G.J. Munuve Mati

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: My constituency has people walking as far as 40 kilometres one way to get water. A borehole will cost about Kshs1million which is what it costs to keep a Member of Parliament here for a month. The 90 new Members of Parliament is equivalent to 90 new boreholes. If you divide that by five, it means about 16 water pans. I have very good friends and I was invited to the dance and dinner. I tried to go, but I did not manage. This matter is not only taking a gender dimension, but also a class dimension. The poor woman ... view
• 26 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: The women of this country have struggled very hard. I have been to almost every corner of this world and I have not seen many countries, especially the donors that push this agenda, pushing for this. I was in the United Kingdom (UK) for their elections. I have virtually been everywhere and have not seen any of those Governments pushing their own legislatures to increase the number of women in their parliaments. Let us look at the numbers right now. We have the highest number of women in this august House since Independence in 1963. Let us give accolades and ... view
• 26 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: the Kenyan people. This Parliament should not waste its time talking about giving 90 people some comfort. It should be talking about how we can get water to everybody. How do we give every Kenyan a right to access medical care? How do we make sure that every Kenyan has a right to education? I wish to very strongly advise the lobby to come up with an alternative Bill. Standing here and saying that we had a dance at the Intercontinental and a dinner at this place will not help us. With those few remarks, thank you for giving me ... view
• 25 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 25 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Yes. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank you most profusely for giving me this opportunity; an opportunity that gives me the chance to say one thing. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: What this honourable House has done today is something that has got us to where we have not been in the sense that it is a sad day. 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
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: It is a sad day because we have put the cart before the horse. We need very strong parties. I am a strong advocate of strong parties that have an ideological base, principles and well-defined rules of engagement. We are developing strong parties out of very weak structures because political parties in our Republic are institutions which, as I have termed before, are personal political parties (PPPs) and family political parties (FPPs). A party should adopt an ideological position that is shared by a population and not a family or an individual. It would have been better for us to ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Most obliged, Hon. Speaker. They should be represented by somebody who is elected by the majority of the people of Mwingi North. We have set a precedent and standard that could generate the opposite. However, there is one famous politician, my brother the Right Reverend Raila Odinga, a man I respect very much and who has been my friend for over 30 years, who once said in the last election that kunafarasi wawili na wengine ni punda . As a matter of fact, I want to add that there is also a mule and a poodle. Kuna farasi wawili, punda, ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I stand corrected. I was just quoting and expounding what my brother had talked about, farasi wawili na punda moja. I was only quoting him. As we go into elections, we should be prepared to accept the verdict of the elections. view