Joseph Wathigo Manje

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this debate. Article 132 of the Constitution gives the functions of the President of this country. Article 132(c) of the Constitution gives him the mandate to report to Parliament the progress on the realisation of the national values as referred to under Article 10 of the Constitution. Some of these values are patriotism that we should have in the country, unity, rule of law, good governance, transparency and accountability among others. It is my check that he reported well in most of these. view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: He talked about the transformative economy of this country, which he said he has put many enablers to make sure that, at least, we achieve a good economy. He projected that the economy will run at 6.1 per cent throughout to achieve that. I also want to emphasise the need of a realisation that this is an agricultural-based economy. We should put more funds in agriculture to make sure that we realise a good economy. We should also promote small businesses. I have realised that the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is not very friendly to small businesses. When people start ... view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: The President also talked about the BBI, which is the right way to go. It should be the real thing in the country. We did not need to have the “handshake” because we should live as Kenyans to make sure that we appreciate each other in our diversity. We should support him on that and emphasise that is the right way to go. view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: The President emphasised that corruption compromises most of our achievement of our goals. We cannot achieve the Vision 2030 if we do not do something about corruption. We should make sure that we strengthen the institutions that have been given the mandate to fight corruption. He also emphasised and advised that corruption is not good. We are teaching our children and generations to come a bad vice. I know there are people who inherently appreciate corruption. It is not a good value. It is not a virtue. If you are corrupt, you are not hard working. If you enrich yourself ... view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: The Head of State also mentioned the issue of not turning back on devolution. He emphasised the need to make sure that we have functional county governments. I want to applaud him on this because I know county governments are operating. We can see resemblance of something operating in our counties. If you go to any county, you will see some good structures. That is the way to go in our country. I emphasise the fact that money should be sent to counties promptly. We should have a particular date that it is sent to the county, so that governors ... view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: On the Big Four Agenda, he emphasised the issue of manufacturing. He has given enablers like the low cost of energy that he is advocating for, education and ICT, which are doing very well and the SGR). They will spur the achievement of the Big Four Agenda. On international obligation, the President has signed 280 treaties. We are online emphasising on them. view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Lastly, on security, he talked about the creation of border police posts, which is a good thing to do and the creation of 15,000 Nyumba Kumi clusters, which will come in handy. view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: I support the President’s Speech. Thank you very much. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute because I have been waiting. I want to appreciate the work done by the PAC. We do not go very far because we do not implement recommendations by committees of Parliament. If you draw parallel between implementation and corruption, you will find that all the reports we have been coming up with in this Parliament have never been implemented to the full. That is why we have repetition of the same things. I was drawing a parallel between the particular uses of money by the IEBC in ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The same thing happened in 2017. Why should we repeat the same? I sat in PAC in the previous Parliament for five years and the Report we are reading today is similar to what we recommended then. How can the House sit in vain? We recommend something, it is not enacted 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. view