John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I was fidgeting here wondering what had happened. I have strong views on this even though I do not come from a community that practices FGM. I feel strongly that just like we had other practices that had specific gender biases, it may be useful to begin to focus on men. Apparently, the men who believe in this think that there is some premium obtained when a woman goes through FGM. If I was to express personal favouritism, I would say I am decidedly against people who have gone through that. I feel that they have ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I support these appointments that have been made. We are at a time in which Kenya’s image needs to go back to the golden days. These career diplomats who have been appointed know their job. We presume that they understand the current Kenya very well. They will help us as we move to the next phase of leadership. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I support the Motion. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank the Chair of the Committee, Hon. Koinange, for bringing this Report before the House. It is a very important matter to look into. I listened very carefully to what it is proposing to do. I was expecting to see a little more training into it than I heard. Maybe, I did not pay full attention. I did not hear that. I think there is need for training in terms of capacity building, but capacity building towards behavioral change. Police are exposed to a whole range of issues and, sometimes, how ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: criminal. You will go into isolation for a number of days and you pay for it and so on. Here I have arrived from somewhere outside the country. I land and it is not my fault that there is a pandemic. Now I have to end up there and I have to pay and maybe I only remained with some change. If you are coming from overseas, you are being expected to bring your money to your family and so you do not have money to pay. The beginning was bad but, of course, the Government corrected that midstream and ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Similarly, particularly in respect to the police, we had essentially forgotten them as first responders in some cases. In the village, when there is an emergency, ambulances rarely work and you have no neighbour who has a vehicle and the person cannot be able to sit on the motorbike. You can actually call the police for help and if they are lucky to have a vehicle, you can provide fuel because the vehicles are perpetually short of fuel. They may show up and help you through it. So, I think that the component of training is a very core part ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to make a brief comment to what the Leader of the Majority has just said, in respect of the variation in the Calendar. Personally, I do not believe that Coronavirus will go away any time soon, not even next year. Given the nature of its reproduction, I do not see it going away for us to go back to normality. I was wondering whether, other than proposing how we shall proceed, would it be feasible to ask, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: what is the burden of work that we have and what would it take to deliver that burden? Then we need to work back and see the implications for the kind of calendar that we should have. That is because as it is, I see a proposal of going forward in a linear way, but I worry that we may end up with a big bulge that we shall never be able to recover, especially, in the next heady days, judging by the nature of agenda that I was told was discussed in Naivasha - although I was not invited ... view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to add my voice to this proposed National Disaster Management Authority Bill. First and foremost, I think, it is one of the most important Bills that have come before the House. Many times we are terribly unprepared. I come from Busia, and when there is a fire in Busia Town, a fire truck, just a small one comes from Tororo in Uganda. By the time it gets to town, the fire has gutted down everything. So there will be people with shovels and little water who will try to put out the ... view
• 8 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: sleeping somewhere. Displacement means that total livelihood has changed. You do not know where your children are, the family is dispersed and social systems are broken. There are a lot of issues. What happened in West Pokot, Elgeyo Marakwet and adjoining areas recently, from what we saw in the media was extremely serious. We leave it to volunteer societies like the Red Cross. The Red Cross is sometimes assisted by the Government, but it is largely on its own, using its resources. That is okay, but it cannot be that as a sovereign nation, that becomes entirely the face of ... view