John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. We talk about political parties aiming to acquire power. Everybody thinks of getting the presidency. Power is like air. It is all around us. It is how you acquire and control it that matters. This could be regional or sub-regional. Even the big parties that we have mentioned, for example, on the Jubilee side, are not truly national. They are regional parties but they are big. They have a right to be where they are because they have the numbers. But the small parties have this chance to ... view
• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: The countries we have referred to, for example, Nigeria has many political parties but two major ones. The US has hundreds of parties literally, but two major ones. The smaller ones create the space and foundation. In Europe - and German is a good example - the Greens are now in power-sharing arrangements. Who thought that would be? By allowing political parties to grow those roots, we are supporting democracy in a fundamental way nationally. view
• 8 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: I support these amendments. When we get to the Committee of the whole House, we will make specific proposals to strengthen the Bill. Thank you. view
• 2 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, if you indulge me, I just want to acknowledge the presence of students from a school that is in my constituency; they are in the Speaker’s Gallery. view
• 2 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, that has already been done by the Speaker. I just thought that I should formally welcome the students from Kisoko Girls’ Secondary School. view
• 2 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, you have absolute discretion, but I knew that you would indulge me in that instance. view
• 2 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill, but I have some comments that I would like to make. Resource use efficiency in the counties has not been high by the assessments done by the Office of the Controller of Budget. When absorptive capacity issues are being raised about counties, we ought to understand the resource flow timetables. We need to know when the resources arrived at the disposal of the counties to understand whether, indeed, it is a capacity issue or there are other restrictions in the way resources are flowing. Secondly, it is my strong belief ... view
• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill, but I have some comments that I would like to make. Resource use efficiency in the counties has not been high by the assessments done by the Office of the Controller of Budget. When absorptive capacity issues are being raised about counties, we ought to understand the resource flow timetables. We need to know when the resources arrived at the disposal of the counties to understand whether, indeed, it is a capacity issue or there are other restrictions in the way resources are flowing. Secondly, it is my strong belief ... view
• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: inducement for them to mobilise their own resources. One such calling from the centre, that seems to leverage that money, needs to show. We need to have some understanding on whether or not the counties are also making any effort to increase their resource collection. With those few remarks, I support the Bill. view