David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: around Nairobi; we saw a bunch of needles and other cotton waste with a lot of blood and things like that. It was pathetic. view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: So, we just want to understand from the Mover of the Motion what he wanted to achieve by this particular Motion. The Tenth Parliament made a law. Before people used to sell illicit brews in sachets and plastic bottles. There was a law which was passed indicating that you cannot sell alcoholic drinks in sachets or plastics. They came up with glass bottles and that is good. However, as it has been said, people are still using sachets. Established brewing companies like Keroche and others follow suit. You have to pay a deposit as you pick your bottle of alcohol. ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have been in the football game. I remember at one point Kenya Breweries offered to sponsor football activities in the country. In this regard, they had to display their advertisements. If we are going to encourage manufacturers of alcohol, under the social corporate responsibility, to sponsor activities during school holidays or weekends, then the question that they will ask is: “Are we going to display our products?” Will that have an effect? Will it help in terms of reducing the abuse? It is very unfortunate that we have lost so many people through illicit brews. ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I agree with the Seconder that we need to encourage NACADA to take responsibility and educate the youth on the dangers of consuming alcohol and drugs. NACADA ought to enhance capacity building and mobilise its officers, so that they advise the young people on how best they can avoid consumption of alcohol and drugs. I want to thank some of the counties which have taken this initiative, especially Mombasa. We know that in Mombasa County, there are great efforts to address the menace of drug abuse. If other counties emulate what Mombasa is doing, we will do well as a ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I am disturbed that we might agree to pass this Motion. I am a Member of the Implementation Committee and my only fear is that we will find a lot of difficulties pushing for the implementation of these terms. I know some of them will say that they need to get in touch with the counties which are free to handle their own issues without being given directives. We will try to push for the allocation of some money in the form of conditional grant. That money could be used to address most of the issues. Thank you, hon. Temporary ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. I will take two minutes. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, much has been said. All I want to talk about is the Report. The Report that we have been given by the Committee talks about the academic background of the nominee. It is also important for the Committee to, in future, indicate the duration of study in respect of each qualification. We had an opportunity to look at the credentials of one of the nominees the other day and we found that he cleared a Masters Degree course in ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I remember at some point when we were discussing the issue of porous borders of Kenya and Somalia and how we should be treating the people we find within our borders without Kenyan citizenship, of course, there was a suggestion that we should repatriate them back across the border and leave them some 50 or 100 kilometers into Somalia without going through the process of law. The nominee ought to have indicated exactly what measure he is going to take. Lastly is about the status of Somali refugees. We had agreed, although it was stopped by the courts, that we ... view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I arise to support the amendments by the Senate. National Assembly had done quite a lot of work on this Bill. From the Senate amendments, we are mostly trying to clear some grammatical errors and giving definitions. The only problem I have is with one of the amendments. They are removing the words ‘youth, women and people with disability’ and inserting the word ‘disadvantaged groups’. They went ahead and explained what a ‘disadvantaged’ group means. They have left it so open and any person of any age or gender can claim ... view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: reports on a quarterly basis, just as hon. Sakaja has said. He is going to indicate some penalties. If a procurement entity does not meet that requirement, then what action should be taken? It is important for us to get those reports in Parliament. One thing we need to consider is this: It is one thing to say 30 per cent but another to say the youth, women and people living with disability being able to register companies without any problems. It has become a cumbersome process where they have to come to Nairobi. We also have to look at ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion on the appointment of Mr. Joseph Kipchirchir Boinnet. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. I had an opportunity of sitting through the vetting process. Some of the things that came out in that vetting process are food for thought for this House. We need to start considering some of the laws that we have. A lot of issues came up. In fact, we were forced to have a consensus as to how we were going to move forward. One of the issues ... view