George Gitonga Murugara

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Here I am. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am in the House. I rise to support the Petition to County Assemblies (Procedure) Bill, 2018. It is a Bill that is emanating from the Senate to this House for the sole purpose of ensuring that county assemblies have a procedure of introducing petitions on the Floor of the House and those petitions are referred to the relevant committees to be acted upon. I have gone through the Bill. The procedure that the county assemblies are adopting is the one we use in this House to ensure that petitions - whether by ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to ask Question No.454/2019 to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Forestry: What measures has the Ministry put in place to curb illegal water tapping, canalling and other diverting acts by residents living upstream of the main rivers that flow through Tharaka Constituency? view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I ask Question No.434 of 2019 directed to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: (i) What measures have been put in place to resolve the inordinate delay in the release of electrification construction materials imported into the country by Kenya Power Company’s 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
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: contractors due to the National Treasury’s delays in issuing duty-free permits for the release of the said materials at the Port of Mombasa? view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: (ii) What steps is the Ministry taking to avert a similar crisis in future which may negatively affect rural electrification initiatives? view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to contribute to this Bill with a reservation on the proposed penalties. In as much as the Bill is timely, it is one that we need to debate and improve on, and where necessary, make amendments that will suite our circumstances. We must ensure that this House will pass a law that is in consonance with our legislative system in the country and what happens in other countries, especially those that subscribe to the Commonwealth form of legislation. The principles in sentencing are such that the court is given discretion. That is ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: to exercise discretion depending on circumstances and gravity of the offence, so that the sentence that is meted out is commensurate with the offence that has been committed. We seem to be taking away that discretion and that is why I will oppose this law unless we amend it at the Committee of the whole House stage to come up with what we will consider to be stiffer penalties, but anchored in our laws. Hon. Ndindi Nyoro is right to argue passionately that we must combat corruption at all costs. I agree with that 100 per cent. Corruption is a ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Kshs1 billion, which means we have accommodated everybody including a police officer who takes Kshs50 on the road and is convicted and fined Kshs100 or Kshs1,000. For that other fellow convicted of corruption of Kshs500 million, we still have room to tell him to pay a fine of Kshs1 billion. With those reasons, my position is that this Bill is very timely. It is one that we must all agree to. However, I oppose the process of sentencing. That is where we go wrong. We must give our courts discretion. We must always allow the courts to listen to mitigation ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second this very important Motion that is very timely and has come to us in the furtherance of the war that we have against corruption. I do associate myself with the remarks of the Mover of the Motion, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. He has ably expounded on what exactly this Treaty is all about and what we, as a House of Parliament in Kenya, are seeking to do regarding an international agreement which we have ratified. It is important to note that once we ... view