Johnson Arthur Sakaja

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• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: promoting national cohesion and enhancing stakeholder compliance with legal and regulatory requirements regarding cohesion and integration. They also help in mitigating the risks that predispose a country to conflict and promoting sustainable growth and development. The report is going to be tabled for Members to go through it, but either way we can still discuss this. President Barrack Obama was here last weekend and he said many things. There is nothing special about the world that he said. He just took us back to the basics. He left me with one quote that I will never forget. He said that ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Even as we move forward, we could have politics that is not based on tribe, but politics that is based on issues. Until we have politics that is based on issues, we will not go far as a country. This Sessional Paper puts up certain strategies in achieving integration and cohesion. One of them is strengthening and transforming the political and governance institutions which overtime have been characterized by excessive centralization of power and patronage. That is, indeed, the essence of devolution. Since I have realized that my time is almost getting over, I will move up to one of ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Let me wrap up the recommendations. We must deal with the issue of boundaries. Number three, we must deal with the issue of equitable sharing of employment opportunities as well as the Equalisation Fund. The regulations have come to this House. We need to bring up certain communities and areas in this country that have been successfully marginalised by previous regimes. Five, and we are very keen on this one as a Committee is that we need to ban the use of vernacular languages in public spaces and offices. It is very disheartening when you go to an office and ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank all the Members who have contributed to this. As you can see there is a realisation and acceptance that lack of cohesion is, indeed, the single biggest challenge that we must deal with in this country. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Development cannot be sustainable if there is no cohesion. We can take four years to build the Standard Gauge Railway spending billions of shillings on it but it will take only one day to uproot it and one day to destroy buildings. We must ask ourselves what is the fabric that holds our society together. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: If you were to eradicate a negative value like tribalism, you must replace it with a positive value. The challenge has been that we have never been able to truly define what a Kenyan is and what our identity is. Because of lack of our identity, people default to the closest identity they have which is the tribe. Where the tribe is one identity, for example, if you look at many areas in North Eastern, they default to the next identity which is a clan. We must define what it means to be a Kenyan. There is something more than ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Some of the issues that have been raised are issues we are looking at as a Committee. One of the ways we are thinking of solving the challenge in our public service boards in the counties that have employed people of the similar community is by proposing to have a forum where all county public service boards can transfer these people. The County Governments Act is very clear that 30 per cent of those employed in the county should not be from the dominant community. If someone has been employed in Homa Bay County, he or she can go and ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: County he or she can as well go and work in Mandera. We can keep transferring these people. We can have an exchange programme. That is one of the issue we are trying to address. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: The other issue is cattle rustling. Hon. Lelit will attest to you that I have gone with my Committee to Baragoi, West Pokot, Turkwel, Sindai, Nginyang’, Loruk in Baringo County and Turkana South with Hon. Lomenen. We have seen what ethnic animosity has done to people. We have already proposed amendments to the Penal Code to fully outlaw cattle rustling and give capital punishment. For a long time, when somebody takes cows from another community, kills, and shoots and rapes somebody, we tell wazee to sit down together and talk about it because it is cattle rustling. There is no ... view