David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: As Hon. Wamalwa has said, counties have millions of accounts. They are programmed to steal. Every county has one account at the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). I do not see why a 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
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: county should have a million accounts. Counties have been using this process to misuse public funds. With those few remarks, I support. In the Committee of the whole House, we will bring some amendments. view
• 20 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I thank you for the afternoon session. The Bill has a Bill status form from the Senate. It was first read in the Senate on 11th December 2014. It is coming to the National Assembly almost two or three years down the line. It is a very important Bill. This is one of the Bills that the Senate ought to have considered right from the start so that it could have been here early. In fact, many happenings in the counties are as a result of the fact that ... view
• 20 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: sit at the assembly chambers because that is where they deliberate. Our county assemblies should make it mandatory to have Public Galleries where people come to follow the proceedings. I would also like to talk about prohibited acts by Members. I think this might be misused. If an assembly decides to send me away like it happened to Hon. Wandayi, then it can. That is a shortcoming of our Standing Orders. I totally agree with Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal that we need to expand the provisions of punishment and not only this one that sends one away for the rest of ... view
• 20 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: It is not the assembly that gave me that position; it is my party. Now an assembly cannot withdraw that. If I am a chairman of a certain committee, it is my party that gave me that position. An assembly cannot purport to take a responsibility that is not theirs and remove me. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you are in the Speaker’s Panel and if we decide to remove you from there tomorrow, it is not proper because it is your party which proposed your inclusion in that panel. We will have gone overboard under the privileges that have been ... view
• 20 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, these are some of the issues that we needed to check. We cannot allow anybody to go beyond their mandate. If you look at Clause 15, it talks of the powers. It says that a quorum of the Powers and Privileges Committee is one-third, including the Speaker. Your Chair is the Speaker and in the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker will take over. It says “including the Speaker.” If the Speaker is not there, there is no quorum for whatever reason. We need to look at what is said in the Standing Orders. It ... view
• 20 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: The immunities which have been mentioned for MCAs are something that we need to countercheck because they might be misused. The power of freedom of speech has an end as per the Constitution. view
• 5 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. First and foremost, as we discuss the IEBC and in recognition of the two coalitions coming together and trying to agree on the aspect, there are some fundamental issues that we need to look into as Hon. Waiganjo has said. Looking at the mandate given to the Select Committee and the possible outcome, presumably, there will be some lacuna. I am a Member of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee and recently, I had opportunity to listen to the Petitioner regarding the removal of the IEBC. He made it very clear ... view
• 5 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: the due process. I agree with Hon. Duale that if we go back to the direction of the IPPG, what happened in 2007 may just be a rehearsal of what will happen in 2017. We have to agree in this House that irrespective of whether the IEBC commissioners will be removed or not, the process of picking new commissioners must follow the due process of the law. One of the mandates of the Select Committee in (b) states that “on the finding of (a) above, may recommend legal mechanisms for the vacation from office of the current Commissioners of the ... view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. This has been stipulated under the Fourth Schedule of our Constitution. It is high time this Bill addressed some of the gray areas that were not properly expounded on in the Fourth Schedule. This Bill covers about four other Acts: The Kenya Roads Board Act, 1999; the Kenya Roads Act, 2007; and the Public Roads and Roads of Access Act, 1920. You can see these are very old Acts which are not in conformity with the current Constitution. This Bill is timely now that it ... view