George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5261 to 5270 of 6087.

• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I never do this, but I have just received a message from some young person from Awendo Constituency which I want to read to the House so that we get the perspective of this matter. This is what Evans Chunga from Awendo is telling me today. He says:- “Kenya is a nation built through sacrifice by brave men and women who put the country before self. I urge all Members, including you, to perform their duty and support the IEBC Report.” This is important to me because I know Evans Chunga. Among those people ... view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I never do this, but I have just received a message from some young person from Awendo Constituency which I want to read to the House so that we get the perspective of this matter. This is what Evans Chunga from Awendo is telling me today. He says:- “Kenya is a nation built through sacrifice by brave men and women who put the country before self. I urge all Members, including you, to perform their duty and support the IEBC Report.” This is important to me because I know Evans Chunga. Among those people ... view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: to thank those Kenyans who put their lives on the line from the days of Independence for us to have proper electoral reforms. view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: to thank those Kenyans who put their lives on the line from the days of Independence for us to have proper electoral reforms. view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Let me also congratulate the team that went to negotiations when we were at war in our over democratisation process. It has been said, and it bears no repeating that at negotiations, you give as much as you take so that the position we have is not the position the ruling Coalition wholly wanted. The position we want is not the position that the CORD) preferred, but it is the best position for the country. Let me thank that team for putting the interest of the nation ahead. Before I go to something else let me congratulate and thank the ... view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Let me also congratulate the team that went to negotiations when we were at war in our over democratisation process. It has been said, and it bears no repeating that at negotiations, you give as much as you take so that the position we have is not the position the ruling Coalition wholly wanted. The position we want is not the position that the CORD) preferred, but it is the best position for the country. Let me thank that team for putting the interest of the nation ahead. Before I go to something else let me congratulate and thank the ... view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: declared in Kenya by the IEBC at the national tallying centre in Bomas of Kenya or the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) after a seven-day period are merely provisional. By these proposals, we are saying that the results, as shall be declared by the Constituency Returning Officers, will be treated not as provisional results but as final results, which everybody can move by. So, there are fundamental departures. Let me say, as a lawyer that I have a fundamental problem with the proposals being made about how we are to compose the new commission and the process of going through ... view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: declared in Kenya by the IEBC at the national tallying centre in Bomas of Kenya or the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) after a seven-day period are merely provisional. By these proposals, we are saying that the results, as shall be declared by the Constituency Returning Officers, will be treated not as provisional results but as final results, which everybody can move by. So, there are fundamental departures. Let me say, as a lawyer that I have a fundamental problem with the proposals being made about how we are to compose the new commission and the process of going through ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is usually normal that we pass mediated versions of the Bills coming from Mediation Committees without contestations. But I am grateful for this opportunity to draw the Members’ attention to what is in Clause 9. That is the disqualifying factors to membership of a board particularly as proposed in the proposed new Clause (3A) (a) and (c). What is being said here is that if you were once convicted of a criminal offence for a term exceeding six months without the option of a fine, you cannot serve in that particular board. There ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The idea of a conviction is a determination by a judicial officer. You have seen those matters through appellate processes and you have seen them through debates and articles. Many view