Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: I support. view
• 28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would also like to support this Petition by Hon. Wangwe on behalf of Navakholo Constituency. Being familiar with the geography of the area and the ethnic distribution, definitely, if recruitment has been going on without anybody from Navakholo being recruited, then that is serious discrimination against a particular community. That means they end up not having representation in the armed forces or in the other security services in this country. I urge the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security to move with speed to ameliorate this problem so that it does not recur. This ... view
• 28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 12 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It is a long time since I got such a chance. What the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party has raised is very important. This House has been asleep because what is going on at the National Bank of Kenya (NBK) was published long time ago. For some reasons, NBK sold all their buildings and, in the process, showed a profit. That did not sound like banking to me. I wondered where our Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and Public Investments Committee (PIC) were to look into this matter. So, to some extent, this ... view
• 23 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, what the Chairman of PAC has said is very important. I respect media freedom and the freedom that we have allowed our media to enjoy. I will protect them with whatever I can to ensure that they continue to enjoy that freedom. However, they also must exercise some responsibility. They know very well what our Standing Orders say. They cannot go public on a Report that has not been made public by this House. It is up to this House to ensure that media houses exercise restraint. We cannot just let them get away with that because ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I know traditions die hard. Sometimes when people have been trained to do things in a particular way, it is difficult to change them. But really, some of these superfluous utterances are totally uncalled for. If anything, I hardly see any strangers who dare walk in here wearing a hat. They are already stopped from that. So, that kind of utterance is just a throwback to the past like it happened in Malindi by-elections where the Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) were patrolling the whole place and scaring mothers and women from going to vote. That is ... view
• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you--- view
• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I had briefly gone out of the Chamber when I heard the good lady, Hon. Amina Abdalla; express her reservations about the goings-on. With the trust I have in her, being a ranking Member in this House and knowing that she does good research before she talks, I thought everything would be easy after that. But in subsequent proceedings, I heard Hon. Lodepe appeal that the minority need protection from this House. I ran back because I realised that, perhaps, we might be on the brink of committing an illegality. That is what I ... view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. While I do not want to question your wisdom, it is not that the plenary is sleeping on the job. It is just that whatever allocations are done, they are done cleverly based on what they call public participation. 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