Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, we have seen in this country the pictures of Africans dying. Most of those who died are women and children. The people who died in the Island of Lampedusa were mostly women and children. Colleagues, we are the most educated and gifted in all ways in this country. view
• 30 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, what we have done this morning is lament. We have not done anything concrete that is going to bring change. My suggestion is that your Liaison Committee should meet and come up with clear sanction guidelines. If this does not happen this time, this is what is going to happen. I know many of these Chairs were elected on party lines, but now it is becoming clear that they are not up to the task. I would suggest that in our next Wednesday sitting, the first Statement that we would like to hear from the Chair is ... view
• 30 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, what we have done this morning is lament. We have not done anything concrete that is going to bring change. My suggestion is that your Liaison Committee should meet and come up with clear sanction guidelines. If this does not happen this time, this is what is going to happen. I know many of these Chairs were elected on party lines, but now it is becoming clear that they are not up to the task. I would suggest that in our next Wednesday sitting, the first Statement that we would like to hear from the Chair is ... view
• 24 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. The absence of a law like this has thoroughly eroded democratic practice in this country. In my mind, this has subverted the will of the people over many years. We go to the elections every five years or in-between and we come out with the belief that we have elected the best people. However, in many instances, what really happens is that those with finances manipulate the vote and the people especially the youth. What comes out is not in many cases, what is expected. When we have this law and ... view
• 24 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: It percolates that basically if we can effectively control the use of money in elections, we will control corruption to a very large extent. The process of contributions during elections in itself removes the right of people and to an extent it removes even the independence of the people who are elected. It is not only during the process of election, but even when people are in positions they have been elected into. You will still find that the process that brought them in is affecting their performance. Maybe with the exception of a few cases and some of us ... view
• 24 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: is discovered after the election, your punishment will be in the next election or the next by-election, if that is there. In my mind, you should just be disqualified even if you are already in. Clause 14(1), for example, indicates the period of three months that the Commission will declaim the expenditure limits. That is too short. By three months, persons who were raising money will have gone through raising the funds. Those are areas that we can look at. But overall, I support this Bill and definitely, we will work to bring in some amendments when we get to ... view
• 23 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this Motion; the gist of this Motion is the expenditure that we, as a country, incur through our Government officials. Hon. Speaker, Kenya is probably one of the most highly taxed countries in the world and the majority of our people are poor. Over 41 per cent of our population lives below the poverty line. That is leaving on less than US 10 Dollars a day. These are the people who pay taxes; these are people whose money we spend every time public officials travel. These are ... view
• 23 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: The immorality is paying Kshs16,000 for a glass of juice and a curtain behind you and sitting there because you are a senior officer. That is not acceptable. view
• 23 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, this is the same attitude that we have in this country that when one is put in a senior position, then people want to live extravagantly. People want to be seen to be well to do, they want to drive expensive cars and live in expensive houses. All this is really at the cost of the poor taxpayers. It is time that we really looked into this. We should not look into the area of air fare alone, but we should think of all the other areas like even the per diems and the meal The electronic ... view
• 23 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: allowances that people claim. If we work seriously on these areas, we will save this country so much money. Many times, people think that these are small expenses, but you should think about this the way you think about the white ants. If you see a small white ant in a house, you do not believe that it can bring the house down, but if they are thousands of them like we have many civil servants and they are all pilfering small money, for example, Kshs.1,000 there and Kshs.2,000 there, in the end it will probably be a much bigger ... view