George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am concluding. I was telling this House that, as the National Assembly, we need to move together with the country. Indeed, if we are a true National Assembly, we should begin taking our work very seriously. There is a programme on television which has been catching my attention recently called “ Ungwana au Ushenzi”. Any time I sit in this House, when we debate some things, I see a lot of that programme within us, particularly the latter part. We need to begin thinking about where this county is going. We need to take our place ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, hon. Speaker. I have a Personal Statement regarding how we handle sensitive security information. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: I stand directed, hon. Speaker. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I am one Member of the CORD coalition who was in the House when His Excellency the President gave his Speech. I thought there were serious issues of governance to address in this debate rather clouding these issues with irrelevancies like addressing our First Lady as a mere wife of an ordinary person. We want to keep this debate to non-trivial issues. There was a lot to learn from the President’s Speech. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am invoking the rule of irrelevance. When he starts talking of toilets, the wife of the President and such matters, he borders on irrelevances. There is nothing like the wife of Uhuru Kenyatta. We have the First Lady. We need to address this matter very seriously. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. Is the indomitable Leader of Majority Party in the House right to mislead the House that the report of the Commission of Inquiry into Post Election Violence, which was chaired by Justice Waki, was required by law to be handed over to the President when we know that the Commission was established under the National Accord and Reconciliation Act and the President did not, in fact, appoint the Commission? If possible, we should avoid misleading the House on such matters. May he retract his statement? view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. In 2008, it is a fact that Kenya sunk very low. So many Kenyans were killed by fellow Kenyans. In my own Homa Bay Town Constituency, several people that I know, and I can name cousins like the son of Opondo Konde, were shot by police officers and buried with bullets in their bodies. Nobody is talking about their compensation to date. I expected the Address of His Excellency the President in his special address to this Assembly to take more time on the plight of the victims than on legal ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: I looked back when His Excellency the President came back and I was holding my breath for the worst not to happen. I do not know where the country would have been if the possibilities I contemplated at the time were ever to happen. Let our security advisors around the Presidency know that they are now the President and the Deputy President of the country, whether we voted for them or not and their safety is of utmost importance. I was surprised when the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Interior and Co- ordination of National Government sent a letter which ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this matter is so serious that it requires a bit of time for us, as hon. Members, to speak to. The Constitution requires us, as Members of Parliament, to deliberate on and, of course, resolve issues of concern to our people. If I may tell my colleagues what necessitates our interventions by way of what I call “fundraisers”, the best school in my constituency is Homa Bay High School. In the last one month, three dormitories were burnt down. In fact, Form Two and Form Three students have been away. They have not even sat for their end-year ... view