George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am a very happy Member of the 11th Parliament. Each and every time this nation has been stuck with an issue requiring legislative intervention, for the past 20 years, it has been this Parliament to take the society out of it. We had the Companies Bill stuck with the lawyers out there and the business. In one blow you, I and other members of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs supported by this Parliament delivered the companies’ new law. We now rank very well in terms of the ease of business. ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: children and others. We sometimes step back but I believe we will push them forward. This is a matter which ought to have been sorted out by the 10th Parliament after the passing of the Constitution. It is a matter which ended up in our law courts. Do you imagine that the Supreme Court could not resolve this issue? The Supreme Court deferred back to these elected leaders. Let me tell the nation that we will give a solution today, not every time. I usually disagree with the Leader of the Majority Party on very many things. But, this is ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: You are an exception. You are in the 10 per cent. The larger majority are ladies who went back to their societies. What is the society telling us? It is saying they want to associate with people who know their problems from birth. People who can say they know the problem of water and how they have been working for it. People who can tell their people they know the boundaries and the problem of roads. I want to use this to urge Members particularly the great women elected to serve our country in this Parliament to go beyond just ... view
• 21 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Members seated here can see how Hon. Ngilu was fighting to be here! Can we have that decorum? Can we go out there to serve without where we came from? In as much as we can use law to socially engineer the society to think in one direction, could we encourage members of the society to change their thinking? Can we make our people to begin thinking and realising that a woman can lead invariably better than a man? I am looking forward where my daughter Caroline Andele can sit in this House, not through nomination, but as a person ... view
• 14 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. The title of the Speech of His Excellency the President was “The National Covenant.” In fact, it was the running theme throughout. How happy I was that it was so titled. It is reminding us as a people, as leaders and as a nation of those values we have always aspired for since Independence. It never went beyond that. What His Excellency the President was required to address the nation on is where we are as a nation in terms of compliance, our status and our standing with those national covenants. ... view
• 14 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: of resources of this country, both in terms of public service, how we use them around and how we equally share them. The state of the nation is not as rosy as was depicted in the speech. My hope is that His Excellency the President was talking more to those in his Government than to himself because, to me, he appears to mean well. When we criticise, do not think we are doing it for the sake of it. I believe we criticise positively. Forty tribes of this country feel excluded from this Government. I am speaking from great reality ... view
• 14 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of information. view
• 13 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the CDF regulations had left the CDF Committee. Remember, they had gone to the Attorney-General. Subsequently, we had a joint sitting with the Committee on Delegated Legislation. All the amendments Members desired were effected. I believe the regulations are now in the Office of Attorney-General for publication. That is what Members wanted to hear. 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
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: That also means that it has left our hands. It is now with the Attorney-General. I know what could be confusing people is how come the regulations have not come back to the House. Under the Statutory Instruments Act, the Delegated Legislation Committee will only bring them to the House upon gazettement. That is the stage Members need to hear. view