Joseph Wathigo Manje

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: I oppose. view
• 5 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this Bill. I support this amendment Bill, the National Hospital Insurance Fund (Amendment) Bill, 2021, because it anchors the health sector properly and it gives the legal structure for the National Hospital Insurance Fund card to function properly on the ground. From Independence, our founding fathers were talking of providing health and making sure that we reduced poverty and illiteracy. We have been fighting for these three issues all along. To some extent, we have succeeded on illiteracy because our education system is functional and we ... view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, when it comes to serious cohabitation, it should be given enough time. Three years is just a short time for a serious cohabitation. To avoid games being played on the ground, it is better we retain seven or forget about this clause. view
• 10 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. My Question is to the Cabinet Secretary ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs: (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the status of implementation of the Kenya National Addressing System under the Communications Authority which involves physical and electronic naming and numbering of buildings and streets? (ii) What urgent measures are the Ministry taking to ensure that institutionalisation of the National Addressing System is expedited? Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to support this amendment. At the outset, I support this Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020. It brings us to what we are supposed to be doing as Kenyans. We should ensure that Kenyans live together. The introduction of the Article on those in our Constitution is reminding us what we are supposed to be doing as a country in order to live together. I feel that, as Kenyans, we should share our resources equitably. We should feel Kenyan just like our forefathers sat together and created a country ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: Clause 11(a) is very appropriate on the economy and shared prosperity. It tries to ensure that the economy of this country is properly anchored and what is realised is properly distributed. I want to comment on the amendment to Article 89 of the Constitution where the number of constituencies will be added from 290 to 360. I support this because of three or four issues. There will be equitable representation of Kenyans in various areas. I think the formula used and explained in the House, the drafters took the population of the country which is 47.6 million and divided by ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: This is a very scientific way which will solve the problem of getting constituencies along political ideas the way we have been doing in this country. Also, it will enable us to equitably distribute resources, for example, through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund and the Ward Development Fund if representation is okay. I differ on this because we do not know why we do census in this country when it comes to movement of constituencies. I tend to think that one of the objectives of census like the one we did in 2019 is to assess the spatial distribution ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: which is our electoral numbers. In other words, if people move from Nairobi to Kitengela, Kajiado earns one constituency and Nairobi loses one constituency and that way, we will have a fixed number of MPs in this Parliament, just the way our brothers in the United States of America (USA) do. Always, there are some States which lose seats, for example, in their last year census, I think States like Texas, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Caroline gained one constituency while States like Illinois, California and Michigan lost one seat each because of population migration. We believe there will always be ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: I vote yes. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this Report on BPS. They have really done a good job although, there are a lot of assumptions on how this Report has projected the expenditure for FY 2021/2022. For example, the growth will be 7.4 per cent, not knowing that we are just coming out of the COVID-19 situation and the businesspersons need to be settled so that at least they can continue… view