James Ndungu Gethenji

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: In addition, we are very privy to many instances of malpractice by the airline, the management, the commercial department, the under-pricing, the loss of revenue and the stripping of assets. We bought several planes; wide body jets for the purpose of growing the airline in Africa to make Kenya and the JKIA a hub in the continent so that we can channel traffic into the interior. What do we do? We strip those assets and sell them to other airlines and yet we have paid for those airlines as a nation, the National Treasury and as a public. Those assets ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move. No! I beg to reply. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move. No! I beg to reply. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to thank all the--- view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: I would like to donate one minute to the Member for Othaya to give her contribution. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I wish to thank all the Hon. Members who have spoken to this Motion and all those members who have supported it. Indeed, even those who have opposed, we respect their views as Hon. Members and representatives of their various communities and constituencies. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I urge Hon. Members to delink the issues of trade with this very important and particular specific issue of defence co-operation with the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) and Kenya. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: With regard to the issue of public participation, it was said here that we should have engaged the local communities. I wish to put on record that I had already done that and it is contained in our Report. We conducted public participation on 24th March this year. We issued notices in the media for memorandum and for interviews and we received no such memoranda. We proceeded to engage the Members of Parliament (MP) from the various communities represented, and who are the host communities which are affected by this arrangement. Further to that, Section 8 compels for the clean-up ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to join the Leader of the Majority Party in giving morale, support, thanks and congratulations to all the men and women in uniform who continue to put their lives on the line in our defense and that of this great Republic. The Kenya Defence Forces (Amendment) Bill, 2015 was published on 24th July, 2015 and read the First Time on 18th August, 2015. Thereafter it was committed to the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations for consideration pursuant to Standing Order No.127. In processing the Bill, the Committee invited several comments ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: placing advertisements in the daily newspapers on 18th August, 2015 pursuant to Article 118 of the Constitution. The Committee also met the sponsors of the Bill, officers from the Ministry of Defence and several stakeholders whose views were captured in our Report and contained in the Report tabled on the Floor of the House. Among those we interviewed and had sessions with was the Ministry of Defence, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), the Transparency International- Kenya, Parliamentary Initiative Network, Independent Medico-Legal Unit, Mr. Zedekiah Kagame and his team, the Rokibbs Enterprises, the Institute of Social Accountability, the ... view
• 28 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: office may only be done under extraneous circumstances such as in times of war, emergency or during other extraneous security circumstances or exigencies. Clause 13 removes the need for the CS to inform the National Assembly where the KDF are deployed and where expenditure is incurred or will be incurred. This is in violation of Article 201 of the Constitution, which outlines openness and accountability as some of the guiding principles in financial matters. The proposed amendment by the Committee seeks to include expenditure incurred or to be incurred during deployment of KDF as one of the items that the ... view