James Opiyo Wandayi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I, therefore, urge you to rule that this debate cannot go on and, therefore, the Procedural Motion on the Order Paper be withdrawn forthwith. Thank you. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I also wish to support this Procedural Motion really out of necessity. I am a Member of that Committee and it is apparent that unless the House takes action of shortening the time of publication we might run into a crisis. It is important to note that although the Government is new and the Cabinet Secretary is hardly in office for more than two months, there has been lethargy or lack of action on the part of Government bureaucracy. This Act was supposed to have come into force within six months from the date of assent by the ... view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I support this Procedural Motion. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Motion. Hon. Speaker, if you can recall, in the morning, I talked about resistance within the bureaucracy, against this Act. It is now clear that the reason as to why this Act has not been operationalised as envisaged by the Act itself is because of people being uncomfortable with it. This discomfort is, of course, genuine but the Government bureaucracy, headed by the Minister, was not forthright to the Committee when they appeared before the Departmental Committee. The reason as to why I supported the extension, which ... view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Speaker, Sir. I just want to add my voice to this matter of Committees. I am beginning to sympathise with the Committee chairs. Unless something drastic is done by this House, this idea of asking committees questions and expecting answers will remain a ritual. I am beginning to believe that a country such as Kenya, in the state of development in which we are, requires very close interaction between the Executive and the Legislature. This is because the questions we are asking here about pedestrians crossing and speed bumps on the roads are never asked in the ... view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I just want to move forward my argument. view
• 10 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, the Leader of the Majority Party had earlier on stated that we want clear separation of powers. It is a fact that we have got very clear separation of powers in a parliamentary system of democracy as in India, the United Kingdom (UK) and Israel. If we cannot find a way of having Cabinet Secretaries appearing before us, so that we can interrogate them on a regular basis in this House, we shall have to move very fast, as a House, to not only create what hon. Jakoyo referred to as a mongrel system of Government, but ... view
• 9 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that the Goldenberg matter almost brought the country’s economy to its knees through false compensation claims on fictitious export of gold and diamonds; noting that the taxpayers lost about Kshs5.8 billion that is documented so far; further aware that a Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to probe the matter established impropriety on the part of Goldenberg Company and its architects; noting that the report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry has not been acted upon conclusively to date; further aware that the Kenyan Public continues to bear ... view
• 9 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the story of Goldenberg International is fairly well documented. In fact, anyone who was of age in the early 1990s must have heard about this story. To strangers in Kenya, this story sounds like a fairy tale. If I may jog the memory of the House a little, the political and economic environment in Kenya prior to 1993 was too weak for Kenyan authorities to allow Goldenberg Affair get so much out of hand that it became a scandal of mega proportions. Kenya then was a fairly closed economy, with the Government controlling bank interest rates, prices ... view
• 9 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: In the late 1980s, the Kenya Government, under then President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, introduced the infamous Export Compensation Scheme ostensibly to encourage legitimate export of gold, eliminate smuggling and, therefore, increase revenues. Of course, this was not to be, as I will point out later. Hon. Members will recall that the Goldenberg scandal started around 1990, and became a massive economic scam which cost this country close to US$750 million, which is the equivalent of about Kshs60 billion at the current exchange rate. This was, obviously, done through irregular, illegal and fraudulent foreign exchange claims by Goldenberg International and ... view