Washington Jakoyo Midiwo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: I am rising to support you on the direction you have began to take the House towards. There is no Government in this House, and I want to plead with you that whatever you have been eating in the last few days, wherever you were in Rwanda--- When you were away, you kept eating it. view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: ( Laughter ) view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Keep guiding us constitutionally as you are doing. You know, in the last three months we have been given by “Mr. my Government here,” a lot of promises, yet he is just an ordinary Member of Parliament. We are all ordinary Members of Parliament. view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: ( Laughter ) view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: So, what you are doing is the right thing, and Members ought to understand; I was going to ask you that you keep referring Members to Schedule IV of the Constitution. Some issues belong to counties. What we are trying to do is to ask questions, which the ward representatives should be asking the governors. It is very important because, even when I talk to ward representatives across the country, they seem to think that they should refer some of their functions to us. I think that this House has a duty, through you, to guide the country through the ... view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: ( Applause ) view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Speaker, Sir. One other issue on your ruling in-between is to the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology and nobody canvassed--- Listening to that ruling, I thought you opened a window for the Committee to re-look at that Report so that it is brought here afresh since the other one lapsed. The example of the Australian Parliament that you gave suffices because it says that it a grievance and it remains live. view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Without politics and on the issue of teachers, we are talking about 200,000 Kenyans who are unhappy. I think this House has a duty, through a Committee to, at least, not ignore that fact so that we can find a solution for the children, teachers and parents. I thought the Committee should be urged to re-look at that Report because it cannot be left to lapse like that because of a technicality. view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Secondly, the issue of whether we will continue being under a pure presidential system or a parliamentary system needs some historical look. Hon. Amina Abdalla will tell you that when they were in the Committee that occasioned the Constitution, it was agreed that for decades, the clamour has always stalled over the issue of the presidency. That is because the presidency, as we had it, was one where the pyramid had too much power. We said 20 per cent of the Constitution had problems and I want to go on record as saying that the day the Naivasha team reached ... view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: The issue which we are canvassing is fundamental. Rwanda, which is in our neighbourhood, found a way of dealing with this issue. However, it is not possible to address some things if the Executive is not reachable. For example, you cannot resolve the massacre which happened in the lower Eastern Province through a Bill. We need the Government to be here so that it can tell us why our people are living without security. They need to be here but they are not here. We ought to find a short-term and a long-term solution to such problems. That is why ... view