Jimmy Angwenyi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise on a point of order to seek clarification from you whether we can give blanket condemnation in this House without substantiation and, therefore, inhibit free and factual discussion of issues. I would like hon. Mbadi and the Leader of Majority Party to state clearly who has received money and if so, have those people been investigated by the agencies concerned? Otherwise, we are putting this House into disrepute by peddling blanket rumours in this House. Was hon. Mbadi given money to raise this question? view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. While I commend the Committee for having taken over this matter and tried to resolve it, I want to raise concern about the indulgences of this House in the other branches of the Government. I would like to know when this Cabinet Secretary contravened the law, was the matter reported to the Cabinet? Did the President and the Deputy President know about that contravention or are we doing the work of the President? This House will deviate from its purpose and objectives if we micromanage the Government. We will expose ourselves to ridicule if we ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I would like to refer the man I respect most - he can summon me even at midnight and I will appear in his office, namely the Leader of Majority Party in this House - to Article 153(2). It reads that:- “(2) Cabinet Secretaries are accountable individually, and collectively, to the President for the exercise of their powers and the performance of their functions”. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: They are not accountable to this House. So, I am saying that we should have exhausted that provision. Once we have exhausted it, then we can use our overwhelming The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: powers. For that reason, and I want to persuade this House very honestly that if we involve ourselves in small matters of the PSC, we will not be able to perform our major functions of this House. With those few remarks, I beg to contribute. view
• 22 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: We are the first. view
• 22 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise to contribute to this Motion on two or three accounts. One, you cannot gag Parliament from discussing issues unless they touch on matters of substance like my sister said. If we were to be gagged, we have no business being in this House. Also, if we were to be gagged and we let the committees operate without timelines then some important issues for this nation may not be resolved. The second issue is that although we have the oversight role to play in this country we cannot micromanage other sectors of Government in this country. I ... view
• 22 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Those are my remarks and I hope you will decide that the members referred to here are members of that Select Committee because they are the only ones who know the substance. If I am not a member of that Committee, I would not know the substance and so I can talk about it. view