Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to confirm. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to confirm for the record of this House, because I would want to believe that what my leader meant was that the Chair is an expert in matters of plagiarism, especially of academic books and papers. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Allow me at the very onset to thank the Senate Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industrialization for having dealt with this matter quite efficiently and effectively. On behalf of the Nairobi traders and importers, I wish to thank the Committee. They were received very well and the Committee took time to listen to them. I also believe the Committee was able to listen to other agencies interested in this issue. The only little blight on that is the fact that the Committee was not able to get back to me on this matter as ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: back, especially if the petitioner(s) have been represented by a colleague in the House. I have also seen this report for the first time. I would like to agree with the Senate Majority Leader that we need to look at our rules and find a way through which we give life to the responses to petitions, so that they do not go and find themselves in a certain shelf. There should be an implementation mechanism. There should also be a manner maybe through a Motion that we can debate it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, very quickly, I would like to ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. The Bill by Sen. Pareno, as brief as it may be, is good because it addresses one of the most cardinal principles of our Constitution. The framework of the constitutional order that we have now is one that, first of all, affirms in Article 1 that all sovereign power rests with the people. It further qualifies that, and says that the power can only be exercised through the Constitution. It goes further to say that the people can exercise their power directly or through their elected representatives. That then gives us the theory of representation. ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Senate is an equalising House. It is not a representative house in the strict legal term of “representativeness.” This is because it is not about the number of people you represent, but the fact that we have divided our country into counties which deserve equal representation. It then becomes a House of balancing the excesses of the tyranny of democracy. Just as every Member of the National Assembly has an equal number of votes and those who are many can then determine how decisions are made, in the Senate, the Senator of Nairobi City County, with ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the constitutional order we have places a lot of premium on the principles of inclusivity and public participation, as enshrined in Article 10 of the Constitution. It is then important for us to ensure that we always remember that we are not just exercising donated sovereignty by the people. We need to ensure that the people are able to access institutions of representation and governance such as the National Assembly, the Senate and the county assemblies; and that their voices are heard. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: It is not the situation as it was before; that once you have elected someone, they can go, do whatever they want to do with the power you have given them, and then come back after five years to seek an additional mandate. That is why this Bill is important; for us to set standards for all the county assemblies through which an ordinary citizen of a county can present their prayers. These will be prayers on the issues affecting them as individuals, communities or whatever shade of interest they might be representing, to the house that represents them, called ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: It is in the same breath, Madam Temporary Speaker, that we were looking at the County Enforcement Officers Bill, as proposed by Sen. Khaniri earlier this morning. In as much as every county has the power to do that for themselves, it is important to establish uniform standards across the country of how democracy is expressed and even how enforcement of the law is done. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this Bill comes at a time when, the world over, there has emerged the need to redefine democracy. There is a lot of apathy in this world to institutions of governance by the normal citizens. Some of this apathy has been expressed through the BREXIT vote and the elections in the United stated of America (USA) before. The people are not feeling as connected to institutions of leadership. Remember that even where we are today, we are implementing a system of governance that was designed in the 19th century. The world over, the holy triad of the ... view