Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: power. In the private sector, benefits would go to the shareholders. We cannot say what their role entails in the public domain and the economic stability of a country. What do we experience in this country today? To a large extent, we are actually seeing a general failure at that level. Large Government parastatals are actually going down. We do not want to mention names but they are actually clear. It is not as if the people who are running them eventually get any sanctions against them. They run down the companies they have been appointed to head. They are ... view
• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: “21. The Board may establish a membership committee which shall be responsible for vetting of membership. 22. (1) Subject to this section, a person is qualified to be registered as a director if the person holds a qualification approved under subsection (2) by the Board. (2) The Board may, by notice in the Gazette, approve qualifications which it considers sufficient to allow a person to be registered, and may, in like manner, withdraw any such approval. (3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), the Board may require a person making an application for registration to satisfy the Board, in such manner ... view
• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support this amendment, but I just wonder if the Committee Chair would explain why 90 days. If somebody wishes to be released and he has made the request to be released, why should they wait for all three months? I am sure they will be told to wait for three months. Why can it not be 30 or 60 days? I support it, but I think we can do more. The Committee Chair has the mandate. We can actually bring it to 60 days if the Committee Chair actually agrees. That amendment can be done ... view
• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I must congratulate the Committee for this. The KDF is probably one of the largest spenders of public funds. For a long time, there have been a lot of misgivings whether this money is spent properly. Therefore, to subject them to public scrutiny and make the audited books and accounts available to the public is a progressive act. I support. view
• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Once again, I must congratulate the Committee because its Members are really observant. The Committee must have noted that all the amendments that they brought, that is, Clauses 34, 38 and 39, indicate that there was somebody, considering that this is coming from the Government, bent on taking the country backwards. All the amendments were intended to militarise the country and to hide the accounts of the military. The Committee should have taken exception to that. I wish they had expressed themselves on that matter so that they can save the country from a Government Bill that is intended to ... view
• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I once again support this. I really support the work of the Committee although Hon. Kajuju has gone. This progressive keenness where the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations is seeking to see anything that is retrogressive or bringing back things that are behind us and picking them out is good. We want transparency. My worry is and why I will not go for the view that the Jubilee Government is a good one, those parts that are retrogressive that were seeking to amend the Bill, were actually brought by the Leader of ... view
• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to appreciate that this Bill, which has moved to the Third stage, has very good components as Hon. Gumbo said. The components include those on compensation, treatment of our soldiers, appeal when they feel aggrieved and those of the date and time of discharge on request, being indefinite. It is very good. However, I want to put caution that when we have such amendments, we have seen some retrogressive tendencies that seek to take us back to the areas where there was a lot of opacity particularly in areas of accounting, ... view
• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: We have also seen similar tendencies when we have miscellaneous amendments that tend to do more than expected. Miscellaneous amendments are often just for minor corrections. Miscellaneous amendments tend to give Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) a lot more power by changing boards and appointments. As we were saying about the Jubilee Government, and as we progress forward, the tendency and the desire to move backwards must be eliminated completely. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: As I end, I hope that in line with Clause 1, the CS will operationalise these amendments in good time and not keep them in abeyance. We would have looked at that, but time has passed. We should have put a definite date instead of leaving it to the CS to decide when to operationalise them. view
• 12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: With that, I support the amendments as they are good. view