18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance. Let me also thank the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (JLAC) and the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC). Both speakers spoke very calmly about this Bill. “General” Kioni especially, was able to take us down the line on how he went around issues of this Referendum Bill. Therefore, from his speech, I noticed that this is a process that needed to happen and had to happen at a particular time, which is now. Therefore, it is well placed before the House for discussion. The forthcoming referendum is a very ...
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18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
process that is driven by the people themselves. In this case, the one that shall be coming has been driven by the people themselves. I would, therefore, wish that as we speak on this, and especially when we move to the Third Reading where we shall have amendments, we, the legislators, will look at the law without attaching it to any event that is coming. After all, we have had three or two referendums in this country before and they were there without this law. But we have been given a chance to make a law that will now be ...
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18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
a person is registered, that will be very weak. Remember when we had the Punguza MzigoInitiative; they lost, partly, because they had presented names of people who were not in the register and some whose signatures had been forged. It is our business as Parliament - and that is why the law is here - to come up with a specific method that we can give IEBC. Let us not surrender our guard simply because we want to move fast. If anything, it is not a matter of moving fast because BBI has already gone through the IEBC. We are ...
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18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
You know I could not stop until I hear from you.
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18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I request for a statement on the Kenya Defence Forces recruitment process in Emuhaya Sub-County. Hon. Speaker, the recently advertised and now ongoing recruitment of youth into the KDF raised a lot of expectations among the youths due to the high unemployment rate and the benefits that accrue to an individual, family and community in general when one joins this esteemed Force. Hon. Speaker, during the recruitment process, more than 3,000 youths turned up for the exercise. However, only 2 of the more than three thousand were taken. This left the question on the number of slots allocated ...
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18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you. Let him go to the Standing Orders and learn. I wanted to speak to the issue of public participation.
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18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I request for a statement on the Kenya Defence Forces recruitment process in Emuhaya Sub-County. Hon. Speaker, the recently advertised and now ongoing recruitment of youth into the KDF raised a lot of expectations among the youths due to the high unemployment rate and the benefits that accrue to an individual, family and community in general when one joins this esteemed Force. Hon. Speaker, during the recruitment process, more than 3,000 youths turned up for the exercise. However, only 2 of the more than three thousand were taken. This left the question on the number of slots allocated ...
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18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
(iv) Could the Chairperson explain what measures were taken to ensure that gender parity and that all wards in the sub-counties were considered during the KDF recruitment exercise carried out in Emuhaya Sub-county and Kenya as a whole? Thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
(iv) Could the Chairperson explain what measures were taken to ensure that gender parity and that all wards in the sub-counties were considered during the KDF recruitment exercise carried out in Emuhaya Sub-county and Kenya as a whole? Thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
But, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the person who talked about me is not having a mask. Did you note that he did not have one?
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