Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House today:- The Report of the Joint Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity on the consideration of Session Paper No.9 of 2013 on National Cohesion and Integration. Thank you. view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, as much as it is deeply regrettable and I really commiserate with the Member for having stayed for that long, this is not an issue that is unique to him. We have heard many Members with similar complaints. Our Standing Orders are very silent on the period that a Committee can take during the pre-publication period of a Bill. The mandate of a Member of Parliament is to do legislation. We are proposing and I have proposed this before that the Procedure and House Rules Committee of this House sets administrative timelines for which a Bill can ... view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Many Members have very good Bills that can change a lot in this country, but they are not able to get them even through the pre-publication stage. I have gone through it myself and I hope we can take it seriously as a proposal that we actually set pre-publication administrative deadlines. It should not only be the time a Bill takes before it is published but, even once it has been published, between the Second Reading and Third Reading at the Committee when it has been forwarded to the relevant Committee, it should take a certain period of time. If ... view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for bringing up this issue because it is a matter that we must deal with. This Bill cannot be amended. It is true that Article 255 talks about matters that can go to a referendum, including the term of office of a president. If you look at Article 142 of the Constitution, it determines the term of the office of a president. It reads:- “The President shall hold office for a term beginning on the date on which the President was sworn in, and ending when ... view
• 4 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 4 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, as much as I understand where my colleague on the other side is coming from on this matter, he has been in this House longer than me. However, Standing Orders stipulate that once a Committee has laid a Report in the House, it becomes the property of the entire House and it is not a property of the Committee anymore. He might have a different interest on the issue of the ‘Hustler’s Jet’, but once a Committee has tabled its Report, the Report is a property of the House. The Report has been debated. That is why ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. First, I want to congratulate the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare for the time it has spent on a number of Sessional Papers. Those Sessional Papers – and that is what we were just discussing with the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs - are very important. That is the exposition of Government policy in those areas. It is from these Sessional Papers that actual legislation, ideally, should be drawn from. Laws should always follow the policy. This is a very ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: If you look at our country today, Kenya is, indeed, driving the African renaissance in terms of economic matters. I think this is well timed. Just this past weekend, the focus of the entire world has been on this country in terms of seeing Kenya as the new hub for entrepreneurship, innovation and largely productivity. Indeed, we have been doing well. I would like to really congratulate the Jubilee Government because at this point, we have a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of US$53.4billion and per capita income of US$1,246. We had underrated our economy by 25 per cent. Once it ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: The issue of productivity culture must be addressed in the same way we are trying to address the culture of entrepreneurship. This means that in the entire narrative by Government in encouraging Kenyans to be more productive and to use the factors of production well - whether it is land and whatever resources they have and even infusing this into the education system right from primary school - is just about good stewardship. We talk about being a good steward of what you have in the church. If you are a good steward with the little you have, you get ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can see that my light is on. So, I will try to wind up. I wish we had more time because this Sessional Paper is quite big. Let me talk about technological change and innovation. In February, I was in San Francisco as part of a delegation of this House. We went to the Institute for the Future. We know San Francisco as being the Silicon Valley and the home of innovation in the world. Even there, they were realising that the Silicon Savannah - which is what Kenya is now - is giving them ... view