Washington Jakoyo Midiwo

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• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, you can see the challenge you have. I begged you last week, and I still beg you to conduct induction workshop for our new Members, because the public is watching us. What is happening here will go down with this country. Already the House has integrity issues and people are bringing pigs in front of the House. We have to move a notch higher. view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: Even if the House, in its wisdom, decides that we have to pass or reject all, it is the prerogative of the House but it is good to put the record straight. It is important, so that we do not appear to have gone to some vetting exercise and wasted public funds. We took our time. Some of us here take our job very seriously. I know that our colleagues may wish, because of political reasons, to do this, but we have been faced with several challenges in this, and the Mover ought to have raised them. view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: For example, there were questions about hon. Charity Ngilu and hon. Najib Balala. It is important to tell this House about every negative thing we could have asked hon. Ngilu had been deliberated here; there is a parliamentary report which cleared her. So, this House could never have used the negative part of that report. It is important to tell Members, so that the public stops saying that we let her off the hook because we did not. We could not use the same report which was brought here, deliberated on and she was found innocent. view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: It is important that when we are moving a report of this magnitude--- view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: I accept the information, hon. Speaker, Sir. view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: I was coming to that, hon. Speaker, Sir. This House did its bit. This Committee, through the Office of the Clerk, asked the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission whether it had anything good or bad against the nominees of the President. They said that time was too short, and they had not seen anything adverse about them. This is not a court of law. We are seeing articles in the media which are negative about the Committee. If we go this route, you will see more of them. We have a duty to this House. We were a Committee of the ... view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: Therefore, those who have contributed, this is what they said during the deliberations, but the minutes ought to be given to these hon. Members to show that she view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, the House is perfectly in order to disagree with the Committee, and that is why we are a debating Chamber; but it is good to say what criterion we used in vetting. This is what we looked for and hon. Abongotum was not in that room, if I remember well. I have never missed a session. We said that we were to look at academic qualifications, employment record, professional affiliations, knowledge of the relevant subject and that is where the problem is. We also said we would look at overall suitability for the position. Then we looked ... view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: I do not want information! view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I am just about to finish. Our problem is the criteria that I have read and it is official. These things are in the Act. We had problems with this particular nominee regarding Nos.5 and 6, which is knowledge of relevant subject. Many Kenyans sent all Members of the Committee messages that, that docket will have a problem because she spoke to the nation. She did not exhibit any knowledge view