John Muriithi Waiganjo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to ventilate on the Report of the two Committees. I will support this Report simply because it has come at the right time. Even if this Report did not come, we would still adjourn to debate the state of insecurity in our country. This Report has come shortly after the Likoni incident and many other incidents that have happened around the country. It is evident, therefore, that Al Shabaab, or Al Qaeda, or whatever these groups are, could be signaling the coming of a wider offence in Kenya. This is ... view
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Initiative; honestly, is it Nyumba Kumi terrorism? In my view, there is need to relook into Organized Crimes Act, Money Laundering Act and other anti-terrorism laws that we recently brought before this House. Unless and until we look into those laws and see how we can tighten them, we are losing this fight to terrorists. Corruption, as has been mentioned by these Committees, is a serious issue. In fact, corruption at the Immigration Department is one of our weaknesses. It is tied to our fate. Everybody who goes there gets their travel documents from this department. This department should be ... view
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: even as we, as a country, grapple with terrorism. We must remember that most of the terrorists are also our partners in the West. Nobody is safe. I thought that these two Committees should also have looked at the matters pending before courts. They should have looked at how many matters are pending before our courts, how many cases are under investigation and how many people have skipped bail. You arrest terrorists, take them before our courts and because our Constitution is very magnanimous, particularly on the issue of human rights--- view
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, a few minutes of my time have been taken. I was going to say that there is pending before court a matter, namely Republic versus Jermaine Grant. Jermaine Grant was charged together with Fuad Abubakar. Fuada Abubakar was granted bail. He skipped bail, ran out of this country and nobody knows where he is. No information was taken back to court to indicate whether he has been arrested or not; these are the same people who are coming back to hit us. Judicial officers should exercise restraint, particularly when they are dealing with Article 49(h) ... view
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: On 21st September, 2012 there was an intelligence brief which indicated that an Israeli-owned mall would be attacked, and a year later it was attacked. We know that there were people who took tenancy within that mall a year before, so that they could 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
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: study the operations of the facility before launching the attack. Why was there no counter-intelligence? Those people would have been arrested. Hon. Deputy Speaker, in February, 2013, there was intelligence brief, according to this Report, which indicated that there would be an attack by people armed with grenades and guns. It subsequently happened. Where were the security agencies? All the intelligence reports were relayed to the security organs. What did they do? Did they sit on it? Of course, during the attack there were annoying security lapses, which led to the death of a police commander from friendly fire. Therefore, ... view
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I think this was a fairly well done and balanced Bill. It is not always easy to come up with such a Bill in a country like ours that is facing many challenges. I think the Committee did its best to balance the Bill, although I still feel that security should have been allocated more funds. This is because we are faced with many security challenges. Nevertheless, I would like to say that the Committee has done a fairly good Bill and I want to commend it. I hope that in future we should be ... view
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 24 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I hope that the National Security Council (NSC) in considering the provisions of Section 240(8)(a) and also Section 240(6)(b) where they are also supposed to assess and appraise objectives, commitments and risks to the Republic in respect of actual and potential national security capabilities--- I say that because, already, we have a mouthful. We already have our KDF in Somalia. We have seen the backlash. We hope that now when we send troops to South Sudan, we will not have a backlash like we had in Somalia. view
• 24 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Having said that, I think it is very important to agree that the NSC sends our KDF troops to South Sudan. This is coming barely two weeks after there was a commemoration in Rwanda. They were remembering the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. A gang of murderous known as Intarahamwe went on a rampage and murdered a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus, and the world did not move. Our President is the Chairman of East African Community (EAC). So, we are properly in order to release our troops to South Sudan. I think we must also learn important ... view