George Gitonga Murugara

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 491 to 500 of 828.

• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: institutions and universities, we may be talking about mass education. But we have to lay emphasis on quality education. This is the reason the Government must allocate enough resources to take care of infrastructure in terms of school equipment, learning schemes, books, desks, laptops and other learning facilities. Our county governments must also emphasise on Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) by building appropriate classrooms, furnishing them and ensuring children in nursery schools have sufficient learning materials. We also have another facility emphasised by the Government through the Ministry of Energy that all schools must have electricity for purposes of learning. ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: With that, I support this important Motion. Let us develop it into a Bill, so that we can actualise our thoughts in this House. I support. view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: It is the one. view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to add my voice to this very important discussion this evening with regards to the action taken by the National Treasury of reducing allocations to arms of the Government in what they are referring to as posterity measures. view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The Leader of the Majority Party tried to trash the order made by the court with regards to the memorandum issued on 24th September 2019. The order that has been supplied to some of us appears to be under a constitutional reference as a petition. In actual fact, in my view, the person who went to court should have gone for judicial review. So, we would have orders of subjurary removing this memorandum from the court and get an order cushioning the same. This notwithstanding, I think legalising and trying to go into technicalities are taken care of by Article ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Most important is the argument that was advanced by the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. He said that the directive of 24th September 2019 is merely a memorandum that has no force and should be treated with the contempt it deserves. Unfortunately, I agree with the Member for Rarieda and the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that this directive is being enforced because the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Executive, and more so, the National Treasury has a mechanism of enforcing directives and we have made reference to IFMIS. view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Therefore, if it remains as it is, it will simply be enforced. The Judiciary will not get the money it needs to discharge its functions and the same will extend to this august House, which is supposed to do the functions given to us by the Constitution as one of the Houses of Parliament. So, where do we go? Absolutely, the Judiciary is right. A drowning person clings to a straw. Therefore, since there are laws which protect the Judiciary and its funds, this order is valid and if the National Treasury, which is the first respondents, deem it not ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: This House is supposed to pronounce itself since it is the budget-making authority in the country once we make allocations under the Finance Act and Appropriations Act. They need to bring amendments to us because we are the ones who make laws. It is only Parliament that can repeal these laws or amend them as necessary. Finally, and most importantly, we must also go to the Judiciary. We have been informed that there is some sort of go slow or some attempt to ensure that justice is not dispensed because of a memorandum dated 24th September 2019. We do not ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: With those remarks, we seek that you guide us because we think this memorandum is outside the powers of the Treasury. Thank you. view