John Lodepe Nakara

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute on these regulations. I have read some of them and they may encourage fair and peaceful elections. On the issue of communication in polling stations, there are negative and positive aspects. If we allow communication to take place between the agents, election officials and aspirants, it will cause a lot of problems. We need to discourage it and there should be no communication inside polling stations. This is because some aspirants will feel that those speaking to the election officials are bribing them or saying something against them. These ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: During the election process, an aspirant may pass by to see what is going on in the polling station. Sometimes, the election officials embarrass that aspirant by telling him/her to get out of that place or otherwise they will call the police officers. This completely discourages them yet an aspirant has freedom to pass by and see what is going on. I appeal to the Chairman to include an amendment in these regulations which will allow aspirants to pass by the polling stations to see what is going on so that the elections will be free and fair. It does ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Another issue is the attached forms. They must be filled by a person who has gone to school because if you miss a sentence, you miss nominations. On education, we need to give minimum requirements which will enable one to fill these forms because some of them are very complicated. I want to encourage the Chairman to give minimum education requirements for aspiring candidates. For example, just like Parliament, we expect the MCAs to debate Bills and Motions in an organised manner using proper language so that even the electorate can see that they elected people who represent them well. view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: By looking at the volume of these regulations, you may think they are suspicious but mostly there are just forms to be filled. I want to ask the Chairman to come up with a smaller volume which will encourage us to read them. We need the regulations to be separated from the forms so that it will be easy for members to read. Finally, I am happy about the way the regulations have been laid out. I want to encourage discipline to be exercised in political parties’ primaries. If we do not do it well at the primaries level, the ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: We want political parties to assure all aspirants whether they will win or lose that the nominations will be free and fair. Even though one loses, he/she will have failed honourably and accept the results. By doing so, this will make them to accept failure. Finally, another painful thing which we will experience very soon is that after nominations, some candidates who will have lost will be in this House for the remaining three months knowing that they will not be coming back. This will be tormenting and discouraging. I wish we can have a Regulation whereby if one fails ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: We expect elders like Midiwo, who have experience in this issue to make sure that nominations are held towards the end of the term so that when one loses they go home rather 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
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: than come back here and be called former Members or Senators. It is shameful to come back and be called a former Member and yet you are still sitting on this honourable seat. In future, we need to look into this otherwise, for those who will lose nominations and come back here we will need to prepare psychologists and counsellors to help them go through the remaining months in this House. view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support. view
• 29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. First of all, I want to thank Hon. Grace Kiptui for tabling this Bill. It has been an issue that pastoralists have struggled with, to make sure our children access basic education. We want to have a law to make basic education compulsory. It will become an offence for any parent who refuses to take his or her child to school for basic education. When we make it compulsory and an offence for the parents who deny their children an opportunity to go to ... view
• 29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for making such comments to our students. I know they will be encouraged leaving this place knowing that you have recognised them. We need to make basic education compulsory for all people. For the parents who do not take their children to school, it must be an offence that can be dealt with so that every person in this country makes sure that his children have basic education. In addition to that, if we provide basic education to our children at an early age, communication in this country will be good because wherever you ... view