Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I do not know whether it will be in order but campaign financing in my mind means resources spent by a candidate or political party during an election period. I would have liked to add for the purposes of the campaign that during the election period, you may have other things that you do that do not relate to the campaign and I think people can start splitting hairs and saying: “Well, it is the money spent during the campaign.” So, mine was a proposal to put an amendment to the “campaign financing”. At the end ... view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I think it is the law of diminishing returns and I proposed an amendment on campaign financing to mean “resources spent by a candidate or a political---” view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am talking about campaign financing, that is resources spent by a candidate or a political party during an election period. My amendment is after the word, “period”. It should state: “for purposes of the campaign.” My explanation was that you will spend money on other things during the campaign. If that is included--- view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I presume you are talking of Clause 2, yet we are talking about--- view
• 28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: I think this is an important one. I think you need to guide us because to me, we are still on Clause 2 and we are talking of definitions. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I am of the opinion that the amendment under subparagraph (e) should remain at least to have the National Youth Council in place. This is because what we are doing is, otherwise, giving all the nominations to the Cabinet Secretary. All we have been saying is that we want as little of Government as possible. So, I propose that subparagraph (e) should remain. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I will lobby him. Hon. Sakaja, can you start the lobbying? view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the issue in this amendment is who will decide on the registered organisation to be picked, if there are more than one registered organisations in a constituency or if there is none. Therefore, this amendment is not a very practical one. Maybe, we should drop it and go the way that hon. Midiwo suggested. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, did you hear me? view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: What it says, responsible for youth and women affairs, assumes it is one. view