Joseph Wathigo Manje

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to support this important amendment. Just as food is a basic need for human life, security is a basic need for a country to develop. It is such basic that if a country does not have good security, it will hardly develop because investors cannot invest in that country. Our police forces have the responsibility of enforcing security in our country. Therefore, it is paramount that they are properly compensated in case of injury or death in service. They should be paid good salaries and allowances for the good ... view
• 10 May 2017 in National Assembly: then we are still doing it the wrong way. We should change the method of recruiting. The current one is very discriminative. If you discriminate somebody because of height which is natural, then I think it is discriminative in nature. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we cannot also forget that there are emerging issues in the country. This is where you see the society or Kenyans becoming hostile. This is indicative of lack of policy or proper method. There are many incidences of mob justice that are going on in our country. That means that law enforcers are not doing their ... view
• 10 May 2017 in National Assembly: then we are still doing it the wrong way. We should change the method of recruiting. The current one is very discriminative. If you discriminate somebody because of height which is natural, then I think it is discriminative in nature. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we cannot also forget that there are emerging issues in the country. This is where you see the society or Kenyans becoming hostile. This is indicative of lack of policy or proper method. There are many incidences of mob justice that are going on in our country. That means that law enforcers are not doing their ... view
• 10 May 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we also have to restrain our policemen not to use the old method of apprehending criminals. Those old days, the policemen used to round up suspects, profile them and remove those who are not suspects. They assume everybody is a suspect until you are left out. We should change the approach. The policemen should get evidence before they go to arrest somebody. That was done in the old days and it is happening today. Every time and every weekend, you will hear police officers have gone and rounded up some people, put them in cells and ... view
• 10 May 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we also have to restrain our policemen not to use the old method of apprehending criminals. Those old days, the policemen used to round up suspects, profile them and remove those who are not suspects. They assume everybody is a suspect until you are left out. We should change the approach. The policemen should get evidence before they go to arrest somebody. That was done in the old days and it is happening today. Every time and every weekend, you will hear police officers have gone and rounded up some people, put them in cells and ... view
• 10 May 2017 in National Assembly: woman puts a kid in school and within three years, he or she is transferred to another place. We should start thinking of how to compensate them so that they can also help their families. Lastly, I would like to thank my people of Kajiado North and Kajiado County for coming out in large numbers to give me a chance to continue serving them. They have nominated me to contest for the seat through a Jubilee ticket. I hope in August they will do the same. Thank you. I support the Bill. view
• 10 May 2017 in National Assembly: woman puts a kid in school and within three years, he or she is transferred to another place. We should start thinking of how to compensate them so that they can also help their families. Lastly, I would like to thank my people of Kajiado North and Kajiado County for coming out in large numbers to give me a chance to continue serving them. They have nominated me to contest for the seat through a Jubilee ticket. I hope in August they will do the same. Thank you. I support the Bill. view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to support the Budget Report of the 2017/2018 Budget. This is a Kshs2.6 trillion Budget and it will go a long way to do justice to Kenyans. This is a good Budget, but I would like the Committee in future to consider what our country is based on. Kenya is an agricultural-based economy and that is where we should start from, so that we can improve our country. In 1978, our economy was doing very well. Remember we were compared to countries like Singapore and Malaysia. We lost track ... view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: The amount of money we are giving to the State Department of Agriculture is about Kshs16 billion and Kshs6 billion goes to the recurrent budget. What goes to capital production is only Kshs10 billion. If you compare the State Department for Agriculture to other departments, you will find that it is underfunded. We need to look into the State Departments in the Government which are directly involved with production of basic necessities like the State Department of Livestock, Fisheries and Blue Economy and Irrigation. If we compare and see the amount of money that we give to them compared to ... view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the chance to contribute to this Motion. I support the President. He highlighted the state of the nation. The Opposition is engaged in what is called ―negative opposition‖. They just oppose for the sake of opposing. The Jubilee Government has kept the promise. The Government has done what it has promised Kenyans and our country is on the rise. It is very clear. If you go outside Nairobi, you will find many construction works going on. This is a country that is growing. There are positive economic indicators. If you forget ... view