David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1401 to 1410 of 2696.

• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: I support the amendment. view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: I support the amendment. view
• 6 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to air my views regarding the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill. I am also a Member of the CIOC, whose Chair is here. This is one of the constitutional provisions that have not been implemented. We cleared with all the other provisions. It is unfortunate that it has taken this long. We have had many interactions with our colleagues women Members of Parliament. In two occasions, they invited us to meetings to try to mobilise and make us understand the essence of having this provision actualised. I do not ... view
• 6 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: It is also becoming increasingly difficult even at the county assembly level to attain the two-thirds requirement. I will give the example of Nakuru County. Currently, the Assembly has eight elected women members brought by all the political parties. Considering the fact that Nakuru is more of a Jubilee zone, we reduced that number to only three during the nominations. This translates to nomination of one woman for every three elected. The number of Members of County Assembly (MCA) in Nakuru is 55, meaning women can only go up to 19. It means that even if we nominated 19 women, ... view
• 6 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you remember the ruling by the court, which gave Parliament 60 days to pass this Bill. It is also an issue now. Assuming it is not passed, does the same constitutional provision that provides that - if you do not pass… This is because already the period lapsed. Assuming in the 12th Parliament again this Bill is not passed, what would happen? Will the same law again be applicable, in the sense that the next Parliament stands dissolved, if we do not pass this Bill? Therefore, it is a matter that we really need to look into. Of ... view
• 6 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: which have been given in the amendments are quite in order. We really need to look into that, particularly the 20 years. Hon. Chepkong’a had brought his amendment. I do not know whether it is still a property of the House. It had actually addressed some of these issues in terms of how we will stagger this within the 20 years. I also agree with Hon. Neto on the additional 10 years. I think it has been given a very high threshold and it might not be possible to push it to another 10 years. view
• 6 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: I think we will need to look at this holistically in the Committee of the whole House so that we can bring the amendments and also look at the other articles within the Constitution that we will also want to see. I want to repeat this. The threshold of two-thirds to amend the Constitution is very high and we might never do it. Of course, we call upon our male colleagues to support this Bill. In the last attempt, I was one of those people who were whipped to get into the House. I hope that the male and female ... view
• 31 May 2017 in National Assembly: Almost two months ago, when you were seated there as the substantive Speaker, I requested for a report on a petition regarding a primary school’s land that has been grabbed. The petition was referred to the Departmental Committee on Lands. You had given directive. Two months down the line now, we do not have a report. I do not know what to do and you had directed that the report be brought before the House. The 60 days expired a long time ago and you had directed that the report be tabled on the Floor of the House so that ... view
• 31 May 2017 in National Assembly: Almost two months ago, when you were seated there as the substantive Speaker, I requested for a report on a petition regarding a primary school’s land that has been grabbed. The petition was referred to the Departmental Committee on Lands. You had given directive. Two months down the line now, we do not have a report. I do not know what to do and you had directed that the report be brought before the House. The 60 days expired a long time ago and you had directed that the report be tabled on the Floor of the House so that ... view
• 31 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to thank Maitu wa County of Murang’a for bringing a very good Bill. view