George Peter Opondo Kaluma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 6031 to 6040 of 6087.

• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, if I may say something, in the context of the processes and the thinking that needs to go through the Standing Orders, these matters came to the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee and, indeed, we met the Registrar of Political Parties. It was clear to us what the minimum ought to be, but when the matter went to the Budget and Appropriations Committee and not all of us sit there, the report we got was that the amount that was initially proposed was left at that. It is also something to look at in terms of the ... view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: I wanted to suggest to the House, borrowing from what hon. Namwamba has proposed, that there is need for chairs of all committees, and I do not know how we will make it possible in our Standing Orders, ought to sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee, so that the thinking base of the Departmental Committees goes to that Budget and Appropriations process. That is the difficulty that we faced. We were alive to these realities and we proposed them. The Budget and Appropriations Committee dealt with the money proposed by the Treasury and proceeded to allocate it though being ... view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. There appears to be consensus in the House in supporting this particular Motion. I only need to add something by way of jogging the memory of the House. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Sometime in 2000, there was a popular Act in the finance sector which would have brought a huge benefit to the nation. That was the famous “Donde Act”. That Act was merely killed because the date of commencement was stated to begin one year before the Act was legislated. Of course, the House will remember how much has gone into prohibiting that important law from becoming operational. I know we are making efforts to get it back. There has been more than one attempt to get that Act in place. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: I wanted to remind hon. Members about that fact. I want to support this Motion and urge the membership in this House that we risk crushing the entire Act if we do not agree on the amendment being sought here. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: There could be issues with the parent legislation and this was the problem when, as lawyers, we were looking at it, which I regret having participated in killing it. I think we are thinking on how we can reintroduce that Bill. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: In terms of the previous legislation, there was no single provision which had a problem. It was just the date of commencement. My thinking is that we support this and we extend the period so that we properly operationalize the Act. In terms of the substance of the Act, we can sit as a House through the relevant committees, processes or as individuals and we see what amendments we need to make so that we have a properly functioning Act and a law that serves our people well. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, there is something as I end my contribution that confuses me. In our developing nation those functions which have been taken down to the county government are exclusively functions of the county government. There is no level at which the national Government should intervene. It is something that we also need to begin thinking about very seriously. This is particularly in context of an important Bill or statute like this. There are some functions which we need to begin engaging in. If you left all of them, going by the nascent state of the county government structures ... view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: There is a very good reason why there is a county government and a county assembly. There is a reason why we are Members of the National Assembly. We take into account the interest of the entire nation. As the Speaker rightly says, I would not believe that there is any limitation to our legislative mandate. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: We read and re-read our Constitution and slept over it. I do not think there is anybody who is saying that the hands of this important national institution--- I know that view