Washington Jakoyo Midiwo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, lastly, the Executive also needs to know that we have done them a favour. You brought a Bill that we passed here which is in the line of one of the Bills that have a constitutional deadline. Millie Odhiambo brought one. Hers is a bit more recent but yours has been lying there for a long time. They have refused to operationalise that Bill. My Bill on consumer protection was assented by the President in 2012, long before the elections. The Attorney-General has refused to act. So, we want the office of the Clerk, as we agreed ... view
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: We need to do this so that people know that we are willing to work, but we do not need the extensions that hon. Katoo is asking for. We do not need them and we would not need them if the Government was doing its part so that we partner in operationalising this Constitution as was envisaged. view
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you. I rise to support the Bill. I want to say a few things. This country is at crossroads. We have said, on our side, 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
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: that we support devolution. We want even to support the national Government. But until both sides sit down and talk over the issues which are wrong even with the Constitution and the happenings today, I do not think, as a country, we are going to make headway. There is pilferage at the county level. There is a lot of misuse but I want to plead with Kenyans and say this without fear or favour that if money, which seems to be annoying the conservatives in this country, is stolen in Isiolo, that money circulates in Isiolo. If it is stolen ... view
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: For the ears of the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, a wrong trend is being set by politicians in this country and they are the ones who have decided that devolution is not good for us. However, we want to say that we must separate devolution, governors and MCAs. Devolution is taking wealth to our people. I tell you I was in Siaya, my county and I saw constructions going on. The youth are not begging. People have new cars like it is in Kiambu and Nyeri. We want it to be like that. Every Kenyan has a ... view
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: and pay them with taxpayers’ money yet they are not elected? We must find a formula. This country cannot afford a Parliament of 500 people. Let us reduce it. There is no point going mashinani and then you are adding the numbers up here. That is what is irritating in this system. We want to tell our people, let us deal with the size of counties. view
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: There are counties with boundary friction today. Why is the case? This is because some counties belong to one-and-a-half ethnic clans. If they are bigger, the governor will be elected by everybody and so he cannot discriminate. So, we cannot sit back and say that we cannot dialogue. We must tell the Members of the County Assemblies that the Senate has a responsibility. In fact, I was laughing the other day that a group of MCAs has gone to court to put a cap on how much they can spend. The MCAs could not be so wrong. view
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) has a constitutional mandate to make recommendations on caps. This is in our Constitution and you cannot take them to court. This is in the document that they passed. The CRA can even say that they will not do anything but it is given that mandate in respect to how county governments spend money. So, we want to have all these things working without irritating ourselves. Times when demagoguery was the in thing in politics is gone. We have a constitutional way of how to change things that we do ... view
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: However, the time we are in, we want to beg the Executive not to belittle our Constitution. view