Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 41 to 50 of 1711.

• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: I am here standing as a direct beneficiary of President Mwai Kibaki’s leadership. Further, I remember with a lot of nostalgia that there was a boom to the economy so much so that, many of my colleagues who finished schools with us were able to get jobs within their first year. They did not tarmac for long because the banks were employing. They were hawking loans, there were so many businesses. Credit was available. I was speaking to Jimmy Kibaki, the son this morning after I had viewed the body, that that is the inspiration of the Kenya Kwanza Coalition, ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: actually relegated so many people in the doldrums of poverty and that is not what our Government should do. It is a total failure. view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: When President Kibaki left office, he left the country with a public debt of Kshs1.8 trillion because he borrowed very well, every year about Kshs200 billion for infrastructural projects. At that point in time, the economy was financed locally and domestically at 93 per cent of the GDP. We were only borrowing about 6 per cent. Today, all of our development budget is borrowed because of poor fiscal economic strategy. view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: When he was there in power, I remember as a young public servant at the very young age of 22 years, having got my first Government appointment, we used to practice what you call the medium term expenditure framework. This is was a three-year budgeting cycle, so that you would know your resource envelop three years in advance. It was incremental. Today, it is yearly and about 8,000 Government projects are yet to be implemented because they are whimsical. I remember President Kibaki saying when he took over power in the year 2003 that the country shall not be led ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: He believed in the rule of law and as a result, he promulgated the new Constitution in 2010. He never felt the embarrassment as to the loss in 2005 “no referendum” that he actually lost to his erstwhile political nemesis in Government and allies led by Raila Odinga. He still kept the fire burning. It is actually rumoured and documented that in 2007 he was ready to relinquish power because he was a democrat until some forces prevailed upon him. Of course, there was the Grand Coalition Government. view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: However, even then, he was very witty and an intelligent man. When he constituted his first cabinet, he only appointed 17 members of the Cabinet - I can remember very well - and left the other 17 to the then opposition. However, the Cabinet later on was increased to 42 Members, so that we could then have ODM and PNU coalition get into power. view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: He was a President who never glorified himself. He removed his face from the currency even before this current constitution so provided. The only currency that bears his portrait is the Kshs40 coin, just because it was a new one. Otherwise, he refused to have himself named after every other thing that he launched. We will remain grateful to him for that. In fact, recently, one or two years ago, he was approached to have the Othaya Referral Hospital named after him, but he actually recommended that it be named Kenyatta National Hospital Annex. That is a great man. I ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: President Mwai Kibaki, the great economist, the great orator, who in 1982, was named in the Time Magazine as one of the 100 greatest leaders. For sure, he lived up to this expectation. At some point, of course people were disillusioned with his leadership because maybe in the way in which he spoke. I think he was very intelligent. People may have taken him for a fool because of the manner he presented himself in public. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: However, that made him to survive the longest. He survived many people, at some point he was called a perennial fence sitter, in fact, he was called a general kiguoya, but he finished last and finished strong. view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: I am happy because 70 years is biblical. The late President Kibaki became President at the age of 72 years. Therefore, he has lived his life to the full at the age of almost 91 years, to see the tail-end of the term of his successor, President Uhuru Kenyatta, who also happened to have had the privilege of being his godfather upon his baptism. Madam Deputy Speaker, the late President Mwai Kibaki was a star. The first President, Jomo Kenyatta, must have identified that he had a great future as to occasion a situation where he would be the godfather ... view