All parliamentary appearances
Entries 6131 to 6140 of 7480.
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I oppose this amendment. If we allow this amendment as it is, it is making it mandatory for an independent Commission to be liaising with Ministries and Government departments. I find that a little bit compromising the independence of an independent Commission. Unless that amendment is further amended, I would hesitate to support it as it is. So, I oppose the amendment.
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady. The Chair of the Committee, hon. Abdikadir, has requested me to move the amendments on behalf of the Committee. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 49 of the Bill be amended by deleting the word “vote” appearing after the words “number of voters who” and substituting therefor the word “concur”. This is basically to raise the threshold so that it is not only the members who vote, but members who concur that a Member of Parliament should be recalled should not be less than 50 per cent of the registered ...
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 50 of the Bill be amended in Subclause (5) by deleting the words “in the electronic media and in at least one newspaper” and substituting therefor the words “in the print and electronic media”. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, since this similar amendment has been carried through touching on electronic and print media, I hope that the House will find favour with it and will dispose of it immediately.
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I sit in the Committee. I actually resisted this amendment. I think I have an opportunity to say that this amendment, with the kind of society we are in--- So many people are illiterate and they lose their voters cards. But if their names are appearing in the register and they have the ID or a passport, why should you deny them the opportunity to exercise their right to vote and participate in electing their leaders? So, I would urge my Chair to withdraw this amendment based on the public’s mood.
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 51 of the Bill be amended in Subclause (1) by deleting the words “in the electronic media and in at least one newspaper” and substituting therefor the words “in the print and electronic media”.
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 52 of the Bill be amended by deleting Subclause (1) and substituting therefor the following new Subclause- “(1) Where a referendum question requires a “yes” or no “answer”, persons intending to campaign for or against the referendum question shall form such national referendum committees and constituency referendum committees as are necessary”. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the main reason for this is to allow more referendum committees and not just for one like when we had during the previous referendum. When we had referendum we could have allowed many people to ...
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 58 of the Bill be amended- (a) in Subclause (3) by inserting the words “a member or officer of the Commission or” at the beginning of the Subclause; and (b) by deleting Subclause (4). I want to just put a correction. Actually, the words “a member or officer” of the Commission is not coming at the beginning but replacing the words “a person”, so that it is very clear who this particular provision is stopping from aiding another person to register as a voter more than once.
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the second amendment of deleting Subclause 4 is meant to avoid situations where maybe somebody, for example, hiked a lift in my car and I am a candidate, to go and register and I am sure not whether that person had already registered elsewhere. If that could be considered as aiding, then so many candidates would be found guilty of this offence. So, those are the amendments that I propose for this House to consider.
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I support this amendment because I do not see why someone would register and then contest his registration. Why should you contest registration of another person? We will open a room for a lot of complaints. Somebody mischievous can just contest that he does not want Mbadi to be registered in Gwassi. I really did not understand why this clause was provided for, but I support the amendment.
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26 Aug 2011 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I plead with our colleagues from the other side to accept this amendment. Let us take this deletion in its totality. If you look at the provision under (c), you will see that it is too general and can be very punitive. There is no problem if someone says that hon. Mbadi will win the presidency with 80 per cent and even gives figures that in Nairobi, he can score 90 percent because sometimes politics is propaganda. Even in the USA, they just branded Obama as having been born in Mombasa. So, there is no problem. ...
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