Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. He intends to withdraw the Motion and then he goes into other side shows which are not useful! As Hon. Arati said, he has accomplished his mission as a destroyer. He has destroyed the illustrious career of a very senior person in this country. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: That is the third person from Bungoma County. You will come there for votes and I will meet you. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: I am bitter. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Yes. view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also support this Bill. Of course, it goes without saying that I will support it because I was one of the architects of this Bill after a prolonged period of negotiations with the other people who were in the Committee. view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I would like to state clearly that the idea of having 500 people per polling station was not just picked out of the heart. It was actually out of calculations based on how many people an electronic voter identification device can handle in a day. The gadget takes a number of minutes to work. Based on that information, we calculated the best figure it can handle in a day, which is 500 people. view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: On the issue of polling stations and streams, “a stream” is a polling station. If a polling centre has 6,000 voters it means they will have 12 streams or stations. That should clear the air because one Hon. Member had wondered about that figure. view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Party-hopping is a side show because it was a small bit of the Bills that have been brought to the House. Anybody trying to take advantage of that is being unfair to the whole process. I encourage Hon. Members to read carefully about the use of electronic gadgets in elections. This Bill is very clear on how electronic gadgets can be used, how they can be monitored and how they can be audited for performance. This Bill is quite comprehensive on that. Elections in Africa are a very emotive event. One of the issues that lead to emotions is the ... view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: That brings me to the major point. Good laws can be in place but if the implementers are not willing to implement them, or they interpret those laws in a cynical way and mishandle them, we will get back to where we started. view