Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 14 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this point of order is requesting you to make a ruling on this and guide us because I know you approved the Motion. However, the law that we are basing on is the amendment done in 2010, while the reports were tabled in 2008. So, are we intending to apply this law retrospectively and is that how the law works? So, I would like your guidance on this before we proceed on this debate. This is because, in my thinking, it looks like the whole idea of bringing this Motion, which is a very good idea, is premised ... view
• 27 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for this opportunity to also lend my voice to what Hon. Gumbo started. I had the opportunity to be in China just before the competition started. In the hotel we were staying, there was one Chinese who was very good in English. He asked us: “Are your athletes coming?” We said yes. He said: “Are they going to run very hard?” We said they were coming to sweep all the medals. He laughed and said: “Good. Come.” The athletes have gone ahead to prove that. However, I want to say that as Kenyans, to recognise our ... view
• 27 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for this opportunity to also lend my voice to what Hon. Gumbo started. I had the opportunity to be in China just before the competition started. In the hotel we were staying, there was one Chinese who was very good in English. He asked us: “Are your athletes coming?” We said yes. He said: “Are they going to run very hard?” We said they were coming to sweep all the medals. He laughed and said: “Good. Come.” The athletes have gone ahead to prove that. However, I want to say that as Kenyans, to recognise our ... view
• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Whether we believe in resurrection or not, it is important that we realise that yesterday a precedent was set in the sense that quite a number of us were not aware of that opening within the Standing Orders when we are dealing with a Bill related to the Constitution. The few who were aware might have stood up after Hon. Lelelit’s Bill was lost. In the case of Hon. Ochieng’s Bill, many of us were not aware of that kind of provision. It is so because we must all realise that the new Standing Orders are ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to thank the Chairman of the PAC for moving the Report. Apart from him, I was also not a Member of the Committee. However, that goes to show that this Report has been delayed in coming to the Floor of the House. The House Business Committee (HBC) should endeavor to do a better job in future. That just raised suspicions of what could be in the Report and the Members will say, yet when you read the Report, I would call it one of the mildest investigative reports ever tabled in this ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: temperatures, if you go through it, you will realise that there is really nothing new. In fact, you will find that His Excellency the Deputy President is exonerated completely from any association. All he did was that he needed to travel, he tasked the officers to get him a way to travel, he travelled and accomplished what he went to accomplish. So, the Report was raising political temperatures for no reason. The fact that the House Business Committee kept it away from the Order Paper for too long raised public interest for no good reasons. It is clear that at ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Finally, because I do not want to take too long, as I said earlier on, this Report is much innocuous than what it had been made to look like. It is unfortunate that while the Chief of Staff in the Office of the Deputy President has been asked to step aside, this Report goes on to suggest that she needs to be investigated to see what her role was in all this. The officers who were involved in this transaction were transferred from the Ministry even before the Special Audit Report was carried out. That raises suspicion because you do ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: President has been giving instructions in writing because if not, then it will raise a lot of queries as to why we have that particular provision in the Constitution. It was put there for a reason - so that people do not do wrong things and then say that they were under instructions from a higher office and yet there is nothing in writing. So, we were trying to remove the notion that this is an order from above by mouth and not in writing. That is what the Constitution was trying to remove. It is good that this particular ... view
• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to present a Public Petition. I, the undersigned, on behalf of Mr. Peter Orowe Nyambok, a resident of Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay County, draw the attention of the House to the following:- THAT, the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is an institute under the State Department of Health performing a national function as a research institute. THAT, the Kenya Medical Research Institute has failed in its mandate and does not have a clear human resource policy and manual to guide its human resource practices, resulting in frustration of employees. THAT, the Kenya Medical Research ... view