Washington Jakoyo Midiwo

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• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I urge you to indulge me. I also notice that the Mover of the said Motion is not in the House. If the Mover was to be here now, because he appeared before the HBC last night and requested to be allowed to withdraw the Motion, we advised him to appear here and do it procedurally. However, he is not here. As a Member of the family of one of the said victims, I was going to raise this issue anyway. What we want you to guide us on – it is true that hon. T. ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. We have canvassed this. I rise under Standing Order No. 96 (1) which says: “A Member who wishes to postpone to some future occasion the further discussion of a question which has been proposed from the Chair may claim to move “That, the debate be now adjourned”, or, in Committee of the whole House “That, the Chairperson do report progress”. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do so and I ask hon. Eseli to second. view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to second. Just as it has been said by the Leader of the Majority Party, the matter is pretty straightforward. It seems that since the beginning of this week, we are changing the way we do business. Members of this House need to be alive to the fact that there is a Committee to look into frivolous or untoward behaviour of Members of the National Assembly. view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this is so given in the debate which we are undergoing in the country today about Parliament. The members of this Committee whom we are selecting today need to know that their work is cut out for them. Hon. Speaker, you cannot do it alone. You need Members of this House who are tasked with this responsibility to do it. We have had occasions - and we raised all these issues in Mombasa - when Members were even being disrespectful to the Chair. We raised examples where there is a particular Member or Members of male gender who ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I want to second and urge the Committee to live true to its calling. I thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the appointment of Mr. Joseph Kipchirchir Boinnet as the Inspector-General of the National Police Service. I do so because I feel that, sometimes, inaction is very dangerous particularly where security is concerned. I think we have taken a bit too long without Inspector- General of Police. I hope that the new Inspector-General of Police will learn from the mistakes and the contradictions of the former Inspector-General of Police. I also, on the same note, would wish that the Executive would stay away from trying to manage the The electronic version of ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: work of the police. I may not agree with the way this nomination was done. In that respect, the courts have spoken. The President was given a hand to pick a nominee and bring him for vetting and, because we are charting a new course, personally, I think so far so good. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to say that if approved, and I am asking the House to approve this nominee, he must prove to this country that there was wisdom in constituting an independent Police Service Commission so that it is never again a one man show as ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Here is a scenario where the Administration Police (AP) thinks they are in competition with the regular police. This is the contradiction that we must cure once and for all. If the boss of the AP is incapable of accepting that he is to follow the Inspector- General of Police maybe, it is a good time to ask them to leave so that we can get somebody who is willing to do that. It may have been a mistake to leave the person who The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: was leading that organization because then we end up with that scenario. I want to plead to the Parliamentary Committee to be vigilant. If the assistant is an officer from the AP and he refuses to assist, let us kick him out because security is paramount to the well- being of our country. We cannot have our police bosses fighting and yet, Kenyans are dying. I appeal to the Parliamentary Committee to deal with the issue of police corruption on our roads because the laws are there. I sponsored an amendment to the Traffic Act. In that amendment, it says ... view