Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me start by congratulating the Committee. The PAC is the most important committee in the House. It expresses our oversight function in the way public funds are used. I agree with you that when the House is empty like this and we are discussing a PAC Report, it is something to be concerned about. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: This particular Report is on the IEBC, which is the single institution that everybody looks up to every five years in terms of whether we are going to have peaceful transition in this country or not. This period is when we have our elections. We all know what happened. The elections were disputed. More than 300 people died because of this. One of the reasons was the transmission of election results, which was due to the procurements, which were done by the IEBC. If this Report says that we had problems in procurement and that things were not done properly, ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I know Chapter 15 of the Constitution provides that commissions are independent and full time. We must look at what full time commissions do. Do they do executive work? If they do, then, there will be conflict between the executive and commission. As indicated in Section 11(a) of the IEBC Act, that is something that we cannot take for granted. If one part of the Act gives the CEO executive powers and the Constitution gives the commissioners executive powers, then we have a conflict. I agree with the recommendation of the Committee that we need look at the legal framework ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Any change of Government is always a risky business and the people given that mandate cannot afford to have an issue like conflict of interest. They cannot look after their interests whether it is pecuniary or something else. So, I agree with the recommendation of the Committee that there is need to investigate this matter further with a view of prosecuting people who may have contravened the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: They have said that there is lack of oversight on the part of the Commission. We must go back to the structure. I am beginning to think that the legal experts must look at the IEBC Act, particularly Section 11(a) and the Constitution. It is possible to have an Act that is in conflict with the Constitution. Again, if they do not oversee, they have committed a big error against the country. Actually, it is a crime. I will not go into the recommendations because that has been expunged through the ruling of the Speaker. The second recommendation can still ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have a huge pending bill. We have a pending bill in circumstances where the procurement process and its intent has been put into question. So, are the pending bills that we are going to pay genuine? Were they incurred properly? Do we get value for the money we are paying? We should look at the pending bills in two ways, namely, we should pay the genuine ones because they may be costly for the Government in future, but those that are not genuine should not be paid. Reason should be found why they are not ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The CEO has been described variously. He was handsome and appealing to all kinds of people, but he signed away Kshs4.3 billion against the law or the procurement process according to the Report. It is also clear from the Report that he ignored the market value. Procurement law now indicates that if you have tenders that come out with costs that are far above market index, you can put that procurement to question. But many of our colleagues have said that the IEBC gets money late. I do not know whether that is intended so that things are hurried and ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: There is also an issue of blacklisting. They talked of one company to be blacklisted and another one called OT Morpho. I have always wondered. I see some road projects in my constituency and the same people have been doing projects all over. They do not do them to completion. We should blacklist these companies. There is one issue in the country that we have ignored which is a fact that corruption is even bigger in the private sector. We seem to make an assumption that corruption is only in the public sector. It is like a tango. Those who ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support the Report. view