George Gitonga Murugara

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 751 to 760 of 828.

• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: All in all, the three nominees are qualified to sit in the Commission. It is a Commission that has been formed together with the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Commission on Gender Equality, but it has a peculiar niche in the administration of justice, in that it is the Commission where the simple Kenyan, the down trodden, the person who is likely to be offended by maladministration right from the village level right to the national level would go and complain. These are the people we want to charge with that responsibility of protecting ordinary Kenyans and of watching ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: It is, therefore, important for us to thank His Excellency the President for nominating these qualified persons. It is also important to thank him for nominating somebody who is deaf. It is a belief in the country that disability comes with inability. Far from the truth, as it has been explained, in the NLC sits a blind commissioner who has been doing a fantastic job. The gentleman, Washington Opiyo Sati, is deaf, but when we listened to him at the vetting and during cross-examination, we were satisfied that he would render the services the office of the ombudsman is supposed ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support the Report and support these persons be approved by the House for appointment by His Excellency the President. view
• 5 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I, the undersigned, on behalf of members of the Union of Kenya Civil Servants of Tharaka Nithi County draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT, Public Service Policy stipulates that public servants working in hardship areas are entitled to hardship allowances; THAT, in 1997, the then Minister for Education Gazetted Tharaka District as a hardship area following a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed between the Teachers Service Commission and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT); The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this ... view
• 5 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, in the year 2000, the Government reviewed all hardship areas and declared Tharaka District (as it then was) as one of the hardship areas, and that consequently, all public servants in Tharaka South and Tharaka North Districts (as they then were) were paid hardship allowances for two (2) months after which the hardship allowances were stopped and subsequently scrapped, no attendant reason was given for this; THAT, employees of the Judicial Service Commission and the Teachers Service Commission stationed in Tharaka South District (now Tharaka South Sub-County), Tharaka North District (now Tharaka North Sub-County) and IgambaNg’ombe Sub- County still ... view
• 28 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second the proposed amendment to the Report. It is vitally important that Kenyans appreciate that the EACC has investigative powers conferred and vested upon it by both the Constitution and the statute, namely, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act. There are some jitters every time it is mentioned that the EACC should be moving into some matter and most Kenyans suddenly become interested and try to use arguments like “EACC is not an investigative agency”. There have even been attempts to amend our law so that the EACC is removed as one of the ... view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: I, the undersigned, on behalf of the residents of Tharaka Constituency in Tharaka Nithi County draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT, the Wildlife (Conservation and Management) Act, 2013 contemplates formulation of innovative measures for mitigating human-wildlife conflict and compensating victims of human-wildlife conflict; THAT, in the year 1966 the Meru National Park was gazetted under the Legal Notice Number 4756 as a National Park; THAT, Tharaka Constituency borders Meru National Park to the North, with Ura River as the boundary view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to give my remarks on the State of the Nation Address by His Excellency the President, yesterday afternoon, when he visited the House of Parliament. In his Speech, His Excellency the President extolled the achievements of the country in the last six years. He emphasised on the pillars of development especially based on the Big Four Agenda of the country, which we are all eager and looking forward to realise, so that our country can actually achieve its development agenda. May I commend on one agenda which I felt needs some emphasis, ... view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Therefore, this is another area that has to be emphasised so that we are able to attract investors into the country, both local and external. We must, therefore, device a taxation system that is appealable to those who wish to invest in our country so that when they come to invest, they are certain of getting their returns and continue to invest more for the betterment of the country. Therefore, we have to look at policies like less taxation but efficient system of collecting taxes such that the Government also benefits from it. I also wish to commend on the ... view