Ekwee David Ethuro

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Hon. Member for Lari and then the hon. Okemo. Hon. Okemo will conclude, given the interest on the Finance Committee. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Order, Members! I would like to move the debate on the closure, but before I do so, since I had allowed hon. Okemo to contribute, I want just want to confirm to him that he had spoken to the original Motion. You can only be allowed to speak to the amendment; an amendment that was already determined. You cannot speak again to the Motion. Those are our rules, and I think my job is just to faithfully follow them. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Kioni, you have 11 minutes to conclude your contributions. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: First, I want to thank hon. Khalwale for addressing this very important issue of opinion polling. This is an issue that has obvious implications in terms of our political contests. It is an issue that if it is left unregulated, we run the real risk that an individual can use it as an opportunity to influence public opinion in the manner that particular individual wants the opinion to be. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it also introduces the issue of scientific sampling but in doing so, the Bill is still shallow because it must determine the size. In scientific inquiry, we say “N” must be greater than 30”, so that the hypothesis that you are testing can be determined to be correct. So, there should be a sample size of the information to be given but that sample size must be critical enough for you to be able to say “this is actually the opinion of the people of Kenya”, especially for electoral purposes. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Therefore, I would want to go further and suggest that there must be a particular percentage. We could say 40 per cent of the people to be sampled, so that we know that the outcome of the poll is correct. There is also the article in terms of “if applicable”. The margin of error must be provided. In every question, you must factor in a term error. So, the information that will be brought by the pollsters cannot be “if applicable”. They must always give the term error because the term error is what you use to discount what is ... view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will remember, especially in our situation in the last general elections. When the opinion poll results were favourable to a particular candidate, he ascribed them to the beauty of the person. We want to run away from such a situation. When the polls were applicable to that particular individual who described the other one in terms of the beauty, all over a sudden, beauty was not a factor in the polling. So, this Bill is trying to bring in very rigorous scientific instruments that will not be subjective to the way we feel or ... view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I want to support the Bill. I want all of us to make sure that we do this in a very scientific manner. I want to echo the words of hon. Onyancha – that we are providing for information but we are not saying where. Maybe, the Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK), for instance, should be the depository of that information. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Secondly, the issue of qualifications of the pollsters themselves should be considered. This cannot just be left for every Tom, Dick and Harry or Kamau and Ensokon and such Kenyans to one day decide that they want to give an opinion on Ekwe Ethuro because he is running for a particular seat in the county or in the nation. Hon. Members will agree with me that we are getting some proposals such as “we can do this, we can do that”. If I am interested, I could also be relying on the services of those fellows but I want to ... view