Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 661 to 670 of 1730.

• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: In responding to what Hon. Makali had alluded to, we have engaged the Law Reform Commission and also the Office of the Attorney General to try and get a status report on how much we have implemented in our Constitution. In the coming days when we resume, we should be able to table our report which Parliament can debate and remove the notion from those outside this Parliament that we have failed to implement the Constitution just because there is one article, like the one we had yesterday. This Parliament has done its bit. We still have to do more. ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Let me say that this Bill, without a doubt, is short and you can tell because the memorandum is also short. It is meant to align the Act with the Constitution and perhaps provide 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
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: for the ICT. However, the question is: What becomes of the other sections in the old Bill? My colleagues are saying that we need a complete look at that Bill or the Act so that we are confident with what we are doing. We said the same thing when we were dealing with the Health Bill. That Bill was not doing justice to all the pieces of legislation that we were amending under one blanket. You do not feel like you have exercised your mind adequately on that but we have to do what is before us. What is before ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: We have very many table banking groupings in our constituencies and they have grown to the level that they would want to move to the next level. One of the levels they are going to is a SACCO or a cooperative movement and it is important that we continue engaging ourselves and trying to help them to make sure that they grow. Some of us who were not very old would remember that back in the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s there was a strong cooperative movement especially in Mt. Kenya Region. Through some political tsunamis that hit the ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. This is a familiar position. 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
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: This is where everybody used to speak from during the 10th Parliament before we created the cubicles that we all have now. This is yet another Bill that goes a long way to implement the Constitution of 2010. We commend the Senate for their initiative. We also want to commend our own Committee, led by the able Chair, for working on it speedily and allowing us time to debate it and give input on its enactment. The issue of assumption of office by the governor is not anything new to Kenyans. We all know, including in your own county, how ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: As the governor assumes office, it is also important to provide the handing over procedure. As it is the case in our offices now, you walk into an office where people took off in a hurry. They either left some papers under the table or left with everything. It is important for some handing over procedures to be provided. It may not be possible for the governor whom you defeated or was defeated to walk in and hand over. You need to be very mature politically to do that. However, an officer who is accountable to the people should hand ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The role of the Speaker is a very important inclusion in this Bill. I know our Temporary Deputy Speaker was a Speaker of the county assembly. I am sure at one point he must have seen himself having the potential of taking over as a governor. It would have been a disaster then because there was no clear way of doing it. We have a Bill now that will clarify and make it very clear when a Speaker takes over for a certain period of time. I suggest that the duties or responsibilities that he can fulfil during that time ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: want to shape the county in a manner that he runs it when he is the Speaker. When he is acting as the governor, he is still certain of being the Speaker once the governor comes into office. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute. As we continue thinking through this Bill, the role of the governors and devolution, we also need to encourage ourselves to understand that we were not devolving political power. We can now talk about these things more boldly and in an agreeable manner. When we were making the Constitution, there was a pull and push because people were looking for political power. We can see the damage that can be there, if you devolve political power to the governor. It is even detrimental to ... view