Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. President Uhuru Kenyatta has achieved what the Prime Minister of Canada failed to achieve on two occasions. I want to congratulate our President and the whole team of Kenyans who made it possible for us to win that seat. I know that our diplomats, led by Ambassador Kamau, did a commendable job. I have been with our own Speaker of the National Assembly on a number of occasions. I know that he went out of his way to make sure that this good message is sold out to dignitaries he met. We may not ... view
• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: It is a challenge that we must struggle with. I think we are over-distancing within Parliament, but that is not what I stood to say. view
• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, after our tribal fights in 2007, it was a difficult thing to travel outside this country. When you tried to say that you are Kenyan, people would frown at you. I am saying this because --- view
• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I have it on. I have just removed it so that I can be heard. You cannot hear me when it is on. view
• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: There is nobody near me within one meter, as you can see. Hon. Hassan is two meters away from me. There is no way I can affect him. It is important that we pay attention to the peace that is prevailing in this country. We may want to belittle and bad-mouth the issue of “hand shake”, but it also contributed in a big way to telling the world that we are a peace-loving nation. You cannot be given this mandate at the international arena if you are a country that is permanently in quarrels and chasing tear gas more than ... view
• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: agenda out there. There are young people – some of them are not very young – who are asking what this translates to and if it will give them another plate of food. The Members who have spoken before me have helped them to understand that, having a seat at the United Nations Security Council is a big advantage to this country. It will help us to become another destination. We will have many conferences hosted here. Unfortunately, we now have the COVID-19 pandemic. In ordinary circumstances, we would attract many conferences in the country, leading to increased tourism and ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Ndaragwa, JP): I know we are talking about COVID-19 and that is the problem we have. However, as we get consumed by COVID-19, in Ndaragwa we are being consumed by locusts. It is important that even as we do the supplementary budget we do not forget the difficulties that this country went through and is likely to go through given the reports that we have been receiving from the World Health Organisation (WHO); that is, we are likely to be attacked again by the locusts. If that happens, the issue of food security will be badly compromised. It is important ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Equally, we are getting used to this new behaviour and guidelines in trying to combat Covid-19. But we also need to look for ways of getting back to normalcy as soon as possible. When you look at what is happening to other countries, it is important that we escalate testing and contact tracing. Those are the two things that will help us get back quickly to the new way of doing things. view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I heard what the Leader of the Minority Party said. That is crucial. We have been exposed more than before during this period of Covid-19. Parliament has been muted. Saying “No” to something does not make one become a bad person. It gives hope to Kenyans. The 12th Parliament is likely to go down in history as one of the Parliaments that were completely dead on issues of oversight. We are just here to rubber-stamp. Of course, the person who takes the credit is the Leader of the Majority Party, who has mustered the trade. Other ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: what the national Government is going to do, then we are losing the battle against Covid-19. There is an example of a county which, to-date, has received only 15 sets of personal protective kits, 10 overalls, 200 pieces of surgical masks, 1,000 pieces of N95 masks and 230 packets of surgical gloves. If those are the kinds of things that they are sending to the county governments, we are losing this battle. I have not been a supporter of the way the county governments manage their funds but, they are the ones who can help us get to the people. ... view