Washington Jakoyo Midiwo

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• 27 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I agree with you, but I keep getting interrupted. This House is debating everything, including the proposals by the Committee led by Hon. Langat. Members need to see Committee Reports. You know that I am not lying. You cannot come here in the afternoon and ambush us with a report and expect us to have 232 Members to support it. That is not right. Something is seriously amiss. This thing was not before us. I am a Member of HBC. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, nothing is really out of order. I just plead with you to allow the tabler of the reports, since they are from the Government and they concern the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), to at least apprise the House on the status of the CDF for this current financial year. It was promised, but we have checked today and there is nothing. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Could we just know from our good Government if it is broke? view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Speaker for delivering your ruling with a lot of curiosity. It seems curious what this ruling is supposed to do. First of all, listening to this ruling, it will have a lot of effect on how legislators and legislative assemblies across this country behave. It seems to me that the governors particularly will take a lot of comfort by drawing and quoting this ruling. I support the fact that you have said you want to create order. I like that because if we are going to impeach the President or a constitutional office holder, we have ... view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: an opportunity to explain to Members much like you have recommended. However, I plead with the Procedure and House Rules Committee to close the window for any Member ever withdrawing his or her signature after appending. For Members to withdraw their signature, it means they want to stop the Motion from coming to this Floor. A Member can come and vote against the Motion on the Floor. Nothing stops a Member from voting against a Motion. It looks really bad, cheap and suspect that Members can append their signatures and turn around and withdraw them so that they can deny ... view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise to support the Procedural Motion. I would also like to thank you for guiding and rescuing us from making a mistake last week even though the noises have not quite subsided. We are still being blamed. I took my time, went back and looked at the proceedings that morning. I thought it was a very big mistake. To err cannot be permanent, but if you keep doing it, is where the problem is. Hon. Speaker, I want to plead with members of your panel that on a matter like this one, if we pronounce ourselves one ... view
• 15 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to contribute. Hon. Duale has taken many words out of my contribution. Nonetheless, I will say something. Allow me to send a message of condolence to my party Chairman, Hon. Mbadi, who lost his mother two days ago. All of us as a House, I am sure our hearts are with him. We wish him well. Having said that, I am very happy with the renewed sense of responsibility by the Leader of the Majority Party. I wish that in future, we will be looking at these Bills in this manner. I was ... view
• 15 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: We want to request you to put it off. I want to plead with the Members to support what the Leader of the Majority Party has requested and what I am going to request. Members could not listen to us. The requirements of Chapter 6 of the Constitution allow us to come up with our own code of ethics. In the absence of that, I know that you have no window but to call Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to send a code of ethics here because that is required of us by the Constitution. What Members did yesterday was not ... view
• 14 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise to seek your guidance before the Motion on the Order Paper is moved. I am lost as to why this Motion before the House is seeking to establish a select committee while, by your own pronouncement, even though the said Report was tabled in this House, it has never been debated. Should the procedure not be that what the Waki Commission tabled in the House should have been presented here as any other report for debate, led by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs without the so-called “select committee”? We have never debated this ... view