Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: going through. But the Committee decided that security is an important part and, therefore, should be funded appropriately. However, security agents have really not lived up to our expectations. The President, himself, was on this Floor talking about security. If you look at it up to now, things seem to have gotten worse. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) has taken a lot of blame but, sometimes, I begin to wonder because they have been saying there is information. What is the failure in using that information? It is important as we have given them money, that failure must be addressed ... view
• 10 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon Speaker, I will not say much about education because we have really put a lot of emphasis on it in the Budget. On agriculture, I will not also say much. On infrastructure, in the last Coalition Government, this was the most important progress that we saw and, therefore, it is important that we continue with infrastructure. This Budget has done that. On the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), I cannot understand how, for many years, we would have a judicial system without public prosecutions. That is because I do not see what the Judiciary would do without a strong ... view
• 10 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: every month in each hospital for a total of 94 hospitals and we are not sure. That equipment is being leased by the National Government, but being used at the county level hospitals. I do not know the logistics of how that is going to be done. We must be careful with that leasing. You know leasing has given us a lot of problems such as Anglo- Leasing. So, this is something that although, as a Committee we have supported, we are worried. The Committee has indicated that we need to get a cost benefit analysis report, audit it and ... view
• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill because the main object of this Bill, as I see it, is really to enable us to recognise in law and in all our programmes that excessive drinking or alcoholism is actually a disease. We need to treat it as a disease that needs to be prevented, controlled and treated and that is the essence of this Bill and that is why I support it. If you look at the World Health Organisation definition of “health”, it is not just the mere absence of disease but complete mental, ... view
• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to deliberate on this. Let me start by congratulating the Chair and the team. view
• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am rising under Standing Order No.54 which regards making amendments to a Report. view
• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, I have an amendment. But I would like to probably give a background to it. view
• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to propose an amendment to the Report on the recommendations which are in Chapter 4, specifically Recommendation No.8 which reads:- “The Government should commission an inter-ministerial and multi-stakeholder taskforce to address the legal barriers regarding the classification of khat derivatives as psychotropic substances.” Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to amend this by deletion of the words “barrier” and “surrounding” and replacing that after the word “legal” with “and scientific basis for”. It will, therefore, read as follows:- “That the Government should commission an inter-ministerial and multi-stakeholder taskforce to address the legal and scientific ... view
• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: derivatives as psychotropic substances.” Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I now can prosecute it. view
• 4 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: One minute will be too short. view