Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: I think Mrs. Shebesh said that this business of horse-trading with some of these positions would continue embarrassing us. We are embarrassed now with the Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission (KACC). I am certain that we will also be embarrassed with a couple of other offices that we have filled. This is because we have shot ourselves because we did not want to do better. We knew that we should have done better but we allowed politics to take the better part of us. So, time to pay back is on our way. Until you are invited to make a contribution ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think many things have been said and I want to agree that anything to do with prosecutorial powers to the Commission must be deleted and reduce the number of commissioners to three. We should allow the responsibility to be shared by the Commission. We should never again entrust an individual walking on two feet with this kind of a responsibility. The issue of transiting all the staff to a new Commission cannot be allowed. We must deal with them because this is an opportunity that may not come our way again. We must make ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, many departmental committees of this House, not even one has been acted upon by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). There are 210 Members of Parliament and this report is saying nothing. The best they can do is to come and look at the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) because that way, they get better media coverage. This is ridiculous. There is a provision that says that the Commission shall have the following functions:- (i) Investigate any matter that in the Commission’s opinion raises suspicion that any of the following have occurred or about to occur. (ii) ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: I think the drafting of this Bill must have had difficulties like we are having now; speaking at his hour in the night. The kind of things that are in this Bill are very scary and any person can misuse it. I am asking that we look at it again and if possible, re-draft the whole Bill. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I do not wish to take you back, but you have clarified that this issue arose out of a Question and the issue that the Minister needed to clarify was on the allegations of bribery. The Member who alleged that there was bribery walked out just before the Statement was read. What is coming out from the Minister now is that even the documents that were tabled were fake. We were all in the House and supported this because there was documentary evidence. He has misled this House. He took ... view
• 16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Standing Order No.97 and Standing Order No.98 allow a Member who misbehaves that way to be named. Am I in order, given what this Member has done, to ask for his naming by this House so that these things are not repeated again? view
• 16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our problem in this country is not the absence of law but the absence of the rule of law. The Minister has said that any action they intended to take on this illegal construction was frustrated by the court process, and in a sense he sounded very helpless. I would want a clarification from the him. Given the case that you have within the court and the reality that we have continued to lose lives in this country because of these illegal constructions falling to pieces, what is the Ministry intending to do? Is there ... view
• 16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like the Minister to clarify - because he has said that, that money was released from banks – whether there was a schedule prepared by his Ministry for the money to be released to 26,000 schools and who prepared the schedules. That is because banks can only release the money against a schedule from the Ministry? Which are those banks? Is it one bank? He knows the names of those banks. It would be important if he could tell us the banks involved. Finally, was he in charge when the schedules ... view
• 16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to support this Motion and as I do so, I agree with the direction of the Speaker that this Motion is actually constitutional. The heading of Article 222, and I believe there is no one Article that is superior or inferior to the other in this Constitution is: “Expenditure before Annual Budget is Passed.” I think the argument that we have not done what others have been saying is not accurate because Article 222, in my opinion, clearly allows the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to do what he ... view