John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: I have no difficulty with that at all. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I listened intently as the President delivered his Speech to this House yesterday. Let me start with the positive side. He was eloquent. On the eloquence scale, he gets an A or an A+. The credit goes to his very good speechwriters and spin-doctors. The presentation was eloquent, but with tremendous amount of spinning, which is not unusual for a political statement of that kind. It was after all a marketing statement. He is completely within his rights to say exactly how he graded himself. I had some ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: The other day we saw the information that was released by Pandora Papers. I watched the episode on television. I heard the Former Prime Minister say that there was nothing wrong in that in law. There might be nothing wrong in law, but I do not know whether that is accurate. We go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other foreign lenders to borrow funds. We have our begging bowl around the world yet we are keeping our own money outside the country. It cannot be that all the money kept in those secret off-show accounts is legal. I ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, two days before the President’s Address, the residents of Mukuru kwa Njenga were brutally displaced to pave way for a road. That was the least uncaring thing to do. They live in a difficult environment. I wish the State had provided tents because it rained on that day and we could see blankets and torn mattresses being dried in the rain or used to cover up sewers so that people could sleep. That is not the kind of Kenya we can glow about because it was actually a major contrast. We should not be depending on ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: We must allow the IEBC to be truly independent. The problems that come out of electoral mess do not necessarily originate intrinsically from the IEBC. It is because there are serious players out there who try to manipulate the elections in their own directions leading to the kind of mess we found ourselves in previous elections. The year 2002 was a more difficult period in this country’s quest for political change, but there was no violence because there was no one from outside the electoral body trying to manipulate what the Commission was doing. In all subsequent general elections, the ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: 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
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing for the remarks that he has made. I hear what my colleagues are saying in enthusiastic support of the amendments as proposed, but I am not so enthusiastic. The Chair has said that we can see how important those DGs are because of the ongoing work in almost every part of this country. There is no work that is going on in Busia. There are people who live in some parts of the country and are seeing a lot of ... view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: engineers included. There are people who will do a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and will move on to do something on finance, law or other areas. They have somehow an understanding of the engineering, but they have also integrated themselves into the future of where things are going, where it will not just be engineers around the table. Even if they are engineers, they need to get substantive training in areas of management. One of the biggest issues we have in our roads construction is not that the engineers do not know how to do the design and understand ... view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Bill on KIRDI. The KIRDI is one of our premier institutions – I will take off my mask because of the distance and the absence of anybody near me – it is a landmark institution by intent though it has not been by performance. They have had leadership problems and value for money has usually been a challenge. This has been raised for many years in reports. I interacted with this when I was in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). But it still has good manpower. It can have ... view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: through? Who are some of the high talents they could bring on board? It is good to have heavyweight engineers sitting in KIRDI. That is good enough. But they need a serious outreach programme because we have a lot of talent on the ground. We used to have somebody in Nyeri who was making things and another who had been making an aeroplane back in the 70s. Now, people like those must be admired. There was something they could offer. Institutions of this nature should look out to our talents and abilities, particularly now that we have universities of technology, ... view