Jamleck Irungu Kamau

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 761 to 770 of 1078.

• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. Indeed, the Statement I have made is exactly what I would have told him. Of course, we are determined to make sure that we answer all the issues that come before the Committee. We will be glad to get a Statement from the Member or from other Members so that we can be able to sort out those issues once and for all. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: I also have a second Statement which will be presented by the Vice-Chairman, if you allow him. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to second this Bill. Pursuant to Article 118 of the Constitution and Standing Order No.127 the Departmental Committee on Energy, Information and Communication facilitated public participation by engaging stakeholders on the Bill. The Committee met with the Ministry of Information and Communication, the CCK, the Media Council and Safaricom amongst others. We received written submissions in form of memoranda from the Media Council and the CCK; all these in an endeavor to achieve public participation. The Committee scrutinized this Bill thoroughly. We came up with various recommendations as a Committee. I would like to ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: As the Leader of the Majority Party has indicated, the intention of the Bill is to amend the Kenya Information and Communication Act in order to, among other things, align it to the Constitution of Kenya. In this respect the Bill seeks to provide a statutory framework for governing the communication sector in order to confirm and satisfy the requirements of the Constitution of Kenya. This Bill proposes to make a raft of amendments to enable better regulation of the sector by providing for the handling of new regulatory challenges in the communication sector due to rapid technological changes. It ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on this particular one, the Committee deliberated at length and they were asking themselves quite a number of questions. Do we make the Communication Authority of Kenya or the Media Council to be the body envisioned by the Constitution under Article 34(5)(a)? We were clear that the Media Council of Kenya may actually be hindered because of one thing called commercial interests. You find that in the media, we have the media owners themselves and, of course, their overriding motivation is commercial interests. Therefore making them the body envisioned by the Constitution would actually not be ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, therefore, when move to the Committee Stage, the Committee will be moving the necessary amendments and I hope Members will be able to support this, because I think it is important for us to make it crystal clear that this is a body that we intend to make extremely independent of control by the Government, political interests or even commercial interests. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is another issue that we actually worked on. We looked at this Bill critically and said that if, indeed, the Communication Authority of Kenya is a body that we need to be that independent, then the appointment procedures must be reviewed as well. This is because we cannot have a body that is independent and then we leave it to the whims of one individual to make appointments at will. Then that raises the question that, that will not be independence at all. The Committee will be coming up with some recommendations on the way ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Members to look into seriously and critically; I think that will make that particular authority to either be independent or be controlled by some other forces. We believe that once we make the nominees come through the House they will be able to have some form of independence. They will not fear that the appointing authority might remove them from office. view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is another issue we looked at and that issue was also very critical. If you look at this particular Bill and more specifically under the appointment procedure, it talks about: “Within 14 days of the commencement of this Act or of the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of the chairperson or a member of the board, the Cabinet Secretary shall by notice in the Kenya Gazette and at least two newspapers of national circulation declare vacancies in the board.” view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we had a beef with that because we cannot at this time say that within two weeks from the minute the Bill becomes operational that all the directors of the Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) should cease to hold office. I think we must be able to have a situation where institutional memory is actually let to go on as we move on. However, we are in agreement that the best procedure is to let those who are currently serving serve until their terms expire, after which the appointment procedures spelt out here, and which will ... view