Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 721 to 730 of 1730.

• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: It is drama when you attend some of the national functions like Mashujaa day celebration and you have a governor there. You literally think that the Head of State may be visiting your constituency like the case of Kakamega. You cannot quite tell. There is confusion. The county commissioner and deputy county commissioners are also confused; they do not know how to treat these people. I am saying this because the Senate should seize the opportunity to deal with these gaps. There are gaps that were created because when we were doing these roles back in 2010 and 2011, there ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: person that they are going to employ him as a driver as long as he gives them votes – things that do not help us at all. One of the other things that we also need to do is ensure that there is stability. Some of the provisions contained in this Bill are useful. For example, if I pick out the issue of the speaker, if we lower the threshold for him to be sent home and we say that all you need is two-thirds, all these speakers will be home. We need to make it more difficult for MCAs ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The other thing that I need to point out is that if we are not able to spell out the role of the governor…I want to support the sentiments of Hon. Kimunya that this first day of meeting or assembly, there is a section in the Bill that is saying that the assemblies will be convened not after the general election but on their first day of meeting. I agree with the sentiment of view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Kimunya that, that convening should be done by the President. That is so that we remove the notion that there is political power we were devolving. There are units that exist autonomously – totally devoid or independent of what is happening at the national level. We do not want the national Government to come and interfere with normal learning. But, let us have some order in the country. We seem to have lost that order. I think that is important. Again, we have the issue of how we fill the position of the deputy governor when that position falls vacant. ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Thank you so much for that. I just want to say that the role of the nominated MCAs is crucial, we want them. But, we must cushion the elected ones from being undermined by the nominated. However daft the elected one is, that is the one people gave votes. So, we want to make sure that the people’s choice is respected and the governor does not find a way of using nominated MCAs to destabilise a county, a thing that is happening in quite a number of the counties. Thank you so much, Hon. ... view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Ndaragwa, JP) seconded. view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I want to start by thanking the Committee for the good job they have done. I want to echo the words of the Leader of the Minority Party, that it will be good if they can move faster and bring reports from other counties. A couple of things have been mentioned and one of the thing is that I remember when we were doing the Constitution back in 2010 and before, we were faced with the issue of CDF because many then, who are ... view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: board. I think the board is made up of a group of Principal Secretaries who were supposed to be acting when a substantive board is not in place. I hope that the Committee under Hon. Maoka Maore can also move and make sure that we have a board so that it can deal with those issues that have been raised by Members, among others. view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I was giving that background. While we agree that there is this thing about separation of powers, and we have men and women known as Fund Account Managers who are supposed to help in the administration of NG-CDF at the constituency level, my experience in the last one year has nothing to do with what I saw during the 10th Parliament. The mwananchi from Ndaragwa and every other corner has a clear understanding about CDF. If it does well, it is because there was some direction given by the Member of Parliament. If it does not perform, they will send ... view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: In the past, we had a poor way of distributing those funds. I would get Kshs40 million in Ndaragwa while another constituency would get Kshs120 million. We now have about Kshs110 million distributed equally. It is still not the best. I am seated next to Hon. Kwenya from Kinangop. He has 120,000 registered voters and he is getting Kshs100 million. I have about 50,000 registered voters and we are getting the same amount of money. It is not fair because when it comes to him dealing with bursaries and the rest, he will certainly struggle more than me and it ... view