George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5501 to 5510 of 6087.

• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: ( Inaudible ) view
• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Matters of democracy are very close to my heart. Before I contribute, my point of order was an issue of concern. The entire country knows that the ODM is, indeed, the biggest party in the House and a beneficiary of this Fund. Could the hon. Member, who is a Member of this great party, be right to say he does not know how the funds committed to the party are used? Is he blaming that on the party or his indolence in failing to go to the ODM headquarters to know ... view
• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, he is casting aspersions in relation to accountability by the greatest party on the land because of his own indolence. 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
• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Kenya is a multi-party democracy and the people of Kenya have made that deliberate choice. There is a good reason as to why we decided that parties be funded using taxpayer’s money; they must meet particular criteria and parameters. We had a situation in this country where parties were being formed and run using a briefcase; you only heard of them during election time. Then we said we would be committing the funds of this country only to supporting political parties which contribute to the democratization of this country. That is why thresholds ... view
• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: amendment that will be tenable in terms of nurturing our democracy as opposed to saying that every small party formed out there by Kaluma and Kaluma manages to come to this House should be given public funding. That is my thinking. Because of shortness of time, I see the anxiety of fellow Members in the House. You remember that in our National Assembly, we have only one party leader, Hon. Hassan Osman. He is anxious. I do not want to go so much deep into it. I wanted to request that we think soberly about this thing, and how we ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I wanted to request that while the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security deals with the matter, we deal with it in the context of the entire nation instead of having to repeat this petition. In some of our constituencies, we have chiefs who have to move for over 30 kilometres to cover a location. So, the issue of the locations, their sizes and population would--- Motorbikes and all those issues should be addressed. So that we utilise time well, could we deal with this thing at once; in which case we could be ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to address this matter. This is a matter which has exercised my mind as a lawyer for some time. I want to request that we remember that ours is a presidential system. Properly speaking, neither of us is in Government nor the Opposition. In fact, there is a good reason as to why the people of Kenya decided it so. There is a good reason as to why His Excellency the President and the Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) no longer sit in the House. The idea is that we will be more liberal ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: under Article 115 at Clause 11A. It is not just a sub-clause. The President is proposing whole new provisions entirely unconnected to what has already gone through the parliamentary processes to the point of it being presented to him. As you define ‘reservations’, I wish to alert the House that when you do a Bill, there is usually what we call the ‘mischief rule’, the intention of the law. It may be captured by just one provision. How much can the President - and I know you will rule on this - propose in terms of new provisions to a ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, as you consider that, may we be reminded, and this is the last consideration I would beg your Chair to think about very deeply, for us, as a Parliament, to disagree with the President in the reservations, strictly so-called, we need two-thirds. That can only happen if we debate the Bill. That invites another fundamental question. What should the quorum be for debating, from the very beginning, Presidential Memoranda, reservations or references to the House? Because, really, if you need two- thirds to alter it - and by the way, you can only debate to alter, affirm ... view