Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I stand guided. These professional bodies are able to discipline their members and withdraw their practicing licenses. That is not something we have seen in Kenya. If you look at the Land Use and Physical Planning Act, one of the challenges of implementation of it is because the Ministry of Land has proposed regulations to do online conveyancing. But who are the people who went to court? They are the lawyers. A lot of corruption happens during conveyancing around the land registries. We all know that land is a critical factor of production. Every project ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the other point is the issue of technology. We have spoken about it, and it was actually well canvassed on how to use technology to disrupt corruption. view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This would really help a lot because money moves very fast across the world. If money is stolen in Kenya today, within no time, it would have moved a lot. With the Panama safe havens, Cayman Islands and the faceless shell companies, technology is very important because when you transact online, then you actually leave trails because the internet does not forget. So, artificial intelligence, which can use big data, will be very instrumental in the war against corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, my other observation is that you need to look at both long-term and ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 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
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: has been proven that it actually works. When you kill people publicly, like you will lynch somebody, it sends a very strong message. In fact, if you go to China, around the Confucius Institute, they will show you how such people were executed and corruption went down. I had a conversation with the Minister from Rwanda who informed me that when the President exposed some of them, and they were alleged to be corrupt, corruption went down. So, you need those kind of systems, but they must be buttressed through the rule of law and self-discipline. We need to have ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 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
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: These are the deliberations of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) meeting; they are very illuminating. The fight against corruption is serious. It is actually threatening to go down with every one of us. People do not have money in their pockets. Part of the problem of liquidly is because if you have Kshs1 million, you have to prove where you have gotten it from. People are failing to transact. In fact, the real estate bubble has burst. Madam Temporary Speaker, most malls are actually almost empty. People are not buying houses, land is not selling very first and you ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the long and short of it is that the Conference was good. I hope that from these deliberations, we, as parliamentarians, can look at legislative measures that would enhance the fight against corruption. It is very mutating and moves very fast, and people devise new ways. Sometimes if you look at our laws, you may never catch the real perpetrator of corruption initiator because they may not be the ones who sign documents. They use other proxies who then suffer. You can see the case of the National Youth Service (NYS) and so on. So, we need ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, with those many remarks, let me quote the Bible that: “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to a people.” view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: I beg to move and ask Sen. Farhiya to second. view