George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I am on a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Is the hon. Majority Leader in order to say that the governors are doing nothing when he should be the one forcing them to do it? Is he confirming to his people that he is not doing his work? view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to address this important Motion. May I start by clarifying an issue the House seems to be mulling over; a number of hon. Members are saying that our role as hon. Members is merely to legislate and oversee. Possibly, yes, but the greatest role we have is to represent our people. I do believe, as representative of the people, be it hon. Members representing counties, our lady hon. Members or us hon. Members representing constituencies, we should get involved. We are permitted to handle these funds. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the creation of county development boards, but I will support it with amendments. What I will be asking my colleagues is how we will deal with the issue of amendments under Articles 112 and 113 of the Constitution. Hon. Members should begin looking at those articles. I remember the substantive Speaker spoke on this. There is need for a forum where all leaders elected or appointed by the national Government and at the county level can sit together and exchange views on how best to develop. We have devolution at the county level and ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in our county we work well with the governor. I know some people are asking, “must you legislate for leaders to meet?” In Homa Bay County, we regularly meet our governor and, indeed, we agree on these issues. But from the stories we hear, the situation is different in most counties. It is impossible for a governor to meet all elected leaders. Therefore, this forum is necessary because it will ensure equity in development. We need to harmonize development. We need to harmonise the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) and the County Development Fund. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is an issue I want to draw the attention of hon. Members to. If you look at the issue of ward development boards, why should a governor, senator, County Women Representative or Member of Parliament want to sit there? We are micromanaging things and this should not be the case. If you go to the issues of the sub-county development boards, essentially--- If we are not careful, we will kill the CDF Committee. Remember those people were elected by people and they are dully gazzeted by the Government. Either way, whether we are opposing or ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, without much ado, I wanted to draw your attention to the provisions of Article 112 of the Constitution. This is an ordinary Bill coming from the Senate to this House as indeed; a Bill could go from this House to the Senate. Let us look at the procedures under those provisions and let us make a wise decision on the matter. It 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
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: is not enough to say that this thing is unconstitutional. Remember you are saying it is unconstitutional and we are saying the Constitution already enables us to represent our people, including in development matters. Remember those other issues that I may not talk about now. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: You will, of course, frustrate our parties’ development if we approach it this way. Remember that Article 112 gives us two options. We may reject this Bill. If we reject it, automatically, each House will appoint their number of Members to be in the Mediation Committee. Amongst the role of the Mediation Committee is then to come up with a version of the Bill which is acceptable to both Houses. That may be one way we may need to think about in terms of how to ensure the amendment is acceptable. The other way, of course, is to make the ... view
• 4 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am standing on a point of information. The judgment being read by hon. (Maj-Gen.) Nkaissery is one of the documents which were placed before us. But what was said in the judgment was that the Selection Panel should consider enlisting and considering amongst the people, Erick Ogwang, Lempaa and others. What happened is that the Selection Panel, indeed, considered those individuals, they were interviewed and I think the document that the good General lacks is the one that accorded them the score sheets. In those score sheets Mr. Lempaa was at position 11. They picked the top ... view