14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Richard Tong’i knows that I am very patient and focused.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
At the outset, I take this opportunity to reject this amendment. It looks like a joke to me. It does not have the seriousness it deserves. Somebody was seeking relevance and has vested interests in the whole thing. I remember debating the Bill sometime in 2018. It has taken a long time and I thought when it was brought back here it would have serious implication. What I see here is lack of the seriousness it deserves.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
I respect the Senate as our colleagues and we should not to talk to them, but let us work with them. I do not like the tone my colleagues have used. These are our colleagues and let us speak to them with all the respect they deserve.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
But, there is so much out there at the constituencies. I expect our colleagues in the Senate to oversee as they are supposed to. One, they should look at devolved functions apart from road network in constituencies and oversee them. They are supposed to summon governors. I do not know if they have fear of calling the governors before them. I do not see them calling the governors these days. Governors are supposed to be investigated, but Senate is not doing that. This is a very simple little thing. They are supposed to oversee the road network that the Members ...
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
They believe that Members of the National Assembly make money and that is not true. We oversee and they should do the same thing in the running of county governments. We have many things happening in counties and they are supposed to oversee that.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Members of the NG-CDF are members of the Roads Board and that is very clear. We work with KeRRA. They are supposed to work with another authority. What are they going to do? What interest do they have in this one? As far as I am concerned, and without wasting much time on this, let us go for mediation right away. As three or four Members have mentioned, the mediation team should be proportional to the number of people we represent. They are 67 including the nominated Senators; therefore, the ratio should be 1:3. They should go for mediation. People ...
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
With those few remarks, I ask our colleagues to be serious and let them not have vested interests and agree with whatever will come up in the mediation committee. The ratio should be 1:3 so that we complete this; failure to which the Bill will expire and people will ask us what we have done. I totally reject the amendment from the Senate.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am not a Member of this Committee. I agree and support the proposed amendments. I also want to contribute to the main Report if it is allowed.
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13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. My Question goes to the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation: (i) Is the Cabinet Secretary aware that the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority (AFFA) does not have a substantive board of directors and, further, that the secretariat is on temporary terms of service? (ii) When will the said board be gazetted?
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