Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Jul 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to discuss this Bill. The issue of refugees is a big problem in the country. This country actually has 500,000 people who live as refugees mostly from Somalia and South Sudan, and we have huge refugee camps like Daadab and Kakuma. Kakuma is actually the largest refugee camp in the world. So, it is a big problem that we have. Worldwide, there are about 25 million people who are walking around as refugees without status. Not just the numbers but we also have problems of looking after them. There ... view
• 2 Jul 2020 in National Assembly: another country. So, you find that the establishment of the designated areas and the settlement officers that look after these areas and protection of how you get into… view
• 30 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me start by declaring my interest in this matter. I happen to also own two houses there. This is a grave situation. Many people are involved. I think they are more than 1,000. These are large estates. In our case, in my younger days, we started a housing cooperative for doctors. We went and looked for land. We did the searches and did everything that is supposed to be done. We then built 112 houses for the young doctors who then were not housed. This matter now comes up even after we went through all ... view
• 30 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: the Government. Can the same Government turn round and repossess the land or destroy your house even without notice? Further, people have been paying rates. The Government has offered services in those places. Some of the institutions found there are actually Government institutions. The Police Dog Section and the Kenya Prison Service are also located there. How could it be that nobody in the system noticed all this? The people being targeted are third or fourth buyers yet the people who were involved in the first transactions actually exist and are well known. I am not a lawyer, but I ... view
• 30 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute. Procurement is the main vehicle of execution of all public projects. As the Hon. Member said, all the money in the projects is expended through procurement. It is this process that ensures projects are completed, are quality and the absorption of the funds that we appropriate in this Parliament is done. So, it is an important function. It is also the greatest risk for graft, corruption and loss of funds in which both the public and the businesspeople equally suffer. There is therefore need to have a ... view
• 30 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: In disposal, the public has lost great amounts of money. Huge public properties have been disposed of for a song. It is all by design because the generalities of the law give loopholes used by crafty people to acquire public property. I support these regulations, as the Vice-Chair went through them, give clear details on all these areas and we believe they will protect the public and the businesspeople as well. It is also hoped that this will support the counties. As you can see, all the attempts by the MCAs to impeach the governors are all on procurement. There ... view
• 30 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me opportunity to discuss this. It is an issue that is long overdue. Aging is a reality and the number of people getting elderly is increasing. Though our health system may not be good 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
• 30 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: but the improvement in our economic status means that the life expectancy is increasing and so we will have more old people. Secondly, the structure of our families and our lifestyles has also changed. In the old days, most of the people looked at the children as their support system in their old age. That is no longer true. Children move and live far off in other countries. We, therefore, will have a situation where we are going to have a large number of people who are elderly who need care. Therefore, a structure has to be put in place. ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: It is not a point of order. Hon. Speaker, I wanted to add how important it is that CSs should be here. I remember the effort that you and the whole 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
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: House made at the beginning of the 11th Parliament to get CSs to come to the Chamber. You gave a ruling that you could find a way where they could come into the House and sit in the corner over there. That is the provision we use to have the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning to read the Budget Estimates in the House. It is just politics that stopped the process. While we wait for the changes in the Constitution to be made, that should be revisited. Politics may have changed and if cabinet secretaries were to ... view