John Michael Njenga Mututho

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to join my colleagues in congratulating the Minister, who has, indeed, proved his critics wrong, in the sense that he has been able to deliver much faster and more efficiently than anybody ever imagined. view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy, Sir, I would like to support the Bill and request the Minister to look again at the code of conduct during elections and during the electioneering period, particularly the period we are in now. view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Presidential candidates and other candidates have a chance to do some things which, definitely, will affect the results of the general election. I personally experienced a mess in 2005, where people, including myself, were manhandled because of the beliefs I held against the proposed Constitution then. I would also like the Minister to seriously and comprehensively look into the area of opinion polls. Opinion polls lack the ingredients critical to fair elections, particularly when they come 12 months before an election. view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill and in doing so, I want to go straight to Article 54, and ask the Minister to have a timeframe. It is open and he should specify the time. Then on the qualifications, it is important that the election law we have just dealt with here did not state the qualifications of anybody. So, it is important that for these bodies, at least, there is the minimum expected qualifications even when you have to do competitive appointments. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for avoidance of doubt, I would propose ... view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on Article 58(1), I would rather introduce Clause 58(2) to provide review of all the contracts that we are talking about because there are so many contracts. We should also provide for three which will appeal either to the High Court or to a special court that we may set up. view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: I thank you. view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. In supporting this, I want to echo what the Minister has just said that there are 5,000 pending cases. Under the circumstances, therefore, I would propose necessary amendments, so that we have more than one judge because it is not humanely possible for one person to hear and determine handle all those cases. With the enhanced Bill of Rights, it is not technically possible for somebody to hear 5,000 cases and determine them correctly and adequately, particularly given the lengthy time it takes to sort out labour disputes. I ... view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank the Minister because in life, there are little matters that people ignore and which are very important. I seek your indulgence to narrate a situation of a lady who is now in Lang’ata Prison. This lady happened to have a very wonderful husband, but who never kissed her goodnight. One night, the man came, slept and went to Heaven. The lady woke up, but because both good night and good morning were missing, she did not bother to check what was happening. It happened that at the place of work, they said ... view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I admire the way hon. Orengo has put it, but for clarity and emphasis, there are only four factors of production in agriculture, namely, land, capital, labour and management or entrepreneurship. Without land, you are nowhere. view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: The late President Jomo Kenyatta put it very well that in land lies our survival. If anyone doubts that, then you need to come and see the denudation that we are seeing in the refugee camps in northern Kenya. When the inhabitants or the people who were moving the refugees decided to bring those refugees there, they forgot that, that was a very delicate eco-system. They never supplied them with firewood. They forgot about water and everything else and they have created a micro desert because of that action. view