George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4921 to 4930 of 6196.

• 4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I have previously appeared before the National Assembly Select Committee on the matter of non-payment of members of the COC, but nothing happened. What I am saying is that the members of the COC perform an important role. It is a body created by an Act of Parliament. It cannot be contemplated that they can duly oversee PMCs when no coin at all is being paid to them. We must make these changes as we approve these committees. Hon. Speaker, I believe the good and able Chair will take up these matters. Thank you. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: On a point of information! view
• 2 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Hon. Maanzo has debated with the assumption that no such committee has been formed anywhere across the world. I wanted to inform him as my learned friend that, in the United Kingdom, there is the Corona Virus Act 2020 that has facilitated the fight, through the Houses of Parliament, and through an ad hoc Committee. That is the situation in the USA, Canada and Australia. In fact, in the larger economies, including Italy, where parliaments have had to intervene, they did so through parliamentary ad hoc committees. Because of the cross-cutting nature of the Coronavirus issue, ... view
• 6 May 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 May 2020 in National Assembly: I thank my Minority Whip in whom I have utmost respect. view
• 6 May 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 May 2020 in National Assembly: This is a short one. I sat in this Mediation Committee and I thought it would be useful… view
• 6 May 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 May 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 May 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