Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you want to bring something down, you do not need a lot of research. But when you want to construct, you must do some work. The Mover and the Seconder of this Bill gave us some figures earlier on in the morning. They stated that, as a country, we lost to a tune of Kshs172 billion for the time we gave those rebates. Unfortunately, while we did this in good faith in April, very little of that money got to the ordinary people in Ndaragwa. We must appreciate the Government for the quick response it ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I seek to move the following amendment to this Motion subject to insertion of recommendation No.40 that, where two or more agencies are recommended to undertake investigations by the Committee, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is the lead agency. The reason why I think this amendment is useful is because, like the Members who have spoken to the Motion, this is an issue that has captured the minds of Kenyans. I even imagine that as we speak, Kenyans are keen to hear what we are saying about this. Like Hon. Odhiambo- Mabona has said, some of ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for that opportunity. I want to join my colleague in saying that even as we support this Report and commend the work that has been done by the Committee, without doubt, we need to ask for a little bit more from Committees that table Reports in Parliament. Kenyans look upon us and this House. We speak on behalf of Kenyans. Even when I see Hon. Nyikal shed tears, it is not anything else. It is really a demonstration of where we are as a country. I do not envy any person in Government. I ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: We must go beyond the issue of the law and what the law states. We need to entrust some of these offices with people who have a feeling for Kenyans. I want to say it again that I sat among members of our community yesterday in a place called Shamata. When you look at them- of course, we are all masked – you could quite tell what people are thinking, but you feel for them. They are looking upon us to give them solutions. I was seated there, I was almost helpless because there was nothing else I could do ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you for that opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I thank the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations for tabling this Report. Even before I go into the details of the Report, I commend this Committee. I have noted that over time, they have continued to table for our debate and passing as a House, various conventions that the country has signed or would want to get into. I know that the Chairman of Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations is keen. I do not know why his debates normally come towards ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: It is in the requirement of our Constitution 2010 that all conventions must be brought to this House for us to pass before the Government assents to them. The purpose is to ensure that at no time should we later in life start complaining about conventions that tie us down even as we try to do our own legislation. This is informed by what used to happen under the Constitution that was given to us by the queen where we would never know the kind of conventions the government entered into, only for us to be informed, perhaps, even in ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Again, I commend the Committee and support the Report that they have tabled. It is certainly a very technical report. I wish there is a way of taking us through so that we can completely understand what they are trying to do. There are very serious technical provisions there. Even as they were presenting, it was evident that they were also very familiar with them. Some of them were from Miami and they were reading them to us. All in all, it is a good thing and we support the Committee. I support and I thank you. The electronic version ... view
• 24 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I join my colleagues in supporting this Report. Without a doubt, the Report has not done what is expected of a parliamentary report. We should have a report that causes others to act. A report where we merely become a talking House and eventually want questions put does not quite augur well with what is expected of this House. I agree with my colleague from the land profession that it would have been better to cite the officials in the Report so that one feels the pain of having been cited ... view
• 24 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: This is yet another team that feeds into the criminal networks that conceive projects in this country, not for purposes of helping the so-called “hustler nation”, but for purposes of looking for opportunities where they can siphon money. There is a similar case in the leather industry where equipment was bought and part of it is lying at Kariokor and another part at Thika. We have grown our imports in the leather industry from a mere Kshs5 billion sometimes back to now over Kshs39 billion. Instead of the people who import leather into the country using the digital precision cutting ... view
• 24 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. 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