Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 751 to 760 of 1379.

• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Commission.” The Minister has not yet established that but he is already asking us to restructure. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg your indulgence to rule whether what the Minister is doing is constitutional or not before we proceed with the matter. Otherwise, I have no objection with the Political Parties Bill. However, the rest of the Bills appear to me to be against the Constitution. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would have wished to support subject to deletion of “The Commission on Administrative Justice Bill, Bill No.21 of 2011, The Kenya National Human Rights Commission Bill, Bill No.22 of 2011 and The National Gender and Equality Commission Bill, Bill No.23 of 2011.” If those three were deleted from there, it would have made me feel easier in supporting. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: However, I support. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, let us give the old man what he wants. Thank you. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, using that same Standing Order No.1, which gives the Chair discretionary powers, you could perhaps find a way of asking the Minister to recall this Memorandum from the Committee of the whole House so that he can cure that potential problem and then we can reconvene and pass the amendment. view
• 9 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, mine is a brief one. As you give guidance, it should not just be for the new hon. Members but for all the hon. Members because this is a new Constitution and, most likely, the new hon. Members have absorbed the new Constitution better than the old hon. Members who are stuck in their old ways! view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I do not see the need for that amendment because when we are talking of consultations, this is an Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. In case of elections, there might be need for consultations. So, if we are going to limit them to only consult vis-a-vis the boundaries, then we are saying that they cannot consult in case of elections. If I understand hon. Kioni’s amendment, that will limit the Electoral and Boundaries Commission to only consult on boundaries and nothing else. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I am going to be very factual in opposing this amendment. Precedent was set before. In South Africa, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Electoral Management Board had to go to the Constitutional Court when the commissioners usurped the role of her secretariat. A similar thing happened in Namibia, where the President had to intervene to ensure that the secretariat was left with more muscle than what the commissioners wanted. Ghana’s election body, which is one of the best elections management bodies we have in this continent, has a clear-cut role between the Commissioners and the ... view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, you had given me the Floor before the points of order came in. I would like to support the amendment to the amendment. It is very important that we realize that if we are talking about institutional memory, and we have kept on talking about it, it is not only carried by the Commissioners. It is also carried by the technical staff. It will be important that we also retain some technical staff who will be able to carry on the work, so that we do not have people coming in who might not have the memory ... view