James Opiyo Wandayi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: This is the abridged version. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Can I borrow your copy, if you do not mind? view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Could the clerk assist me to read the correct version? view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir, for your guidance. I will do exactly that in a second. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the Motion be amended by inserting the following words after year “2013”, “subject to an additional recommendation on page 12 to read as follows:- The Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Hon. Charity Kaluki Ngilu, should take full responsibility for the unconstitutional, illegal, irregular/unprocedural acts of creating offices and making arbitrary appointments, promotions and transfers of staff in the Ministry, and further be held to account for any undesired consequences such as but not ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Firstly, I must thank the committees for coming up with a very good report. By proposing this amendment, there is really nothing significant or new that I am introducing in this report. I am trying to re-align the recommendations of the committees with their findings or observations. I was trained that when you are doing recommendations or conclusions, they must be tied to the findings in the body of a report. It is important also that Members read and understand reports that are tabled in this House before they can The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: make informed judgments. If this had been done, then my proposed amendment could not have created a stampede that was witnessed yesterday. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Back to the main issue, if you look at this report--- view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I am talking about the near pandemonium that was created by my proposed amendment. If you look at page 10 of the Report--- I will just read some two paragraphs; it says that:- “The Committee observed that the Gazette Notice was unconstitutional and, therefore, null and void. It is the Committee’s view that the Cabinet Secretary ultimately revoked the Notice on realisation of its unconstitutionality”. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Further down, it states that:- “In view of the foregoing, the Committee noted that the recent transfers, promotions and gazettement at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development were irregular, a nullity and devoid of merit and were not backed by law”. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Further down, it says that:- “The Cabinet Secretary purported to appoint officers to positions and went ahead to gazette an appointment in blatant disregard of the Constitution, the Lands Act and the Land Registration Act”. You can go on and on, but the import of this is that these are very bold observations. They are, indeed, very bold observations couched in appropriately strong language. The words in this report are not my words; they are the words of the 58 Members of the two Committees. I, indeed, did not sit in either of these Committees. It is also important to ... view