Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 411 to 420 of 1730.

• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: (Ndaragwa, JP) view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second this very important Bill from the Senate. In doing so, I also want to take this opportunity to thank and commend the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and particularly the Chair who is doing what is expected of him. This Committee has also brought to this House very important Bills that go into the heart of implementing the Constitution that we gave ourselves as a country back in 2010. May I also say that you will hear from time to time many Members who would want to say ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I take this opportunity to say that it is true that the Constitution we have is different from the Bomas Draft and the Kilifi Draft. As I contribute to this Bill, it is good to have it on record that there were many kitchens that the 2010 Constitution went through. The final kitchen seems to have been the one at Naivasha and I was there. For the record, every single word, clause, provision and article, including the commas, were negotiated and agreed upon by the political parties that were represented at Naivasha and the politicians who sat at Naivasha. That ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: them. Instead of now being in Parliament lamenting, look for ways of amending and I can assure you that when you attempt to amend it, you will be faced with the very difficult realities that to amend this Constitution is not easy. If you think it is easy, have a sitting with Dr. Ekuru Aukot. He will tell you how difficult it is and what you need to do. So, as we support this Bill from the Senate, it will inform us of the need for us to address ourselves to the various statutes that are required to implement this ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: . It is not where the Bill that was before the county assemblies was focusing on. There are actual areas where we can actually, as provided under Article 201 and ably quoted by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, address ourselves and reduce the cost of doing things and implementing this Constitution. If we do not do that, we will continue talking about a huge expense. I want to commend the Committee for finding it necessary to address themselves to that issue and giving leadership by showing us the way forward. When a given group ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: and you are given notices that have come from the chief, which is a very routine thing. If we are not careful with this requirement of public participation, it will fatigue Kenyans. It will defeat the purpose for which it was introduced in the Constitution. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I want to agree with the Committee that the requirement that county assemblies hold public hearings on a petition is too expensive and quite unnecessary. Through experience, we have seen that many petitions can be dealt with at the committee level by inviting the petitioner, exercising your mind on it and you come up with a satisfactory answer to the petitioner. I want to agree with the Committee that it is important to look at the provisions of Clause 5 (3) (b) to a point where we may need to delete it. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The Bill requires the county assemblies to debate all the petitions that are brought before them. The experience we have is that you can clog the Chamber or agenda of Parliament when you try to do such things. The very worst is that the petitions’ time can lapse when they are still queuing for them to be debated on the Floor of the county assembly. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view