Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: infrastructure programme and the World Bank programme? We need to be clear so as not to have double allocation of resources for the same kind of projects. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support your statement. For sure, being the second year of this Senate, I think it is very clear that we have made a lot of progress to establish ourselves as the “Upper House”. Just recently, we were wondering whether the Senate is also becoming the academy of Parliament because when you see the kind of discussions that we have, the in-depth analysis and the insights, you can for sure tell that the crème de la crème of this society is resident in this august House. We owe it to Kenyans and indeed the whole ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was making some silent consultations with Sen. Mugo. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Members of this Committee. Because this is a Sessional Committee, it would also have been good, in the future, to look at a broader spectrum when it comes to the constitution of the Senate Business Committee (HBC). This is because it is this Committee that determines what comes to the Floor of the House and what, of course, goes on record in terms of prioritisation. This is something that we need to be quite careful about. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: I do not know the basis upon which Sen. Sakaja, Sen. Poghisio and Sen. Were ceded their positions. Maybe it is because a change is as good as a rest; but obviously, I would have loved to see more women in that Committee than the numbers that are there now. Clearly, there are more men in the HBC; but you need to make sure that the agenda for women also gets priority. In fact, I must say that most of the people who give quorum to this House and the committees are women Senators; that is a matter of fact ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is something that we also need to address ourselves to, as a House. We need to be a little more serious with our Order Paper because our Order Paper sometimes changes according to the mood of the House. That, for me, is a bit discouraging. Let us have an Order Paper that is predictable, because we sometimes jump over agenda and we move from this Order to the other one simply because maybe a Member is not around to prosecute the matter. Sometimes, as a member, you are ambushed and told, “Can you now be ready ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: There was a time when I had a Motion here on anti-corruption and the moment, I was ready to speak to the nation, the other Member who was absent came in. Then the next time, the Clerk-at-the-Table will look for you asking if you will be there tomorrow. That is something that we need to agree on as Members, so that we do not give a difficult time to the Table Office. When you have an agenda that is on the Floor, please, be available so that if then you are not available, you can cede the ground so that ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that this House and, in this Session, – now that we have learnt the ropes; whether we are first time Members in Parliament and all of that – we make sure that we do not have this rather interesting behaviour of extending debate so much on an issue. This is done to the point that now, maybe you were sitting here anticipating debate on a matter that you have an interest in, but sometimes we prolong debate so much to the point that, that agenda is not attained. We, therefore, need to have proper controls ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think we are slowly but surely earning our place in the Legislature and we must continue to ensure that that is the case. That is to mean that even when we engage on this issue of the referendum, we must be clear on what we want. I do not feel that we have canvassed enough in the court of public opinion on what needs to be done with regards to the Senate. What we are seeing are Members of the National Assembly – who are still lagging behind in unicameralism – suggesting that the Senate is ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Similarly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, this issue of saying that the Senate has delegates; there are no delegations in the Senate, let us say the truth! If I happen to be nominated from Kiambu County, I am not a delegate of Kiambu County; and that is the truth. What then happens to a county which does not have somebody who is nominated from that county? This is an issue of equality of delegation. If you are elected as the Senator and you are the one who went out there, looked out for votes and you are the right Senator for that ... view