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• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: I oppose the Motion, Hon. Speaker. view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise on an important issue regarding the subject of the Bill we are about to discuss. This is a Bill of 2015 and it was meant to address certain issues. Since 2015, this country has gone and is still going through issues of gambling and betting. I have looked at this Bill and it does not adequately address the issues the public tells us. Under Article 95, this House needs to approach this issue differently. We asked the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade about this issue. I raised the issue about the ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: The parents of those two girls did not know where they were. In this case, the boy got them for nothing. A neighbour of that slum guy was curious and called the police. We should not debate this Bill as it is. It has been here since 2015 and this shows laxity and lack of worry in the Committee that is concerned. I want to ask Chair to do something unusual for the sake of our country. We should use the Mover of the Motion, who is the Leader of the Majority Party, so that you can give us one ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: within seven days, bring proposals on how we want it done to the House. We should know who is licensing these people. I have seen in the media somebody purporting to give regulations. You give regulations on how people repatriate money out of our country? It is not a very small matter. You have seen even the media have gambling numbers. Who is giving them those numbers? Who is permitting people to gamble their property and lives away? In our constituencies, and many Members know it, if you go to a town or a village, you find people gathered somewhere ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the chance to support the Kenya Defence Force (Amendment) Bill. Let me congratulate my Chair for putting it in an orderly fashion. I sit on the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations and we did a lot of work and consultation with regard to this Bill. My Chair has really improved lately. You have to congratulate this Committee. Since you became the Speaker, I do not think you have seen a Committee Chair present a report like this with proposed amendments. That requires some kind of accolades. He used to ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: that guard this building and do not know how they protect us. The reason why the United States of America has something called the Secret Service is that they are secret to everybody. That is how they have managed to protect their country to near perfection. In Parliament, a police officer stands with an AK47 or G3 riffle while a civilian searches vehicles coming to Parliament. The PSC does not have that capability. That cannot be part of the Commission’s duty. I know they are trying. I have taken occasion to talk to members of the security department. It is ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: That would be the right thing. Somebody cannot sit somewhere and take kids from their villages and bring them here and purport to make them security officers. This is somebody fighting the State and exposing Members of Parliament, the House and the institution of Parliament. We cannot allow that to happen. In this Bill, the proposal that you can take the NYS to go and work in Somalia where there are soldiers in combat was ill-advised. Sitting in this Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations Committee, I got a chance to visit military institutions. How I wish we could ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise under Standing Order No. 17. I have just heard something very strange raised by Hon. Duale purporting to give notice of a Motion. view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: You may have but you were purporting. Hon. Speaker, this is a House of rules. I am in the House leadership and I am sitting here with my Whip. We do not know under which Standing Order Hon. Duale is choosing a Member to the Speaker’s Panel without consulting us. If I remember well, there is a procedure for that. Sometimes we light fires that are unnecessary. That is utterly unprocedural and it amounts to disrespect. It cannot work. view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Yes. Please. view