Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 May 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is an important moment to eulogise the fallen Third President of the Republic of the Kenya, H.E. Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki. I start by reading a quote that is famously attributed to him: 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
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.” view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: Another quote that is associated with President Mwai Kibaki is that when he faced challenges in the 1988 Kenya African National Union (KANU) nominations, he still won but he said that even rigging has manner. Madam Deputy Speaker, the shambolism that is associated with party nominations has been rampart across the political divide. It has been used to deny the country great leadership of people who have contrary opinion. This is especially because even the turnout is usually very low to the detriment of good leadership. At times, going by his assertion about leadership and rigging, you have to make ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: You can hear the trumpets of the brass band as his body is being escorted out of Parliament. The President came to power on a wheelchair. This is very significant. He had gotten an accident and as a result, he ended up on a wheelchair. It is out of this that President Kibaki promulgated the Persons with Disabilities Act No.14 of 2003 into law. That was a watershed because it enabled persons with disabilities whose Bill had actually been in limbo in this Parliament for 10 years since 1993, to see light of the day. It is actually out of ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: It should be remembered that Mwai Kibaki kind of became a president by accident. He had tried to become president in the 1992 but he was a good number three, although in politics, there is no number two or three. In the year 1997, he became number two, then eventually, he was a president of consensus because the then opposition formed the National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAPK). It was a constituent party of the DP, a party that he founded Social Democratic The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: Party (SDP) and such other parties that came together. Later on they were joined by Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led by the then KANU renegades, under the leadership of Raila Odinga and others like the late Prof. George Saitoti - May his soul rest in peace - and Kalonzo Musyoka. view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: When he got into power there was a lot of hope and over 500,000 people thronged Uhuru Park to see his swearing in. There was a lot of desire to change this country. Indeed, I remember, as a young university student that time there was a lot of hopelessness in this country. The economy was in the doldrums. I remember, knocking the doors of Parliament at the Continental House bringing my friend Martin Obiero Okumu, to see his then Member of Parliament the late Archbishop Ondiek, who had replaced our senior, Sen. Orengo as the Member for Ugenya. Martin Obiero ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: Again the benefits of Kibaki’s Government were again to have a direct impact on me because student leadership was banned in all public universities. I remember, that time we could have been at the university as a vice chancellor in Moi University. When it was reinstated, I happened to have been elected as a student leader at Kenyatta University, one out of the seven student leaders at the Kenyatta University Student Association (KUSA) together with my dear sister Hon. Gladys Wanga, the incoming Governor of Homa Bay County. view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: It was that gesture that those who had clamoured for reforms at the university level, that got an opportunity to exercise leadership under the new democratic dawn that the NARC administration birthed under the leadership of President Mwai Kibaki. I remember we led a protest against the then Vice-Chancellor, the late Prof. George Eshiwani - may his soul rest in peace. It is out of that that President Mwai Kibaki gave us a new Vice-Chancellor Prof. Everett Maraka Standa, the poet, who of course ended up governing the university in a better way. view