Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: SMEP is not working very well. view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. First of all, I want to thank this House for establishing the Committee on General Oversight. For somebody to come and want to slight that--- I disagree with the Chairman of the CIC. He is either being narrow on purpose or being too narrow so as to really hold a position like that one. Let me ask: Where is he when the Transition Authority (TA), in my mind, performs so dismally? The law that put the TA in place actually indicated that the CIC should also assist and guide it in ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: something we cherish so much, but it has had so many problems just because we did not go by the Transition to Devolved Government Act. Mr. Nyachae was there and yet we have never heard him make a statement on that. I think that has hurt the country a lot more than the issue of an Executive standing in this House, which shall have transformed into a Committee, to give facts. Hon. Speaker, I would like to take this platform to ask all the people involved in the implementation of the Constitution to be pragmatic and look at the welfare ... view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, my worry as may be--- view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, my concern about “as may be approved” implies that sometimes that approval is not necessary. My worry is that a structure and a process for approving the same are going to be set up in the Ministry. The use of the word “may” in this case implies that officers can actually just let it pass. So, I would be happier with the use of more definitive words “as approved” and leave out the word “may”. That is my suggestion. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of information, hon. Deputy Speaker. I think mine is a point of information. There is a background to this issue of sunscreen and albinos. This actually started way back in 2008/2009; at that time, we were dealing with the issue of people living with disability. It was noted that a lot of the problems of people living with albinism were now being put under disability; they have a lot of medical problems. It is not only the issue of cancer which arises from the nature of their skin, and effects of The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: the sun on them, hence the need for the sunscreen. There is even the issue of blindness and infections. What we did at the time was that the first Kshs100 million was brought to support them get sunscreens. The plan that was in place - I do not know what has happened - was that we were working with the Ministry of Health because it is not possible to distribute drugs from any other Ministry. Our plan was actually to distribute them through health centres and dispensaries. So, ours was just to find out how we could work with the ... view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you. It is true that we have a big problem of health in the country now, which has been made worse by the process of devolution. What I have said here many times is that we failed to devolve the way we planned in the Constitution. The TA and the appropriate law have never been applied. One day the governors, the Council of Governors and the President decided to devolve healthcare in a day. It is not possible. The problem we are seeing in healthcare is also in other places, only that in health area players are ... view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: In agriculture, my constituency had a lot of problems when we were trying to distribute fertilizers. There is also a problem in water. So, the basic thing is that we must go back and start to plan devolution. The Constitution itself provides that if there is a problem with a function, it can be moved up and down in accordance with Article 187. The Committee on Health brought a report to this House that was adopted. It indicated what to do when you want to move functions up and down. Where is the Implementation Committee of this House to take ... view