22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to leave it there but I have the balance of minutes as you ruled.
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, though this may sound unrelated, whenever we walk in our constituencies, we pick up things and bring them to this House so that they can be addressed. This may be a bit unrelated.
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to say that---
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support.
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22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have not concluded.
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21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, since the sudden and shocking demise of Prof. Ali Mazrui on 13th October, 2014, in New York, thousands of tributes have continued to pour in from people from all sheds of life who have remembered this fallen giant from all over the world. Presidents, prime ministers, ministers, university chancellors, scholars and students from all walks of life have poured their tribute. People have eulogized him in the most glowing terms. Therefore, I join the rest of the world in mourning Prof. Mazrui as the Member for Kitui West Constituency, the Leader of Minority Party and in my personal ...
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21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
office and asked that he should be released. He later organised for Prof. Oculi to leave Uganda. The current Technical University of Mombasa was a product of his effort to take university education closer to his people in Mombasa, when he was the Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). Hon. Speaker, Prof. Mazrui used his brilliant mind to traverse the world articulating African and global issues. He wore the badge of Pan-Africanism proudly as he stood up for the rights of the oppressed in Africa and in the global South. Indeed, Kenyan scholars have much to ...
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21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon Speaker. First I want to thank you. I was out of the country but I saw the spirited fight you put so that the new Standing Orders that this House passed were effected, but the Executive overruled this House. Because we are implementing a new Constitution and our role is legislation and oversight besides representing our people, if we accept what the Executive wants, the exclusion of Cabinet 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.
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21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Secretaries sitting in this House answering questions, we will have eroded our power as a National Assembly and we will not have power. I think we debated and we could see deficiencies whenever the Chairmen of Committees were presenting answers because they were consulting and it was not forthcoming. So, the decision we arrived at to make the new Standing Orders was after a lot of soul searching and a lot of consultation. It was the best thing to do. If I may ask now that the President has requested for a stay of these new Standing Orders, how long ...
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