G.J. Munuve Mati

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 235.

• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Well, we are a House, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. When we are a House, we can interact and talk about ourselves. I am only giving an example which is a legitimate intellectual way of proving your point. view
• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Okay. If you want me to give my own, I will give an example. I sit in this House because the people of Mwingi North refused to have imposed candidates. I beat my nearest rival by 8,000 votes. My nearest rival had 3,000 votes and I had 11,000 votes. However, nothing stopped the person with the 3,000 votes from getting the certificate. I am only here because the people of Mwingi North Constituency demonstrated and objected to my being removed from being the candidate for my party. Of course, when the candidate with 3,000 voters went to another party, I ... view
• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: As a matter of fact, if you check most of these political parties, you will see that their offices are owned by the political party leader. That means that that political party leader can even deny access to offices where you cannot even plead your case because the office or residence where political party is domiciled is a personal property of a particular person. If we subscribe to democracy and want to grow it in this country, before we start comparing ourselves with the USA which has had 200 years of democracy; before we start comparing ourselves with the UK ... view
• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. From the outset I would like to oppose the Motion. I oppose from a very strong position of knowledge. Prof. Kaimenyi and I were appointed by former President Kibaki as Vice-Chairman and Chairman respectively of the Water Services Trust Fund (WSTF). view
• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: I had to disclose so that what I say can be judged against that background. I happen to know more about Prof. Kaimenyi than a lot of you do. I was the Chairman of the WSTF and he was my Vice-Chairman for two or three years, from 2005 to 2007. From the outset, Prof. Kaimenyi is a doer. He is a person who believes in achieving. He may not be very good in terms of pleasing people, but he is a person who sets goals and achieves them. That is why he is a professor and some of us are ... view
• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Prof. Kaimenyi has been accused of arrogance and taking money for infrastructure for schools, when MPs in this House know very well that 60 per cent of our budget in the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) goes to infrastructure for schools. We pass the Budget in any case. How much money do we pass for infrastructure in terms of building secondary schools, nursery schools and colleges? That cannot be a crime that Prof. Kaimenyi has committed, otherwise every Member of Parliament (MP) would have a lot more money because Kaimenyi would be building all the primary and secondary schools. As we ... view
• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: that we have dealt with have changed, including the first one whom we tried to remove. They have changed from the time we tried one of them. No other CS has come this far in terms of being removed. We cannot accuse CS Kaimenyi of the problems in north eastern Kenya. We understand the problems in north eastern and empathise with the children there. However, as late as yesterday we lost 15 people in north eastern. Is CS Kaimenyi responsible for all these things? Have you assured CS Kaimenyi of the security of the teachers and not of the 15 ... view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I had the privilege to know Mama Grace Ogot and Kasanga Mulwa. Grace Ogot was a great fighter for freedom. I remember attending the United Nations (UN) General Assembly with her in 1997 in New York, at a time when Dr. Njoya had been badly beaten up at Uhuru Park while fighting for the second liberation. She stood firm at the General Assembly to condemn the act of beating up Njoya. As for hon. Justice Kasanga Mulwa, he was a great man. My last professional interaction with him was when he worked as the Chairman of ... view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I would also like to send my condolences to my people of Kamayaye who have lost four great sons in a grenade attack in Wajir in the last 24 hours. I have just come from Nairobi Hospital where the only survivor had spent--- view
• 10 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. On behalf of the people of Mwingi Constituency, myself and my family, I would like to extend my sincere condolences to the family of the late hon. Muchai and the people of Kabete Constituency. It is unfortunate that such a capable Member of this august House could die in cold blood. I hope and pray that this House and the relevant Committee will rethink very seriously on the security of Members of Parliament. I can see my brother, hon. Kamama nodding. He and I often exchange notes about the impact of small arms in the security ... view