James Ndungu Gethenji

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT view
• 25 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, Pursuant to Article 155(3)(b) of the Constitution of Kenya and the provisions of the Standing Order No.45, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on the Vetting of Principal Secretaries Nominees laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 25th June, 2013; and approves the appointment of the following persons as Principal Secretaries:- 1. Eng. Karanja Kibicho - Foreign Affairs 2. Amb. Monica Kathina Juma - Defence 3. Mwanamaka Amani Mabruki - East African Community. Our Community had the pleasure of ... view
• 25 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I thank you and all the hon. Members who have risen to support the Motion. I wish to thank the erstwhile Chairman of the Defence and Foreign Relations Committee, my compatriot, hon. Keynan, for seconding the Motion. These three positions are critical to the diplomatic defensive and economic agenda of this country. I wish also to thank the members of the Committee for a most robust and searching vetting exercise and also for taking their time to participate. view
• 25 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: With that, hon. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move. view
• 6 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion. I wish to thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the wonderful job he did and coming up with sound recommendations. Division of revenue is the sole province of our National Assembly. Article 218 (1)(a) states thus: “ A Division of Revenue Bill which shall divide revenue raised by the national government among the national and county levels of government in accordance with Constitution and a County Allocation of Revenue Bill which shall divide among the counties the revenue allocated to the county level of government on the ... view
• 16 May 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I rise to lend some support to the statement by the hon. A.B. Duale. In addition, we need to think a bit more creatively and out of the box in the sense that security is not only about resources, the number of personnel that we commit to a particular problem, or how many bullets or rubber that we can buy or afford to provide our security forces with. Many nations around the world, including some neighbouring ones, have far better security within their borders than we do in Kenya, yet they have a much lower ... view
• 16 May 2013 in National Assembly: Another example is in the Middle East. In Dubai security is very high. You can leave your mobile phone on a table. There are no incidents where communities rise up against others and hack them to death, yet it is not necessarily about the faith that these people espouse. It is about the culture and the ethic that is within the people. This culture and ethic is what I wish to speak on and challenge our Government and the security forces on how we can redirect, retool and reengineer the social thinking of our population. I struggled to find an ... view
• 16 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, the clarification is this: We want to know from the Government how we can retool and reengineer our societies without necessarily buying more bullets, guns and vehicles. We need to think outside the box because security is not only about resources. view
• 16 May 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker. Is the hon. Member, and the entire CORD fraternity, in order to keep on referring to “tyranny of numbers” when the Constitution of Kenya refers to this country as a democratic Republic? The view
• 25 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion and thank the Chairperson and Members of the Committee on Procedure and House Rules. I note with disappointment sections of the Press reporting that Members of this House wish to expand membership of committees in order to have avenues to further remunerations. This cannot be further from the truth. view