George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4911 to 4920 of 6196.

• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: On this, I beg to agree. What we have is not the Bill which was transacted in the Senate with whatever defects the procedures leading to it would have treated. The distinction I am making is that what we have now is a mediated version of the Bill. That now requires me to make the second point I wanted to make. Article 93(1) of the Constitution establishes Parliament of Kenya with two Houses. These are two equal Houses which are given distinct and separate mandates as we know under Articles 95 and 96. It is not contemplated, in my respectful ... view
• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: This is a short one. I sat in this Mediation Committee and I thought it would be useful… view
• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: When this Bill was transacted, the House recommended various amendments to the Bill from the Senate. A Mediation Committee was then established. My view is that if you look at the provisions in the Constitution relating to a Mediation Committee in Articles 112 and 113 against Article 123 that the Leader of the Majority Party is speaking to, it is not defined how voting should take place in the Mediation Committee. In this respect, all our amendments as the National Assembly were agreed to in the Mediation Committee. I request we go to the business. The electronic version of the ... view
• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: The House has passed a resolution on the second part by waiving charges payable by persons who are under mandatory quarantine, excluding those isolated due to violation of social distancing and curfew requirements meaning we are giving powers to those who enforce curfew to send people to remand. That part is a function of the court. We should say that in principle. That is outrightly unlawful that anybody in quarantine should not pay… view
• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: We have just passed this resolution… view
• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: There is an illegality in that resolution. view
• 4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for granting me the opportunity to address this matter. Let me start by thanking the Chair of the National Assembly Select Committee on NG-CDF for tabling and moving this Motion for approval. Hon. Speaker, Homa Bay Town Constituency is among the constituencies whose members of the NG-CDF Committee are being approved by this House. If the House chooses at the end – the delay in presentation of these names and their approval by the House is undermining the necessary works in our constituencies across the country. I am emphasizing this because we know that with COVID-19’s ... view
• 4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: In a constituency like mine, things are very difficult. Pending this approval, the outgoing NG-CDF committee is actually not doing anything because of the financial risks and those other measures we take to ensure that these funds are kept securely. If these committees are gazetted – may I also inform the National Assembly Select Committee on NG-CDF, that there are a lot of administrative bottlenecks being put through circulars and memoranda coming from the Board to fund account managers down at the constituency level. I have had occasions where funding has gone to the project itself. For instance, in Homa ... view
• 4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: to have people from Nairobi, who simply do some paper work and access money, taking the money, yet the people doing the actual work are the village boys who are trained in our various technical training institutes down there. I suggest to the Committee that it considers this as we approve these NG-CDF Committees for the various constituencies. If money is down there and the PMC can get a local person who is good at the work approved by the community, let him do the work and let money be given to him in phases instead of having this idea ... view