George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am going to be very brief to allow colleagues time to say something. I was saying I join issues with colleagues who have raised concerns about these multiple supplementary budgets and the lateness of these estimates, but I also join Members in supporting. Those aspects dealing with security came before the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security yesterday. Allow me to urge Members that there is the budget for security surveillance which is money being paid to the provider of that system. Just today there is a video of a person being robbed somewhere ... view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I, therefore, support and urge colleagues, for the sake of security, more so during this pandemic where people are being robbed in broad daylight, we need adequate measures around those issues to support this thing. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. Committees are structured in such a way that there is a chairperson and a vice- chairperson. In the absence of the chairperson, the vice-chairperson can carry out duties of the chairperson within that committee. So, Kenyans should know that even if a chairperson is not on a committee anymore, the committee is still continuing with its work. The Standing Orders contemplate a situation where the chairperson may not be there and the vice-chairperson then takes over. That is why there is a quorum for committees. The absence of one member ... view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to add my voice to this matter. Your ruling is coming at a time when I see two challenges. It is a very good and detailed ruling which balances rights in terms of parliamentary actions and representation. May I beg the top leadership… view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: They are in deeper consultations. I see two challenges. One is that we are in a situation where Members of Parliament who are in either smaller parties or Independent negotiated their positions in the committees through the Majority and the Minority parties initially. I do not know how that would be dealt with now that you embargo the Majority and the Minority parties. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. It is only today when I knew that Hon. Murugara is not a Member of the Jubilee Party. I just got to know of it today. ... view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: things we would want Parliament, through the Minority and Majority parties, to oversee. I do not think we would be furthering parliamentary democracy if we approach it that way, with our state of growth as a country. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have a problem. I have been here since morning listening to my colleagues lamenting about what ought to have been there and what the CS - when he addresses this House as a mere formality - should add to the Budget items. There is a good reason as to why the people of Kenya say in Articles 95 and 96 of the Constitution, that the budgeting authority of the nation is in Parliament. I am saying this, pained that this is the eighth year with that constitutional provision, ... view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we must sit as Parliament, even after this Budget, and see how we can remove those restrictions in laws, which have taken away the power given to Parliament by the Constitution on a Budget. In that law, and I am happy that in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, we have formed a sub-committee which I am heading, to see these laws that we can unlock so that the meaning that the people of Kenya had in Article 95 of the Constitution in saying that we budget, is really meaningful. There is a good ... view
• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, under the Constitution, there are Bills which can only originate from the National Assembly and there are Bills which can originate in either House. In respect of these two Bills, they originated from the Senate and communication on them came under the Constitution and the Standing Orders of the National Assembly. The National Assembly processed these Bills from the First Reading to the Third Reading. The National Assembly proffered amendments to the versions of the Bills which came from the Senate. If, indeed, this House were to be mandated to interrogate whether a Bill coming from the ... view
• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I thank my Minority Whip in whom I have utmost respect. view