John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 May 2017 in National Assembly: which will tilt the scale towards the direction that I do not think will help develop this Centre. Anybody who sits on the governing body of this proposed Center must have something they are bringing to the table. view
• 11 May 2017 in National Assembly: which will tilt the scale towards the direction that I do not think will help develop this Centre. Anybody who sits on the governing body of this proposed Center must have something they are bringing to the table. view
• 11 May 2017 in National Assembly: This is a well-intentioned Bill but it is not yet ready. I hope we will get significant amendments when we get to the Committee of the whole House and during the Third Reading. With those caveats, I cautiously say that it is a good start. We need to make significant changes before we pass it in this House. view
• 11 May 2017 in National Assembly: This is a well-intentioned Bill but it is not yet ready. I hope we will get significant amendments when we get to the Committee of the whole House and during the Third Reading. With those caveats, I cautiously say that it is a good start. We need to make significant changes before we pass it in this House. view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to contribute to the Regulations before us; the various Regulations that IEBC has presented to us. First, I must thank them for getting their act together. They are beginning to deal with things that are essential to clear the way towards the preparation for elections. I also thank the Committees that have diligently ploughed through these regulations. There has been significant delay but they are finally here and we can move on with them. That is the good part. view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Let me comment on some general issues around these Regulations and the emotions they seem to evoke in different persons in this country. People have talked about trust. Trust without verification is complete naivety. You might trust as much as you can - you trust your wife, your husband and your children - but verification is an important component. I see that there is enormous concern that people who have gone to school in this Republic, probably millions of them, should not be allowed to do basic arithmetic of adding when any of these Members in this House, including myself, ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Secondly, I concur with the comments that relate to the need to curb violence. We are four months away or thereabouts. It has already become competitive and temperatures have risen. To the extent that these regulations will help infuse a sense of democracy within parties, is extremely welcome. It is not enough though to spell it out in the regulations. It is only a start. Of course, we have the law and the Constitution. All those have been in existence. What is going to be important is the true test of this IEBC; the true test of whether we should ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: The fact that we got a new Commission did not mean that, suddenly, the IEBC was up to the task and ready. It is obvious and people know it - especially those who have taken the trouble - that IEBC is significantly behind in many critical respects in preparation for the elections. They can, of course, blame the previous Commission who hanged on for too long. In fact, they have caused this country great amount of pain by hanging in there and not moving the process forward as was expected. In the area of technology, technology preparedness is now even ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: We have an issue on the need to audit the register. They have, themselves, agreed that there are mistakes. When you have such a huge database being put in place, there are obviously going to be mistakes that occur advertently or inadvertently. That is a possibility. We do not know the motivation for mistakes. We do not want to cast any aspersion. All we say and all I would say, as Member for Nambale, is that the national register has to be audited in the interest of everybody. We may be looking at each other across the aisle as if ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: It has, indeed, been demonstrated that there is need to do that audit of the register. That was said in 2007, when Kriegler wrote his report. It is still an important issue now and I suggest that both sides of the House should stand up and insist on it being audited. view