Humphrey Kimani Njuguna

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• 23 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Motion. This country has undergone substantial reforms in law, institutions and policy. The climax of it all was the promulgation of the new Constitution. In overhauling our old Constitution, we brought forward new institutions and policies, and we thought we had found the answers to the many questions that we had. This Motion talks about national values and principles. It looks like we are admitting that you can have reforms in law, institutions and policy, but still lack answers. We need to have a clear meaning of ‘national values ... view
• 23 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: out your duties, as a public servant, there should be a measure of patriotism, inclusivity, public participation and democratic ideals. If you do not believe in those values, even if you have the law and you reform institutions, you cannot deliver. Devolution has been realised in this country, but to what extent has it delivered the desired ideals or objectives? We are saying that we have a problem in the implementation of devolution because the idea was to devolve resources to the grassroots, but have we done that? Communities should not say that they are marginalised because public resources have ... view
• 23 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: I think the Leadership and Integrity Act 2012 should be repealed and we come up with a new law that will implement Chapter Six of the Constitution without fear or favour. The problem is not the absence of the law or the ideals in the law. We have had substantial reforms in law, institutions and policy, but the problem is leadership as expected in Chapter Six of our Constitution. I think for us to realise the national values and principles as per the spirit of the Constitution, we should revisit Chapter Six and implement that chapter without fear or favour. ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Motion. I thank the Chairman for giving me this one minute because part of my profession is land economics where we talk about repair and maintenance of buildings. So, this is something I have come across in my profession for the many years I have practised land economics in this country. In a nutshell, maintenance and repair of buildings is very crucial. We have periodic and regular maintenance. What is lacking in this country is perhaps planned periodic maintenance. A building has a 50 years’ lifespan. In fact, a building which ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would have wanted more time, but let me support the Motion and say that there is the realisation that we have slums in this country. For that reason, we are talking about upgrading the current slums and preventing more slums from coming up. Both of these issues are important. Why are we upgrading slums? Like the Chairman said, these are informal settlements. It is important to interrogate what we mean by “informal settlements” because it is now a social-economic right in our Constitution for every Kenyan to have decent housing. Slum dwellers do ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to make my contributions to this very important Bill. We are talking about allocating Kshs1.5 trillion between the national Government and the county governments in line with our Constitution. This is not little money. It is not Kshs1.5 million; it is Kshs1.5 trillion. It is money that can determine a lot in terms of economic growth and development in this country. I suppose all of us are in support of this Bill but, the fundamental question we are raising is in terms of implementation. All Kenyans have this question. This country ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: of development. We are still talking about frustrations that we are going through at the county governments; frustrations that we are going through as a country in terms of corruption. In terms of the impact in development countrywide, we have a lot of questions. We cannot hide ourselves in the sand. I still remember this Parliament gave Kshs80 million to audit the new Constitution. We need to do a serious monitoring and evaluation so that we can see whether the intended objectives have been achieved. There is the issue of the money that is going to wastage. Out of this ... view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to contribute to this Bill. This is because it touches on very core issues in this country. This is because we are talking about privatising of public assets. We are also in an area where we can interrogate the achievements we have made so far. This is because privatisation started some decades ago. I was reading in the newspapers today that Kenya is one of the countries at the rock- bottom in terms of scores. As a country, we are being judged very harshly by Transparent International in terms of corruption. We ... view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to contribute to this Bill. This is because it touches on very core issues in this country. This is because we are talking about privatising of public assets. We are also in an area where we can interrogate the achievements we have made so far. This is because privatisation started some decades ago. I was reading in the newspapers today that Kenya is one of the countries at the rock- bottom in terms of scores. As a country, we are being judged very harshly by Transparent International in terms of corruption. We ... view
• 26 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: 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