Johana Ngeno Kipyegon

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: We went through many things and we only hope that the people who are supposed to act on the issues will do so. view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my contribution to this Bill. As most of my colleagues have said, this Bill is long overdue because most governors have not put matters of appointments into serious consideration. Appointments to positions, especially the CECs and chief officers, has always been done by the governor without serious consultation with MCAs. This Bill is very timely. It will allow serious competitive appointments to positions in the counties. view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Most of the people who serve in the counties did not go through serious vetting. It was only done by the County Public Service Board which was appointed by governor to assist them to sanitise members whom they wanted to employ in particular positions. The products of the County Public Service Boards have never been of any good to the county. This Bill is timely. Most people who were qualified to serve in positions like CECs and the COs were literally removed from the list of interviewees because their political alignments were different, yet they were qualified in most of ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: I support this Bill. I know very well it will go a long way in assisting us to get the right people to serve in certain positions in the county. The only problem that we have in this Bill is the question of tyranny of numbers in county assemblies. Sometimes in the National Assembly, we find it hard to reject people who we know have some background which does not fit to serve in public positions, but because of tyranny of numbers, we normally look at them, scrutinise them and allow them to serve. We thought that we did our ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: This Bill will allow county assemblies to take the powers which they are supposed to have from the governors. Governors have been having these powers. We only hope that MCAs will use their powers to serve the people and recruit the right people to serve in those positions without necessarily falling prey to the governors and the tyranny of numbers. We were discussing a Bill here which was talking about the education level of MCAs. We thought the most fundamental part of the obligation of MCAs is to make appointments or to vet employees to serve in certain positions. For ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Contesting suitability by members of the public is also very important. Sometimes we look at the qualification of a person, but we also need to look at the suitability of that particular person, so that we know if he is fit to serve in the position he is being vetted for. This is the major work of MCAs. The vetting committees of county assemblies will look at the procedure of appointment, constitutional requirements and suitability of candidates. These are the three fundamental things which are needed in any appointment to a position. Constitutional requirements and suitability of a candidate are ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of rejection of the person to be vetted or approved by county assemblies. What is the procedure if members of a vetting committee reject a candidate? This part of rejection is quite important because in most cases, governors normally bulldoze people to those positions. There is a clause which allows for rejection. It allows MCAs or vetting 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
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: committees to exercise their powers on matters of qualification and suitability unlike where the governor bulldozes and does whatever he wants regardless of whether the candidate is qualified or not. This clause provides that the governor may not bring back one of the candidates who have been rejected. This is good. I like this part because some people will misuse powers. The powers of those committees are comparable to the powers of the High Court. I agree with one of my colleagues who proposed that the powers of the county assemblies should be equal to those of Senior Resident Magistrate ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Candidates must produce records from EACC or the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to prove their credibility. It is very unfortunate that some officers of the EACC are not credible. I am wondering whether candidates will prove their credibility because the EACC have issues. We should have a very credible EACC, so that whoever goes there to get documents is cleared by a very credible Commission. There is another requirement dealing with the Higher Education Loans Board. This law was meant to assist students from poor families to access education just like the rest of Kenyans. Imagine of a situation where ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: There is another requirement by the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB), which was meant to block people who have defaulted bank loans from borrowing from other banks. It was not meant to deny them employment opportunities. This requirement should only apply to bank defaulters. I support. view