Washington Jakoyo Midiwo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Sep 2014 in National Assembly: I have not asked you for the name! Hon. Speaker, protect me from this young man. I know he will help us clean our image as we move into this new economic diplomacy. With those many remarks, I beg to second. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report. I want to say on the onset that this House has a responsibility to make the workings of the Executive smooth and by retaining the system which we had thus far, is really to make the work of the Executive a bit difficult if all the numerous committees call the CSs to answers questions from Members of Parliament. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to thank you for leading the Rules Committee in trying to bridge or find a solution to this very difficult situation. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, having said that, I want to say that we will have to be careful on what we bring the CSs here for. I hope that questions will be collected over time and when CSs appear, they do so and answer many questions at the same time so that we also give them room to work. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I said here last week that this is a solution which we thank you for fighting to find because we have been lost. Although my friend Duale seems to think that the chairmen have been helping in oversighting the Government, but let me tell you: Truth be told, we have not attained much. We were only trying to find a solution and I think this is probably the best solution we have found so far. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, there is no way a Member of Parliament who is supposed to check the Executive can read a statement on behalf of the Executive and I have told hon. Duale that. He purports to talk on behalf of the Government. He is not. He is the Member of Parliament for Garissa Town. All those purported powers are not his powers. They are not envisaged in the Constitution. He is the Leader of the Majority Party and he is supposed to negotiate with this side on how we do our work but we have seen the arrogance of power ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, right now as we talk about the wage bill, there is no reason to appoint somebody who is basically from the streets and who does not understand political systems to be responsible on behalf of the Government and pay them more money than Members of Parliament. They do not understand any politics and yet, they want to deal with the political systems. They cannot come here and pay those able-bodied people. Some of those people here are even more educated than those people who are CSs and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: they fit the menu. They could do that job and just be paid an extra allowance like we used to do. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we have said time and again that we imported a foreign Constitution in many aspects and it is our responsibility. It may not be the right time in some minds to amend the Constitution but I can tell you it behoves you. It is a must that we must correct the foreign things in our Constitution. There is no running away. It may be that the two sides of this Parliament are not talking in one tone or in unison but I can tell you time will run out and we will have to dialogue – the word ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Really, he says he can only report to one authority and this is the authority of the country. This House is the bench of authority, where people are represented. So, let me end by saying that we are in this predicament and many other predicaments, and this House needs to sit down and say, even without a referendum, which sections of our Constitution are un-implementable and we can go through them in an omnibus, so that the country can move forward. view