Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 May 2022 in Senate: appointed by the appointing authority, in this new Constitution, the President, or through the Cabinet Secretary(CS). Those people do not really end up doing the work because those appointments end up becoming political for many politicians or people who are politically correct, and so, they do not resolve the issue. I had proposed in this Parliament nine new legislations. I received a text asking us to come here for Divisions. However, you can see that no Division is happening. There is no way we are going to pass these laws because we are short of quorum. Everybody is trying to ... view
• 10 May 2022 in Senate: However, before we proceed on the Sine Die recess, we need to dissuade ourselves from this practice of creating too many semi-autonomous Government agencies. This is because they continue to syphon resources out of Government. It is important if the counties can create their small agencies or if it can also be a Public Private Partnership (PPP) kind of thing, where you actually partner. This is because waste is money and it is financed by that kind of entrepreneurial spirit. view
• 10 May 2022 in Senate: I remember, sometimes back in one of the counties, I do not know whether it was Meru, where a governor was accused for using Kshs400 million to buy dustbins. Certainly, that is a lot money. I wonder whether they were being put in people’s homesteads. So then, you do not want to create a law that just creates a platform for people to syphon out the much needed public moneys in terms of development expenditure. Of course, it would be recurrent because you will have to recycle waste every other day. view
• 10 May 2022 in Senate: This Bill is good. It may not be very timely because I do not see it seeing the light of the day, to be very sincere, looking at the time that is remaining. In exactly about a month from now, we would be calling off the 12th Parliament. I do not see it advancing further. However, it is a good idea. It can be carried over to the next Parliament, so that then it is fine-tuned. We need to think of how we are going to re-create the model of making Bills in this country, so that those Bills are ... view
• 10 May 2022 in Senate: One of the Bills that I was bringing to the House, out of my nine Bills, was a sunset Bill. The aim of the Sunset Bill has been to put a definite timeline on how long a state agency must exist. It has been documented that you only need about 20 years to resolve a problem. This is so that then we retire such Bills after 20 years. Maybe after 10 years, such agencies can come for review, but only to see the progress made. This is so that then after 20 years, we do away with those so many ... view
• 10 May 2022 in Senate: However, that is not the idea we would like to have. In terms of progressive thinking, we need to re-look at this Bill and ensure that we add value to it. That is why the Senate is essentially a House of revision, so that then we do not just throw the baby with the bath water. view
• 10 May 2022 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 10 May 2022 in Senate: A lot has been canvassed. I hope that then in the new format of the Bill, it will just be an overarching enabling legislation. You need to custom make or rather delegate the legislative power to the county assembly. Each one of the counties would get a bigger picture from the mother Bill, but then custom-make it to suit their needs. This is because, even a good example was given just now on the Floor of the House, that where counties do not have a lot of waste, maybe there is limited development. We do not want to say the ... view
• 10 May 2022 in Senate: Of course, waste management cannot be removed from physical planning. Again, that is also very important because it is not just a question of bottles of sanitizers that are all over here, but also in terms of storm water. How does it go all the way and clog our streets, because it is also part of waste and all the garbage that it carries with it? It is a very holistic thing, but it needs to be structured in such a manner that we localize it to make it more amenable to what will be important in a certain locality. view
• 10 May 2022 in Senate: With those many comments, I support the Bill, but with amendments. view