Ejidius Njogu Barua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Finally, the debate we had about Director-General and Company Secretary touching on my friend’s wife is very healthy. That is because it is showing the importance of governance. If 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
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: we put our debate on personalities, we shall be judged harshly. Let us work on merits and demerits of issues and remove personalities. Let us stop humiliating our comrades. view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I second. view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Special Report on Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF). The YEDF was meant to play a critical role in empowering the youth. Secondly, I would like to commend and congratulate the Members of Public Investments Committee (PIC) for a job well done. The Committee has exposed some of the anomalies in our institutions and by so doing, has made us aware of what is ailing our economy. In matters conservation, where I am an expert, when you talk ... view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: When the Chairman of the PIC was moving the Report, I was shocked to learn that a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) can have the mandate delegated to her by a Board, which is supposed to be competent, to be the sole signatory. As much as the report put a lot of blame on the CEO, I would also like this House to consider evaluating the competence of the members of the Board, which should not only be based on academic qualifications. We can have people who are qualified but, based on the fact that maybe they lacked the will to ... view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Board should not have taken that long to discover the disappearance of Kshs180 million. If the Board was, indeed, performing its oversight and policy roles the way it is supposed to do, it should have stopped this thing early. This country would have lost less money than it did. view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Anybody who is appointed or elected bears some responsibility. We need to examine those who are responsible from across all the Ministries, including the parent Ministry. If I am appointed as a Cabinet Secretary (CS) or as a Permanent Secretary (PS), I would make it my business to understand what is happening to the institutions under my docket. Somebody somewhere in the Ministry and in the organization must have slept on his or her job, and it is for that reason that I would like to place the blame much deeper even upon other persons. view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The Chairperson of YEDF, who was described properly yesterday in many adjectives, is a good example of somebody who has taken political privileges too far. He was not an executive Chairman. His work was to give leadership to the Board and this did not happen. For us to stop those things from happening in the future in other institutions, we have to bite the bullet. I would like to recommend that we need to have a public hearing where the people who commit those types of heinous acts are put to the public and answer to the public because sacking ... view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the other issue that arose from the Report is the minimum qualifications. When members are appointed to the Board - for continuity and sustainability of this nation - I support the views of the Chairman that qualification should be observed. There are some people who have below minimum qualifications. In my opinion, the appointing authority should look for other jobs to give them; jobs they can do better, as opposed to being used as rubber stamps in some institutions. What happened at the Youth Enterprise and Development Fund is almost similar to what happened to Kazi kwa ... view