John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to comment on this Motion. As you said repeatedly, this is where business is done in the House. Judging by my experience from the 11th 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
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Parliament, I sometimes wondered whether we, in this Parliament, were not abdicating our role of oversight. It seemed like oversight should be done only by the Minority Party and not the Majority Party. Parliament has a fundamental role to oversee the Executive. Whether you are in the same party with the Executive or not, there is certain minimum critical evaluation that you need to do. My experience with the vetting in the last Parliament was quite mixed. Sometimes we had such noise that you would think we were in a public rally because people are uncomfortable with critical evaluation of ... view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we need your protection. The House is consulting too loudly. We cannot hear each other. We need to enforce strictly the rules of the House, particularly in the committees, so that there can be orderly participation by non-committee members. We have had the occasion… view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, non-members of committees have a right under the Standing Orders to participate. When it was turned into a circus… view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Now that we can hear each other, I was saying that we have enjoined the responsibility of overseeing the Executive whether or not you are in the Majority Party or the Minority Party. There is a purpose for this process. We get policies and programmes that are in line with the public policy that has been agreed upon and presented to this House. If we begin to say that because we are the majority, we must always support, we lose the essence of oversight. A lot of those incidences happened in the last Parliament. Whereas any ... view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: both sides of the House last time. That is not excusable. I would hope that we get tighter rules to address such situations. The quality for committee discussions depends on the intensity with which Members apply themselves during the proceedings of committees. Technical appearances at committees undermine the capacity of committees to produce harmonious reports at the end of the day. We should have a way in which we get certain minimum critical participation in committees that are always involved in sometimes fairly controversial work. It might be the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) or other committees as well. There must ... view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have a very quick message. I come from Nambale Constituency, Busia County; the border county where trade is extremely important. I wish that the members that have been elected today will be East Africans first, Kenyans second and in that role help build the economy of East Africa, so that our people can have jobs and opportunities. Busia will be the gateway into and out of Kenya. view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Motion. The East African Community is a critically important regional organisation. It is an institution that is intended to help drive the economies of the member countries in this region. It has suffered setbacks from time to time over the last 40 to 50 years. It is, again, beginning to struggle. We can see the political orientation of the Heads of State of the member countries. They do not always seem to pull in the same direction. That should be a cause for worry for future generations in the region. A ... view
• 13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: economies of the member countries in which Kenya was a founding and active member, I am quite encouraged that we have the talent and level of experience of people who will be able to contribute to this. We have people who have seen this from the beginning, particularly the last 50 years from the mid-1960s, when we moved from the East African Common Service Organisation to what has now become the Community. People like Hon. Oburu Oginga will be able to give a perspective not only of institutional memory but also solid thinking that should help drive what should be ... view