George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have two issues to raise. Six weeks ago, I raised an issue concerning interdiction of a number of teachers across the country for heading the call by their trade unions to participate in industrial action. If you may remember, the Committee Chairperson was given two weeks to respond. He came here and said that a response came from the Ministry, but it was inadequate. Again, they undertook that within two weeks, they will get an adequate response. To date, there is no response from the Committee Chairperson on that request for a Statement. It is ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: A ranking Member, Hon. Odanga, is telling us the same thing that the Chair of the Committee said a month ago. It appears that this Committee routinely requests for two weeks. Could we be assured that this time round, it will be available within two weeks? Hon. Speaker, we do not ask these Questions for ourselves. We ask them for the interest of the entire nation. It beats the purpose of seeking Parliamentary intervention through Questions if they take eternity to respond to them. Could the Hon. Speaker give a shorter period or have a firm direction that within the ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to seek your clarification and guidance on a matter of grave public importance. I draw the attention of the Speaker for your interpretative and clear directions on the provisions of Article 95 of the Constitution. Article 95 (4) says that the power to budget and appropriate funds for the national Government is vested in this House as the House of Representatives. Under Article 173, the Constitution, in securing the financial independence of the Judiciary, establishes the Judiciary Fund. In other provisions of Article 173, Parliament was obligated by the people of Kenya to enact ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I am saying this because when I heard of this proposed reduction of the Budget, I treated this as a reduction because I know in law and under Article 95 of the Constitution, only this House can reduce the Budget and make that determination. Hon. Speaker, because this is a matter of grave national concern, for posterity and precedent, I am requesting you to issue a 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: ruling that will not only re-state the law but will also importantly assert the budgeting authority of this Parliament. If there are measures which have been taken to interfere with that, we should get clarity on them. This Parliament does not act in vain. We budgeted the funds. The Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs will confirm how much we had to reduce. Even most of the development budgets of the Judiciary in terms of our courts across the country were suspended. If we, as Parliament, went ahead and passed the Judiciary Fund Act and assisted ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Speaker for allowing me to raise this matter. view
• 29 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, let me thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify this matter again. I am happy that Hon. Didmus now confirms the sub-committees exist. He also confirms that he is in my sub-committee. If you look at the deliberations during the Committee Sitting where the sub-committees were constituted, you will find that the direction - and the Chair of the Committee is here - was that each sub-committee should go and organise their leadership. We met and determined the leadership of the sub-committee dealing with Bills, petitions, request for statements and other things. I was made the ... view
• 29 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am happy at the confirmation that we met and agreed on the sub-committees. We created those sub-committees to help the Committee serve Parliament better. view
• 29 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The Chair will speak! Do not worry. Hon. Speaker, if you remember, there was a complaint that particularly Questions, Bills and other issues were delaying reporting before the House. The Chair in his wisdom brought the matter to the Committee so that the various Members could assist him do the work with the Committee. Those sub-committees were formed. The decision was that each sub-committee was to go and sit down. This is a new invention. It may be that we did not have the HANSARD and other things because it is not something that is properly facilitated already. However, we ... view
• 29 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The colleagues in that Committee. In fact, the initial idea was that because Hon. Didmus is most concerned about Parliamentary Question delays, he should chair the sub-committee. The decision to make me chair was only made because of the Bills. The other things we were saying were matters which merely require responses. The meeting at Hilton Garden Inn was not a meeting of the sub-committee. I remember I never said so. I said we met at Hilton Gardens Inn and the efficacy of the sub- committee dealing with Bills and others in which I was designated to be the Chair ... view