Jimmy Angwenyi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Motion. view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute on this very important matter. First, I what to thank Hon. Junet for bringing it up. view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: I am a very worried man. I am a founding Member of the Parliamentary Service Commission and I paid for it. I wonder why the media wants to degrade MPs and the institution of Parliament. This Parliament is not wicked as the media wants to portray us. They should remember that they would not operate in this country if there was no Parliament. Let them research on those countries where there is a very weak Parliament or no Parliament at all. Do the media in those countries effectively operate? They do not. They are effective in this country because we ... view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: They can try to defile and weaken us but I urge all Members of Parliament to stand up and defend our position and integrity. That is what we had to go through in the year 2000. We had to stand up against a very strong Executive for us to enact a law to change the Constitution to establish the Parliamentary Service Commission. The Constitution is very clear. It states the mandate of the Parliamentary Service Commission. It is to make sure that they provide facilitation for Members of Parliament so that they can be effective and efficient in the provision ... view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as you said, right now the Parliamentary Service Commission is operating illegally. There is no Act which provides for Members of the Parliamentary Service Commission to come from the Senate. There is no Act like that. In fact, if they are opposed to this Bill, we should remove those Members and reappoint me back there. view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: The Leader of the Majority Party has said we sympathised with them and, therefore, we must include them in the discussion of this Bill. We have no sympathy for anybody who wants to destroy us. We do not have any sympathy. I have been in the army. I was in the army when I was a young person and you never ever have sympathy for your opponent or the person who wants to destroy you. So, we should have no sympathy for those people who are saying they want to destroy us. We should forgive the Head of State, the ... view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Minister, at Marani in Nairobi - not in Kisii - and he was in a very foul mood. I asked him in dholuo words view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Okay. I withdraw, Hon. Speaker. He told me he had been misinformed and that is why he gave a statement attacking the Bill which, in fact, he would support. He said he will tell Members of his party to support the Bill. I am sure it has been testified here by Hon. Junet and Hon. Mbadi that actually he has now told them he is regretting having given that statement which was misguided. view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: I do not want to take too much time. view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Let me wind up by telling our Members who all agree to support this Bill and make sure it passes to say aye. view