Washington Jakoyo Midiwo

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• 23 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second and agree with the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. First of all, that the Senate would attempt to increase allocations to the county governments is, in itself, not well explained to the country. That is because it is in public domain that part of the reasons why this country has problems with corruption is because it has been exported to the counties. If the Senate were fair to this country, the Senate Committee on Public Accounts will really be churning out their reports on weekly basis on the ... view
• 23 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: corrupt. The governors are even bragging that EACC is in their pockets. They have compromised the systems. How nice would it be that we begin afresh, with a new team as a country, by sending the governors home, particularly those ones who came from the streets and found themselves in a pool of money that they did not work for. They are just looting. It was wrong for the President to say he is helpless. When the Government brings a list of purported corrupt people, they say there is going to be a change while people are walking in the ... view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Of course, when it comes to Mr. Bundi, I would not have slept, if you did not give me a chance to say something. He was my DO in Yala and a friend of my greatest supporter, Mama Paulina whom we were supposed to visit over the weekend because she is very old now and Mr. Bundi is very fond of her. view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: When the former Clerk, Mr. Gichohi retired, I said in this House that Kenya is a very weird country. When people are at the age when they are most productive, we send them home in the name of retirement. In many jurisdictions, at Mr. Bundi‘s age, he would have been told to collect his retirement letter but stay on his job on a contract so that his brain and experience is not wasted. They always say that a brain is a terrible thing to waste. view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: I remember the case of Mr. Gichohi came in the nick of time when we were choosing Public Service Commissioners. I remember being in a discussion on what to do with Mr. Gichohi and the then Prime Minister said that we must make sure that brain transits to the public service. How I wish this Government could do the same for this brain which has so much information! It will be wrong to meet Mr. Bundi driving a pickup from Meru bringing miraa to Nairobi because we refused to recognise him. view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Yesterday, I met a gentleman called Isahakia who used to be a Treasury Chief Procurement Officer. He now sells cars at Railways grounds and he was a senior financial analyst at the Central Bank of Kenya. This country is in the business of wasting brains. We are talking about fake degrees and we have people with proper degrees selling cars and some about to go to the miraa business. This House must increase the retirement age or find a solution. I remember it used to be 55 years and we increased it to 60 years. I think it would be ... view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you. She has already clarified. She is a very good Speaker. Let me stand to contribute to the President‘s Speech. How I wish the Leader of the Majority Party was sitting across me, because some of these people do not believe in some of the things that they say! It is a pity that Hon. Duale is repeating the same lies as read on the Floor of this House six days ago. In my native language, they say: ―A rat always bites you, but it blows air to soothe you.‖ So, he was soothing Hon. Kaluma that he is ... view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: under irrigation that would have been put within two to three years of Jubilee Government. There was a promise that drought will not affect anybody. But the Galana-Kulalu project for example-- - Hon. Duale comes here and tells Kenyans that Heads of State have visited Kenya. He is not telling Kenyans that Mr. Netanyahu came to Kenya, but did not go to the irrigation that is being undertaken by Israelites. But because of corruption, Kenyans are now dying. The Government is telling Kenyans that it is going to Hungary and Europe to look for maize, while we would have been ... view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Hon. Duale says the economy is a success. In the last eight months of the year 2016, our economy has lost 135,000 jobs in the formal sector and largely in the banking sector because of Safaricom. That is because the Jubilee Government does not have the ability to even read the financial markets so that Safaricom is doing telephony, taxi, banking, CCTV and many other businesses. This country needs a Government. Somebody is absent. You then come to this House and say that the economy is a success. Where is the double digit growth that was ... view