John Muriithi Waiganjo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to drop my amendment. view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to drop my amendment. view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support this Bill. Today, we are very fortunate as a House because we are now able to ventilate and debate the most important pieces of legislation considering that we have seven months to go to party primaries. We need a lot of sanity in our political parties so that our electoral process can be one that brings to this House and our county assemblies leaders who are truly a reflection of the voters’ choice. I have heard my good friend intimate that he does not regret blowing the ... view
• 31 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: him. I want to state clearly that this law was coming anyway. Let it not appear that this law has been brought by the Select Committee. In fact, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs dealt with these matters before the Select Committee was formed. It has always been my opinion that the Select Committee, despite having done a good job, would have its work end up here in Parliament. Remember, people went to the streets. They lost their lives and properties were destroyed. This was to confirm that this House was not capable of doing legislation that would ... view
• 30 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. In my reading of the Constitution and the current law and what we are trying to do now, I read mischief in trying to bring an amendment that now appears to delete or oust the discretion of the CS in driving issues of policy. First of all, those who are saying that this “flies” on the face of Articles 209 and 210 of the Constitution are forgetting that this law exists as it is and we do not even have a proper policy and we are still legislating. In this House, we have a ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Public Appointments (County Assemblies Approval) Bill be now read a Second Time. This Bill has emanated from the Senate. The purpose of this Bill is to give a legal framework to the county assemblies. view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I was saying that this is a Bill for the approval of public appointments by county assemblies and for connected purposes. That is the title of the Bill. This Bill is long overdue and it has come at the right time. The objects and purposes of this Bill is to provide for the procedure for the approval of public appointments by county assemblies. As members know, there does not exist any legal framework for the procedure of approval of public appointments in county assemblies. This has precipitated a problem whereby the county assemblies do not have ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: opportunity to know about ongoing appointments within the counties. They need to know that people who are appointed are known to them, qualify and those who meet the legal and the constitutional threshold. After the advertisement, it is required that the committee of a county assembly, pursuant to a notice issued under Sub-section 1, does the appointment within 21 days. This ensures that once the advertisement is made and the notification is done, the public is informed of the person nominated by the nominating authority. This is important because an ordinary Kenyan would know that a proposed nominee is from ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: appointed because they campaigned for the governor, or are related to the speakers of various county assemblies. This law will expose the rot in our counties. This law ensures that an ordinary Kenyan can contest an appointment. An ordinary Kenyan can rise on a point and say that they do not agree with a certain appointment and because there is an approval hearing, they will be required to give evidence. Therefore, people will be given a fair hearing. Natural justice will prevail in this case. Therefore, whenever this is contested, nominees are given an opportunity to be heard and defend ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: The other important thing is that the person who is vetted must give a statement of his net worth and tax status. Because this is a public approval hearing, the public will know. If you get a docket and you start working and then in a year you have two lorries and a farm of 100 acres, and yet when you were appointed to that position, your net worth and tax status was nil, the public will ask how you amassed this wealth overnight. As we go to the next election, it is important to relook into the law of ... view