Josephat Nanok

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 551 to 560 of 756.

• 1 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, pursuant to the provisions of section 33 (4) of the Constitution of Kenya Review Act, 2008, this House approves the Draft Constitution submitted by the Committee of Experts and laid on the table of the House on Tuesday 2nd March, 2010 subject to amendment of clause (2) of Article 45 by deleting the words “a person” appearing immediately after the word “marry” and substituting therefor the words “an adult”. In moving this amendment, I realize that, as is indicated in the Draft Constitution, this will legalize child marriage. It will be a ... view
• 31 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while we debate an amendment to an amended Article brought to this House by a Member who is not only a Member of this House but also a Member of the Committee of Experts (CoE), we should note that it is creating more controversies. This matter has been very controversial outside. We know one of our biggest constituencies view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for “seeing” me so that I can make my contributions to this great debate. Basically, what we have in front of us is a document, the Draft Constitution; a matter that has been in the public domain for the last 20 years, and which we have not been able to agree on previously. In 2005, after coming up with the Kilifi Draft, it went to the referendum and could not marshal the required numbers for it to be approved. Then, we were back to the drawing board. So, as Kenyans and as this ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: My understanding of this section implies that it is legalizing child marriages. We cannot allow that anomaly to be in our Constitution! If we have the opportunity of correcting it so that child marriages are not legalized in our Constitution; so that adults can only marry other adults of the opposite sex, I think we will have done much better. We will have done something more useful to more than 60 per cent of the youth and children of this country. view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to draw your attention to Chapter 5 on Land and Environment. It is elaborately put. However, you will notice that Article 71 on agreement on natural resources is scantily drafted. I am saying this because I draw examples from what has happened in the Niger Delta States of Nigeria. There are conflicts revolving around natural resources there. Communities from the areas where some of the natural resources are exploited do not even get a single penny. In this country, we are exploring oil and other minerals. We do not want these resources ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I would also like to draw your attention to Chapter 7 on Representation of the People, particularly on Article 89(1) which increases the number of constituencies from 210 to 290. This initiative of adding 80 constituencies to those that we already have is a very good one. The gerrymandering that happened during the creation of constituencies in this country denied many people the opportunity to be represented. I can tell you for a fact that the greater Turkana where I come from is greatly under represented. You cannot imagine, an area of 77,000 square kilometers with 1.3 million people inhabiting ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I would also like to draw your attention to Chapter 9 on the Executive. Personally, I would have liked this country to have a Parliamentary System of Government because it has been tested in many countries in the world. We eventually gave in and said that we go for a pure Presidential System because that is what has put us together. However, we must realise that in the 46 years we have had one centre of power, that has been our problem. Since we are now saying that we continue with this one centre of power, we have to strengthen ... view
• 23 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I respond to this Question, let me say that last week on Tuesday you had issued a directive that we will not transact business here because there was no Minister from this Ministry. I want to explain by giving two reasons. view
• 23 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: One, I had expected my colleague, the Cabinet Minister to be here to respond to this Question but unfortunately, he was not able to make it. Secondly, when I made efforts to get sufficient information to answer this Question and the supplementary questions that would have arisen, that directive was ignored by the senior technocrats in the Ministry. Following several directives, I have got the information I need to respond to this Question. I can only plead with you to allow us to proceed since in the past we have not failed to represent the Ministry and to respond to ... view
• 23 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are trying to address that through the respective offices to try and sort this so that it does not happen again. view