Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 801 to 810 of 1711.

• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: I am, therefore, not your substitute so that when you do not appear in the House, I am called by my Whip to come and vote on your behalf. That is a misnomer; it is a carry- over from the National Council of Provinces of the South African Parliament. It does not apply to our case. For those of us who represent special interest groups, we end up being abused as second-class citizens in this House. We must ensure that you, as an elected Senator, are always here to vote and you should not delegate your vote. That is a ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this debate of the referendum, let us have the first runners-up of the presidency becoming an automatic Senator. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: The one that we are anticipating! view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: The first runners-up of the presidential election should be automatic Members of the Senate; and then the other one should go to the National Assembly. Another thing that should also give status to this office of the Senator and the Senate is that all retiring Presidents, when they finish their two terms should automatically become ex-officio members of the Senate. They should become Senators. By the way, I am against doing away with term limits. That way, we will be aping what is happening in the House of Lords in the United Kingdom (UK) and even near home in the ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the word “Senate” comes from the word s énior in French, which means senior. In fact, even God is called Sénior or senior. We cannot have a situation where you have a Senator and then somebody there calling himself Member of Parliament (MP), which then gives him the impetus to think that we are a lower House. Of course, what has happened is a situation where you have had the advantage of an existing institution. Therefore, this institutional memory, procedures and practices then push this agenda forward for the National Assembly. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: However, the drafters of the Constitution were very clear; and that is why, for example, we must ensure for all intents and purposes that the position of the Clerk of the Senate remains to be the administrative heartbeat of Parliament. That one, we must not negotiate for whatever reason. We need to seek a situation where our own Speaker is also a Member of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). Is it not a misnomer that a whole Speaker of the Senate does not sit in the PSC? We must address some of these things without fear of doubt and without ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: I beg to support. view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to speak to this Bill with regard to PPPs, both at the national level and, in particular, at the county level. This is a new impetus to the way we finance our public facilities or projects. It is important to note that we are in this realization because of the rising debt. Recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised our Debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio at 63 per cent, yet the red line is at 72 per cent. If we are to borrow the monies that we anticipate to finance ... view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: contractors are supposed to install some establishment worth Kshs2.7 billion. The question is, where does this leave our people? Who is in charge of this process? How will this partnership benefit the investor? What will be the cost of hiring the stalls? Who will supply the building materials and procure the approvals? Where will the small view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: who has been doing business there, relocate to? I can proudly say that I am a product of that area, because it is my home area. However, people are treated badly as a result of an investor from China who has made money from I do not know where. He comes under the aegis of PPPs to displace people, make his money and go away. We do not even know how the project will take off because all these things are below the radar. I can bet that the only person who may know what is happening is Gov. Ferdinand ... view