Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: a degree called “being around.” Is the Member in order to mislead this House that there is such a degree in our public or private Universities? view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill and congratulate the Mover, Hon. Priscilla Nyokabi, who has remained true to her calling, and also pass the sentiments of Hon. Millie Odhiambo who says that she has been very supportive of this for quite a long time. Those of us who have a civil society background have an agenda to continue to advance which made us to come to this august House for the interest of Kenyans. The other issue on this Bill under Clause 29 is timelines. If you look at an information access officer, you ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: information and then you are told that they need to look for that information through another public entity “B”, it will take more than 10 days. We need to look at those timelines. view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: I must commend the Mover because there is a very elaborate procedure in terms of how you can access information. You apply to this public entity and if that fails, then you have recourse with regard to the timelines provided and further to the Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ). If you do not get any recourse from the CAJ, then you can go to the High Court. That is very commendable because it is very clear. However, we may need to tighten that procedure, so that by itself, it does occasion red tape that compromises, for example, the urgency with ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: We have also been treated to a very interesting scenario where the Commission Chair has written to the President asking that the PS, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries be sacked. Ministries, Departments and Agencies seem not to be responding to requests from the CAJ to provide information on why they are not taking certain actions to accrue benefit to service delivery to the public. We need to look at that. Now that we are giving them new powers, we need to also ask ourselves whether we also need to ensure that they get more funding through Parliament, so that ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: The other issue is the fact that the cost of investigation, if indeed, a public officer has refused to perform his or her duty, is borne by the CAJ. They are supposed to do investigations at their own cost. I indulge the Mover of the Bill to look at this in cases where the CAJ says that they do not have money to investigate why a certain individual did not provide information as requested by an applicant. That is an issue that we need to look at under Clause 24. view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: The CS is supposed to report after or within two months. We need to reduce that time in terms of annual reports to Parliament. Instead of Ministries, Departments and Agencies reporting annually how they have been responding to applications for access to information, they should do it quarterly so that we can follow up. For example, in quarter one, we know the number of people who requested for information and whether it was expedited and provided. The other issue under Clause 6 is on national security. I want us to tighten that area because it seems to take on one ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: justification of what is public interest but let us not open it up too much so that when we do not have a very progressive regime or institution, they just fall back to that and say it is about national security, Kenyan economy and what have you. The other issue is about the edited information. What if somebody provides scanty information that seems to speak to the request but in a peripheral manner? We need to look at that provision of edited information so that it is not misused. Finally, there is an issue of county versus national Government. If ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. As parliamentarians and Kenyans, we need to imagine a better Kenya that is well planned, devoid of corruption, clean, safe and healthy. We should imagine a better Kenya that looks like those places we go to as Members of Parliament to benchmark, and we wonder whether we can have such countries. I remember we had a conversation sometime back. When people watch movies made in other countries, they ask: Was this place actually created like that? This is because it looks very different. They think things just happened. That ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: also those other shanty structures of Kenyans who are trying to eke out a living despite the challenges of the economy. County governments have engineers and planners who give approvals for such buildings without even visiting the site. They just collect money at the office. More often than not, they overcharge you, if you want your development plans to be done very quickly. Therefore, people are constructing houses for the sake of constructing. Kenyans seem to only be concerned about the room they get into. Outside the rooms, the buildings are not very appealing. That contributes to the aerial view ... view