Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 11 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, my brother who is a doctor has told Kenyans that since the Jubilee Government took over, the number of deaths even on the roads has increased. He knows he cannot substantiate that. In actual fact, the reports we have been getting from the police since the speed limits started being implemented until now is that there has been a sharp drop in the number of deaths on the roads in this country. Is he is order to mislead us? Can he substantiate his sentiments that the number of deaths has increased in this country since the Jubilee ... view
• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Hon. colleagues, I would like to thank you for voting in support of this Bill. Very quickly, I would like to inform those who may not be in the know that this Bill, originally, the National Youth Employment Authority Bill, is a Bill that seeks to establish mechanisms which will streamline the job market in this country to create job centres in the country to address the issue of unemployment which has majorly affected our young people. This Bill has taken a while to come to where it is. Initially, it was a Bill ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Indeed, the issues that have been raised are of great concern to us all. I concur with Members on some of the sentiments. This is a matter we also discussed in the House Business Committee (HBC). I urge our Members that in as much as we are affected, we should look beyond ourselves because there could be other agencies of State that are really affected. This is a matter of Budget implementation. This House has committees that oversee the National Treasury. If it is a matter of revenue collection, we have a committee that oversees ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I want to clarify further. First of all, I have dropped my amendment. I interacted with the Committee and we discussed this at length. The National Youth Employment Authority will be very well placed to serve all Kenyans. It will be bad if a Kenyan of 36 years will be denied service. So, throughout the Bill, we have agreed to open up the Authority to Kenyans of all ages; even if you do that, majority of those who are unemployed in this country are the youth anyway. We have agreed with the Committee and ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is an amendment that will also run throughout the Bill in terms of the import. I would like Members to listen to me very carefully on my amendment to Clause 4. The one on the Order Paper is the Departmental Committee’s amendment. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, you will realise that the Authority that we are creating, as we explained earlier, is a national Authority to deal with matters of unemployment. Of course, it will give affirmative action to the youth as per Article 55 of our Constitution. If you go through the Bill, you will ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: in the Senate. We are almost at the end of this Session. If this Bill is not expedited in the Senate and comes back to us by December, it will lapse completely and we will have to publish it again from the beginning. To get to this stage, this Bill has taken two years. Therefore, I persuade Members to agree that for now, because funds are available for the operation of the Authority, the Authority starts operating. Once the Bill is assented to, even as soon as next week; we can bring amendments to tie in the county governments to ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: That is a typing error. The amendment should read as follows:- “THAT, Clause 4 be amended in paragraph (a) by deleting the words “and county governments”. There is no substitution. That substitution bit is a typing error. We will bring in an amendment to include the county governments once this Authority is operationalised, so that we do not lose the entire Bill because of timing issues. When Parliament moves into the next Session, which is in January, any Bill that will not be concluded by then will have lapsed. We will have to start again from pre-publication to publication, First ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I just want to be very simple for the Members who have asked for clear clarification including Dr. Nyikal, who is now not listening. To get to this stage, this Bill has taken two years - one year of research - from pre- publication to where it is at this point. At the end of the day, we want to establish an authority that serves both national and county governments. We have to be realistic. If at this point we insist on having these provisions, we will lose the entire Bill. This is out of experience. ... view
• 7 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I do not have an amendment on this. It makes sense. Clause 5 says that all persons subject to this Act shall at all times respect, uphold and defend the values and principles of the Constitution. The Constitution tells people to do that and so it is superfluous here. view