of Devolution and the NYS. They suddenly end up with a huge amount of money which they feel they must spend to show that they are working and, in the process, they call their cronies and they start misappropriating the money in what I would call crony capitalism. It is the worst form of crony capitalism ever exhibited anywhere on this earth. It is very sad that this country, which is working very hard to industrialise and develop, can actually allow such a scam to ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Regulation 9 of the Draft Elections (Technology) Regulations, 2017 is amended in sub-regulation (2) by deleting the words “The commission may publish” and substituting therefor the words “The commission shall publish”. This is because sub-regulation (1) states that “the commission shall issue a public notice specifying the date, time and place of the testing and invite stakeholders to attend.” If that is “shall”, then it follows the rest should also be “shall”. It should not now be by discretion when we get to sub-regulation 2. view