Ejidius Njogu Barua

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• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The other issue I would like to comment on is about the obligation under this Act for every person who becomes aware about a corruption deal to report it to the EACC. This sounds very noble, but as we can see, in this country, we have developed very perfectly a culture of destroying institutions. Right now, the EACC is a shell of its own image. We do not have capacity to handle all these corruption cases in the event that all of us, as citizens, comply. For us to effectively fight corruption, we must ensure that institutions are protected and ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: We have just witnessed the IEBC commissioners being pushed out of office because of concerns and demonstrations. Instead of people getting to a round table, we resorted to violence hence reasoning was thrown out of the window. view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: We also have to encourage tolerance to one another, so that we can discuss and get the best of this country. The three responsibilities of the National Assembly and the county assemblies are representation, oversight and legislation. This House cannot go without taking a share of blame. If the National Assembly, the Senate and county assemblies were to do their jobs properly and not become agents of the Executive either at the county or at the national level, we may not require this type of law because we will tackle corruption and deal with it. Right now counties have, through ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: compromised by the Executive. If we do that, we shall fight corruption in the way it is supposed to be fought. view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I can see some Members want to contribute and are hurrying me up. I would like to say that one of the key ingredients of corruption is a corrupt election process, mainly the nomination process in political parties. If you elect people corruptly, you also expect them not to work against corruption. A corrupt system only generates corrupt leaders. In future, let us all support the Constitution. Let us look at Chapter Six of the Constitution and see how we can make use of it when we decide who is to be our leader at the various levels. view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Finally, I am happy the Chairman and the Vice-Chair of the Public Accounts Committee are in the House. Our Order No.13 is talking about adoption of the Report of the PAC. The issue of concern to me is that we are adopting Volume I and Volume II of 2013/2014 yet we are now in 2016/2017. We are approaching the sunset of this Parliament. We are concluding the last year of our term. I am not laying blame on anybody, but just making an observation that the oversight Committees of this House must do our work properly. We have the Public ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I beg to support. view
• 9 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity to second this Bill. This is a mediated version of the Water Bill, 2014. As the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources has stipulated, the Water Bill was passed by this House in July, 2015 and passed to the Senate for concurrence and a few issues emerged. We did not have major differences with the Senate for the first time. The differences between National Assembly and the Senate were not really major. Water is very important for life. In fact, there is a saying that: “Water is life.” Both ... view
• 9 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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