John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Yes, I am speaking to this, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was trying to be current by consulting here. I am talking about the Division of Revenue Bill. That is the one I wanted to speak to. That is all I was seeking to confirm. view
• 23 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on that, I had a very small contribution to make. I did not see any indication that our Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology was involved. Treaties relating to learning disabilities and its provisions ought to be vetted and agreed upon by the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology at the minimum because finally it is in that sector that this kind of facilitation, as a nation, would occur. That would have been useful. I presume probably the stakeholders in the industry may have looked at it. For it to be entirely on the ... view
• 23 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to make a contribution to these reports that are on the Floor today. No nation exists in isolation. Nations, like families, need to exist harmoniously with each other, so that they can achieve the common 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
• 23 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: good for mankind. I take note particularly on the Report on national security that I have had a chance to look at and I realise that the Government has many initiatives. Some of them do not as coherently put Kenya in the field as is put in the Report, but certainly, there is an attempt in each of these areas. However, there are some lingering issues that have not abated and it important that we looked at them. On the issue around petty insecurity, terrorism and corruption, unfortunately, these are issues that go to individual households of this Republic and ... view
• 23 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: impunity. With impunity, people disregard the law and the fight against corruption becomes a real problem in future. Within our region, the indexes that are published by institutions like Transparency International (TI), have rated us low. There are countries within the region that are doing better than us. If we measure ourselves against the global scale, we are doing badly. We need a complete dedication to crack down corruption at all levels of our society, including the lowest levels, where the impact is greatest. We are discussing a report that was brought to us in March, 2016. This tells us ... view
• 23 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise to contribute to this Bill. It is an important one in any society that is aspiring to become civilised. I have one fundamental worry about the general thrust of the Bill. We live in a society in which the law enforcement agencies do not respect even their own citizens. They usually handle ordinary people in a very intimidating way. They do so in a way that shows no respect, especially when people go to report crimes. It is full of threats and so on. Here we get a Bill that is saying that when you have ... view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: operate knowing that you cannot do anything to them. You would be unable to extract information. I think we need a balance. These people must be separated from society if they are going to become wilful criminals all the time. If we go this way, we run the risk of doing what we did some few years ago when our prisoners had three square meals and clean, washed uniforms. They had access to television and yet the societies which they come from do not have any of those. In a sense you can almost say that there is an incentive ... view
• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Motion on the adoption of the ratification of the Agreement between the Governments of Kenya and the USA on threat reduction biological engagement programmes. It is very important, indeed, that we are able to hook onto the capacity like that of larger countries like the US. In the entire world, the custodians of these most dangerous pathogens are countries like the US, Russia and China. They have the will to destroy the entire world if they so choose. I guess it is in our interest that we have some cooperation. One ... view