31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
The only observation I have is the criteria through which the nominees will be selected. I think the Bill needs to go further and look into that. We have proposed organisations which will select the nominees. The criteria they are required to use should also be brought out and how they will be vetted - whether by this House or by whatever group they will come up with. It is important that we make it very clear. We know we have gone through many problems during elections and our people have died. This has all been because of bringing people ...
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31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
So, I suggest that the Committee looks further into this and comes up with criteria that will be used to nominate the panel. I think that needs to be done. The committees that are concerned with this can work together to come up with a clean Bill. As I have said, this Bill is timely because we have to move forward. We should not go behind. Let us use all the means that are available to this House to ensure that the IEBC Commissioners or the panel that will nominate the members of the IEBC is in place. Thank you ...
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24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to give a few comments on this Motion. I will start by thanking Hon. Waluke for bringing it before this House.
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24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
As has been mentioned elsewhere, if you can remember our country started off very well immediately after Independence. There was a lot of growth witnessed and the exports from this country were felt in very many places. For instance, you will remember that Ken-Knit and Raymond factories in Eldoret made very high-quality products which were exported to shops in Europe, but they collapsed. We had many industries which were producing good products in Kenya. Then a disease came of dumping second-hand clothes which killed the textile industry. We went for cheap products from eastern countries like China and others which ...
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24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
industries. The most important thing we need to look at as a country, because we know what we ought to have done and did not do is to get…
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24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
We need to go deep into the causes of what brought this country down. We need a team to go deep and find out the failures which caused these situations and get experts to advise us. This is just a question of revisiting those areas and ensuring the industries we were proud of as a country are reinstated. We also need to look at the cost of doing business because it went very high to the extent that our goods are overpriced. The Government also needs to particularly relook into the cost of power because it is contributing to overpricing ...
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24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
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20 Jun 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to comment on the Mediation Report on the Physical Planning law. I will start by congratulating the team that went in for mediation. I am sure, if the mediation did The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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20 Jun 2019 in National Assembly:
not do a good work, we would have had a law that would not be acceptable by many people. Physical planning is a very important exercise, if we have to manage our small towns properly. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, due to lack of physical planning, you will find the upcoming small towns in the peri-urban or rural areas are built in a very haphazard way with no plan. Anybody who has a plot would develop it without caring about the neighbour. So, this good law that we are legislating should be effective in ensuring that any construction or development that ...
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20 Jun 2019 in National Assembly:
I thank you.
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