Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to also contribute to this very important Motion. This Motion speaks to the sustainability of Kenya as a sugar producing country. From the outset, I want to say that successive governments have neglected the sugar sector and the sugarcane growers in this country. I say so because the 10th Parliament, for example, passed a resolution for the debts of those sugar companies to be written off. Up to now, they have not been written off. The debts are still being recommended to be written off by this Report, ignoring what the ... view
• 3 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: left with after selling everything. Can we not try and clean the plates and the spoons before we sell them so that they can fetch a better price? However, with this Report here, we are intending to privatise the factories as they are so that they can go at throwaway prices because the main asset there will be the land. I believe that, that is not the intention of any Government, including our own, to hurt its citizens who come from those areas. That not being the intention, I do not see any reason why we cannot follow the many ... view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report although you have said most of the things that I would have wanted to say. One of the main issues is that under a new constitutional dispensation, this House is going to receive very many petitions. We, therefore, need to be patient. We need to go through them justly and bring Reports here. Whether we will pass the petitions or reject them will depend on the Committee that is looking at them and the House at that time. However, some of us, from time to time, are going to be ... view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: senior management officials, definitely one or the other will be hurt. In this particular situation, one is a subject of a court case and so we cannot dwell on it. So, the other one became a subject of a petition. It is important that while we accept and in fact encourage freedom of Kenyans that came through the new constitutional dispensation to be able to petition their Parliament--- The freedom that Kenyans may petition Parliament on any issue is the best freedom that has ever been given to them. However, it is up to the Parliamentary committees to exercise due ... view
• 25 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this matter. I wish to thank hon. (Eng.) Gumbo for having the presence of mind to bring this Motion for adjournment of the House view
• 11 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Happy New Year, hon. Speaker. Thank you for your wise ruling on this matter which hopefully unlocks the impasse of last night. Now that the House Business Committee membership is essentially nominated by political parties in the House, is it then okay for hon. Members from other political parties to decide which person the political party should nominate? That is because if, say, my political party has nominated an hon. Member to the HBC, is it not the responsibility of my party? Is it really the party then nominating because if then the House is allowed to delete that name ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this Bill. First, I will say that, yes, we have a problem with security in this country and we must deal with it as a House. It is interesting that this badly drafted Bill was brought to us. In fact, if it, indeed, came through the Attorney-General’s Chambers, that office should be the next to be investigated, because the drafting is terrible. What they have done here is not really a Bill. What they have done here is an attempt at making a Bill. When you look at ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, you can shout but that is a fact. It is a painful fact. The fact of the matter is that our security services are so enmeshed in corruption that they will take a few pieces of silver and allow terrorists into our country to harass us. We can make new laws but unless we have got better command systems, we will still be in the same boat. The Mover of the Bill said we should have a bipartisan approach. That is good but it was rather an afterthought because he should have done that before. He was also supported ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: We have a real security problem but there is a bit of insincerity in the way this Bill has been introduced in the House, in the sense that when we came here in the morning, it was even listed for Committee of the whole House this afternoon. This was going to happen, long before the taking of the views from the public had been done. How are we going to do amendments in the Committee of the whole House? There was a bit of insincerity here and I think that insincerity can raise a lot of suspicion. I will only ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand on Standing Order Nos.47, 119 and 127. Standing Order No.47 (3) (1) states: “If the Speaker is of the opinion that any proposed Motion- (a) is one which infringes, or the debate on which is likely to infringe, any of these Standing Orders---” That Motion should not proceed. The debate on this Motion will infringe on the Standing Order. Standing Order No. 119 clearly states: “Every Bill that contains a provision limiting a right or fundamental freedom in terms of Article (24(2) of the Constitution shall contain separate and distinct provisions- (a) clearly expressing ... view