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• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: If a meeting was held, the Chair owes this House an explanation. We need to have even the minutes of the Committee. view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: But you can see obviously Members are protesting. The Chair is not the Committee. He is just a leader of the Committee. That is seriously out of order. view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, let me honestly thank you for constantly trying to address that anomaly. Let me also thank hon. Gumbo for his interest. I am of the view that we are doing very little as a House when the Committee Chairpersons are compelled to answer questions. I think we are confusing the country. view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: However, I want to say that the bigger solution is to bring or appoint Ministers from this House. view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: The so-called Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) think that they are bigger than Members of this House. As time goes by in this first Parliament of implementation, you will realize that we have created a rogue set of human beings to lead from outside the law. view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you have seen how they talk. I recently saw a CS basically thumb his chest to this House against the law. I am of the view now that the country is talking a bloated wage bill--- We need to explain to Members and the country that when we used to have Cabinet Ministers from this House, there were very many advantages. In respect to the wage bill, the Minister was only paid additional responsibility allowance apart from their pay as a Member of Parliament. Now you have somebody who is being paid more money than a Member of ... view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: The other advantage is that we can meet them in tea places and ask them the same questions which we are now taking taxing taxpayers’ money to ask, but we are not getting answers. view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to plead with all of us that as we look for a temporary solution, the ultimate goal is to make Members of the Cabinet be elected by the people. view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I know the Chair is answering on behalf of somebody in the Executive. But just as hon. Mwaura has said, I do not think that answer alone will satisfy the question. There are issues to do with medicine; it will be good for the Chairman to ask the Cabinet Secretary the steps he is taking to solve this matter. If this is distribution of medicine, it is common sense to imagine that this is a devolved function. If you play around with it up there, I think somebody will squander the money and that should ... view