James Mwangi Gakuya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to oppose this Bill. Taking into consideration we have witnessed a lot of leadership drama in Nairobi County. In fact, the Governor of Nairobi County was not at gunpoint when he signed this Ded. I believe he did so willingly. It is true that there was enough time for the Governor to converge his team and take position. I believe when he took that position he was driven by the will of the majority of his management. As we stand, it will be very unfortunate to start thinking that ... view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: transferred functions will be disbursed directly to the county government. This is because it might be difficult for the Governor to transfer this money for the needs of Nairobi Metropolitan Services. In this case, if we cannot make a decision on how these monies will be directed, we cannot leave this issue without ensuring that this House takes a position and ensures these monies are protected. We do not want to have drama after disbursement. So, for purposes of discharge of services in Nairobi, I believe the right direction is to ensure we get a formula on how these monies ... view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute on the Motion towards prioritising recruitment of NYS graduates. The youth are the most volatile team in this country. Over 70 per cent of youth are totally jobless, especially in Nairobi, where I represent one of its constituencies. The headache we have is how to deal with these jobless youth. We understand that the environment in Nairobi offers nothing for free. For anything to drink or to eat, you have to get into your pocket. Therefore, at least, it is important to think of how we can ... view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, recruitments are keenly done through what we call agreed numbers. So, you may find a situation where it may be difficult to second them. However, there could be legislation to give a window on a number and qualifications of trainees from NYS that can be accepted by other disciplined services. This is a noble idea. It is very important to have seriousness in terms of how we take our youth to the next level. If we fail to do so, our youth will become very difficult to handle within our society. view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Motion. view
• 30 Nov 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Motion on the approval of the various …. view
• 30 Nov 2017 in National Assembly: I rise to support this Motion on approval of nominees to various constituency committees on NG-CDF. Following the previous approval of names of committees, it has taken some time for them to be gazetted. It is now three months since we were elected to our offices. People in our constituencies are asking what we are doing. Their expectations are very high. They expect that by now there should be NG-CDF officials to manage the various projects. Some are pending and some are in progress. view
• 30 Nov 2017 in National Assembly: First, there is need to harmonise the various provisions in the Act especially following the ruling by the Court of Appeal. There have been two rulings. The first one declared some provisions in the NG-CDF Act as unconstitutional and the recent ruling by the Court of Appeal made it clear that Members of Parliament have no role to play especially with the NG-CDF. We need to come up with clear rules and provisions that cannot be challenged in the courts. We have three arms of Government: the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive. Each arm of Government should play its ... view
• 30 Nov 2017 in National Assembly: I support the approval of the nominees. I expect by tomorrow all the names should be gazetted so that we move on to the next level of initiating projects as we promised our citizens who are our electorate. view
• 30 Nov 2017 in National Assembly: I support. view