Francis Chachu Ganya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 821 to 830 of 1798.

• 13 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: What is the import of this? First it says: “by inserting the following new amendments except deletions”. So, I need further clarifications from the Vice-Chair of the Committee. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. From the outset, I do support this Motion and I want to commend the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for the job well done. If you look at the requirements of the Constitution and the Act, they have done their best to live up to it. Whether it is about regional balance, gender consideration, the need to have continuity in terms of institutional memory, they have done a very good job, and they need to be commended. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: They have tried their best to ensure that at least 14 counties are represented in this, by the 15 members. The elderly as well as the young people of this country have been given a chance, both men and women as well. This is a good Report; they have done with a very good balance. This Report needs to be supported by this House and endorsed. I want to state clearly that I do strongly believe that the former Speaker of this House, Francis Xavier ole Kaparo, will do a commendable job, given a chance to serve in this commission ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: necessary laws or what was there was not biting enough. They could not enforce what they needed because of the weakness of law or lack of resources. But looking at the crisis which we face in this country today in terms of tensions and conflict, whether at the Coast, North Eastern Province, Upper Eastern or Western Kenya, we have a country that is not at peace. That is why this Commission is very important for this country and actually, I do believe, unlike the other commissions in our Constitution where they have the priviledge of having three to eight members, ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I support this Report. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: ( Loud consultations ) view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: We took an oath to defend this Constitution. The IEBC commissioners discharged their constitutional duty and they did it extremely well. The IEBC conducted elections under very difficult circumstances. I was in the 10th Parliament when we appointed the new commissioners. Some of them, of course, were in the Commission before. They had one month to basically register voters electronically; this was demanded by the political class. We decided not to go for manual registration of voters but electronic registration of voters, which meant we had to invest millions and billions of money in it. With the resources constraints that ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: and counties. They were fair, very neutral and very free. We must be honest to ourselves. This country voted for the Constitution, which is no longer new, for a reason. We created constitutional bodies for a reason. If they do not perform as per our expectations, we are ready to send them home; that is not right; it is not fair to this country. We had our contest in the Supreme Court and the verdict was very clear; we have to live with it. It is true we have invested in the electronic election equipment in this country; it failed ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: That is my position. I strongly believe that the Committee did a very good job and we will stand by them. Thank you. view
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank all the 20 Members who have contributed to this Bill and all of those who supported it. I commit myself to ensure that I take into account their rich contributions as I propose amendments during the Third Reading. The Executive is proposing to change the mandate of NDMA to a common disaster management. I think this will be retrogressive, it is there for Kenya and it also places at risk the recent progress we have made in drought management in Kenya. It will dilute the only national institution that we ... view