George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5811 to 5820 of 6087.

• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I agree to the guidance given by the Chair. When hon. (Maj-Gen.) Nkaissery raised the issue, I stood and questioned as part of the responses the Chair would bring on behalf of the Committee, the qualification requirements for chiefs. I remember, I did indicate that I have a similar problem in the most populous location in my constituency, Kalanya Kanyango Location, in which all major trading centres are. 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
• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: The services of the chief of that location have been discontinued on account of the fact that he has no Form Four certificate and therefore, we have a situation of insecurity. In fact, we are in a problem because this is a chief commended by the leadership of the Provincial Administration; from the County Commissioner downwards. Therefore, I am requesting that as the Committee goes back to consider the matter, I also be given an opportunity to appear before it so that all these issues can be resolved because I have looked at the relevant laws--- the law does not ... view
• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it is important to be notified of time. Sometimes it is hard for us to know the business of each Committee on each day. So, if I would be notified when they are discussing the matter, I would attend. view
• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, for the opportunity to contribute to this matter. I rise to support the amendment proposed by the Member for Sabatia. We know the composition of the National Police Service Commission and I am making this presentation on consideration of what is also proposed in Clause 8--- view
• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: The point I am making is that to increase the number in terms of quorum will be to disable the Commission from meeting to execute its mandate at all. There is no way we can know that when we move it to six, the three that hon. Gikaria is talking about will be there, if you add to the fact that there is a possibility they are going 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
• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: to hold only six meetings in a year. We are strangulating the Commission; it may not meet if we make the quorum so high. view
• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, a commission cannot by itself co-opt commissioners more so when we have in our laws the procedure through which you make people commissioners to this Commission or any other commission. It would be worse with regard to the fact that all commissioners including ex-officio members will be members. You will have a situation in which really you do not know the Commission proper. Even our work as Parliament in terms of vetting the commissioners will be duly undermined. Thank you. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to talk to this very important Motion. I am personally a very sad Member of Parliament who is also an officer of the court; this is a court we have been struggling, as Parliament, to facilitate to be reformed and stable so that it can work better. Remember when we undertook the national Budget process for this financial year even the budget for this very Parliament was reduced by hon. Members here seated. The budget which was proposed for the Judiciary was increased on our insistence. We were doing that for ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, what we are seeing is what a good professor and a person we respected very early in the legal profession called Professor H.W. Okoth Ogendo said before he died that: “The African continent is a beautiful continent with beautiful constitutions but without constitutionalism.” I said I am sad because the very body which should be leading the other organs of the Government in upholding constitutionalism is the very body that seems to be ignoring this. It appears, and I have been watching debates in the media and everywhere, that people appear to confuse the rule of law with ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: powers. They understood the parameters of the rule of law. They understood the need for space between the various organs of Government. Hon. Speaker, I want to confirm that I mourn the ascendancy of Prof. J.B. Ojwang to the Supreme Court, because what has become of our Public Law Division is a total loss to the jurisprudence of the great jurists of this country on the Bench, and the great lawyers of this country took a lot of time to develop it. I mean I have read so many cases. No organ of Government interferes in the internal workings or ... view