Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: More important, when we audit and we find discrepancies that some organisations are not doing what they should do in accordance with the Constitution and now this Act, what do we do? These facts must be acted upon because if they are not acted upon and no sanctions are prescribed, it will just go on. That is why we are saying that we have two issues in the Constitution that if they were implemented, we would not be talking about other things politically. It is basically because they are not implemented. They are in the paper but they are not ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: you are entitled to what this nation produces in terms of inclusivity, you cannot have a nation. You will have a State defined by boundaries, Constitution, acts of law, departments of Government but you will not have a nation which people believe in for which they can find. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: In this country, if you stood in the street and said, “These Luos are very stupid people”, you will be attacked immediately but if you stood in the street and said these Kenyans are this and that, people will say you are a mad person because deep inside us, emotionally, we do not belong to that entity called Kenya. We belong to the entities of the smaller groups. It is only issues like equity that can bring that into our minds so that when Kenya is attacked, either through corruption or even militarily, we feel we are attacked. When people ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The issue of unemployment amongst the youth is the greatest threat we have but because of lack of equity in terms of employment, the youth are despondent. They do not feel that if jobs are advertised and they apply and there is nobody as they say to hold their hands, they will get that job. I have had experience where a youth tells you, “ Mheshimiwa, I am not applying because even if I apply, I will not get it unless you help me”. When we reach that point where people do not even try, the country is dead. When ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Again, it is this inequity which is a major factor in our divisive politics. People fight at the end of elections because they have lost. It is because they know if you are not there and your people are not there, you do not have a stake and you will not have anything. But if you have a situation where people know that it does not matter who is the head, they will still get what belongs to them, people will not even fight. Does it really matter to you who the president is if your children can go to ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: If the BBI document could have dropped from heaven written by somebody somewhere outlining problems we have in Kenya and giving the proposals for their solutions, after reading it, I am sure all of us will agree that it is a good document that can help us. But why do we have a difference? We have a difference because we have gone beyond it to our usual cocoon of saying but who will implement it? So, we are fighting about who will implement the BBI document even before we look at the document and accept it. We are killing a ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: I wish we separate the BBI argument from the 2022 succession issues so that we can regard it as a good document. After that we can say, okay, who is going to implement this document for us. When you want to create many positions, obviously everybody wants to sit at the table and so, you have to put many chairs for the many people who want to sit at the table. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: But even if you have those chairs, the issue of equity must come in terms of the people who are to sit on those chairs. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a small component of the bigger debate we have in this country that we must address. With that, I support this Bill. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Yes, that is correct. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Report. I support the adoption of the Report. This is an extremely important discussion. There are three special funds; namely, the Uwezo Fund, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and the Women Enterprise Fund. The main difference is that the Uwezo Fund came through an entirely political process and, therefore, its structures were never developed. The Youth Enterprise Development Fund and the Women Enterprise Fund came through clearly worked out processes that put in structures. I am actually quite happy to hear ... view