David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am contributing to the Petition on the National Peace Day. I am sorry I was not very attentive to get the name of the petitioner. I come from an area that is frequently affected whenever there are elections. There is always some violence. I totally agree with the petitioner. If we base the date of the National Peace Day on the handshake issue, then other handshakes might in future also find their way into this country. I agree with the petitioner that this country requires a national peace day where people come together for purposes ... view
• 25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection the following: Could the Cabinet Secretary explain why Mr. David Gicheru Kinuthia, a former employee of the Ministry of Agriculture, has not been paid his retirement and gratuity benefits to date since his retirement in 1995? view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I need your guidance. This has nothing to do with the Questions. The first quarter of the Financial Year is over. I want to inquire about the National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). We were at the Office of the NG-CDF to find out about it. We were told that they cannot proceed to tell us to give out our proposals unless we are through with the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, which was concluded recently. I am not saying that the House Business Committee (HBC) is not competent enough but how soon will it be brought to ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I need your guidance, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. It is a little bit difficult to say whether I support or oppose this Bill. The critical part of this Bill is to ask ourselves whether constitutionally it is going to affect the term of office of the President. In the 11th Parliament, Hon. David Ochieng’ had brought a very substantive Motion on this matter related to the same facts that Hon. Kaluma has alluded to. He had a varied reason for us to push the election date from August to December. But the Constitution is very clear that our ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I do not want to read all of them, but I will go specifically to Article 255(1)(f), which says: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: “the term of office of the President…” view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: If, indeed, we are to change the elections date, the conversation is that maybe we also need to get some advice from the Supreme Court. Our elections were supposed to have been held on 8th August 2017. Unfortunately, because of a repeat election, it was pushed to 26th of October. It means that if we push our elections to December, then we will have exceeded the term of office of the President by almost a month or two months if the elections are going to be held in December 2022. I wish Hon. Wamalwa was here. We can check the ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: (b) the amendment is supported by a simple majority of the citizens voting in the referendum”. That is very important. However, this country is going through a very trying moment. Every single coin that is spent in this country should go to very meaningful development initiatives. Pumping in an additional Kshs20 billion or Kshs30 billion for us to hold a referendum while we consider, among other things, having positions for fewer individuals, is something that we need to look into as a country. It is not fair for us to have a referendum, spend so much money and do not ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I know we have passed a Motion in this House that in this kind of Motion, every Member gets 10 minutes. I know this is a House of debate and this Bill has created a lot of interest, just before we start debating it, I am requesting that if we could agree as Members, we be given a maximum of five minutes to air our views. view