Jeremiah Ng'ayu Kioni

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 31 to 41 of 41.

• 13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Land remains and will remain one of the key factors in our economic growth. By and large, we have to make sure that we address its use. This Bill does exactly that. The fact that it helps us to have institutions both at the national and the local level, and it creates how they are going to work together in terms of linkages, makes it possible for me to urge colleagues to support the Bill and make it become an Act as soon as possible. Also, the fact that it has penalties for those who will flout it just for ... view
• 13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: of us who are keen on land development will now develop land in a known manner. We develop land so that it is useful to us now and also to generations to come. We have bodies that must be consulted and the persons in those bodies are qualified. You can get it clearly in the Bill, so that we do not allow this asset to continue wasting away. The stability of any nation has a lot to do with how she uses her land. Our land continues being squeezed because population is growing. If we can come up with clear ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: I would like to contribute to this one. view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I thank those who have brought this Bill to the House. I remember as a young person back in mid 980s, we started agitating for the enactment of this Bill. To find it on the Floor is a pleasant surprise for me. My colleague over there knows how much we have struggled to get this aspect of our profession regulated in a known manner. This Bill largely deals with maintenance of buildings or taking care of already constructed buildings. We know that houses continue wasting away when we do not have people who ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: for making it possible for us to have this Bill. I support it entirely. It is necessary that professions are well regulated. When we hear of buildings collapsing in various parts of this town and in other parts of the country, it is because the profession has been left for any person walking around. When that happens, everybody would want to say that he knows what to do in a given situation and we end up in the difficulties that we have had as country. For that reason, it is good that we have this Bill. I support it and ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Allow me, to first of all, convey my condolences, on behalf of my family, the people of Ndaragwa and Nyandarua, to the family of the late Nyenze and the people of Kitui West. We want to condole with them. We have known Hon. Nyenze and we know how much he has contributed to many issues in this country. In the same breath, let me pass my condolences to the families of the 42 people of Kimilili and others in that region and other parts of this ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: for Kimilili, Mheshimiwa Barasa, for bringing this up. It worries me to think that Kenyans in this area could be subjected to this kind of torture again. One of the things that could help, because this Motion talks of many things, including issues of defilement and rape... I do not know whether Members are aware that in our courts today 60 to 65 per cent of the cases that are being prosecuted on a daily basis relate to rape and defilement. It would be important for us to think about it. It is a major problem in our country, especially ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I just want to make one or two comments. One is that for us to be useful to the East African Community, we must be able to have a process that is clear and certain, and one that can be relied upon when we have issues like the one we have right now where after quite some agonising time of preparing for a presidential election, one of the candidates has decided to withdraw with the sole intention of throwing the country into a crisis. One wonders how he intends to benefit from that kind ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: of this world. He is hell-bent on making sure that the legitimacy of the next President, whom I think is likely to be declared the only candidate left on the ballot, is challenged just like it happened during the 10th Parliament. Even as we go through this Protocol, it is important that we go through it with a toothcomb so that the gaps that are being exploited by people who do not mean well for this nation are sealed. It is also important to draw some consolation from the legislation that the regulations that were done in this country sometime ... view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: I think it is important for us to address ourselves to this issue, so that other countries within the Community do not accuse us of dragging the Community behind. For that reason, I support this Protocol, so that we can allow the integration of the EAC or whatever it is that we desire to do as a Community to proceed on time. view
• 10 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you. view