James Opiyo Wandayi

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• 26 Sep 2017 in National Assembly: No, I have four minutes. view
• 26 Sep 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, what I am trying to say is that if, for instance, we look at the rules and regulations of the Supreme Court of Kenya and make it possible, that if a determination is made that actually the petitioner won the elections, then the Supreme Court of Kenya would perhaps have the powers to declare him the winner. By now, we would have had Hon. Raila Odinga declared the President and we would not have to go through this other election. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we must insist given the grave findings by the Supreme Court of Kenya and ... view
• 15 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will be very brief. I want to commend the Committee for having come up with these proposed amendments to the Standing Orders. I want to speak to two matters. One is the proposal on Standing Order No.178. It is, indeed, commendable that we are reserving the leadership of the Committees of Public Accounts Committee, Public Investments Committee and now the Committee on Implementation to parties other than those which form the Government. That is in line with best practice The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified ... view
• 15 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: worldwide. There is a further improvement that this time round there is a proposal to have majority of Members in those Committees to come from other parties other than those which have formed the Government. That is a big improvement. It is pointless to claim that the minority side is chairing a Committee, for instance, the Public Accounts Committee or the Public Investments Committee, while the membership of those committees come almost entirely from the Government side or the majority side. It defeats the purpose of those Committees being chaired by Members from the minority side. But having said so, ... view
• 15 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: I did not say that. You did not understand me well. He was not listening. Having said what I said, I still maintain that we should allow the minority side, which next time round I am sure will be composed of that other side, to chair those committees. So, I am really helping them. It should be given the leeway to nominate people to chair those key committees rather than subject it to a normal election which will result in a majority ganging up to elect for the minority people to chair those committees, as it has happened in the ... view
• 15 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to educate my friend Hon. Kathuri that the independents envisaged in the Constitution are not the independents we are witnessing. They are all losers. What we have here are losers who have failed to accept defeat in party primaries. I want to repeat that. If you lose in a party primary, you do not become independent. What are you independent of? You cannot jump ship from a political party and then call yourself an independent. I will reject this. In conclusion, the bulk of the proposed amendments are good. The other few sections which ... view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I wanted to comment in respect to both NIS and the IEBC additional requests. view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, without being seen to belittle the work of NIS, we know the enormous task that it has on its hands as regards to protecting this country. I still have a serious problem. The reasons being given as to why this additional Kshs300 million is required this late in the day are not very convincing. If we are told that one of the reasons is the matter of elections, we knew from as early as 2013 that elections would be held on 8th August, 2017. It cannot be an emergency. The other issue is the matter of the emerging ... view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, let me just conclude. view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we risk creating a situation where we continue to pump money to NIS which we have no capacity to audit and for which they are accountable to no one. That creates an avenue for misuse and, more so, at this time of the electioneering period. 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