Jude L. Kangethe Njomo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I will be very brief because I do not want to belabour points that have already been made. I know they have sufficient information. In making your decision, I would like to consider that this House has always treated the courts as independent institutions. In every petition that comes to this House, we always quote that “these matters are not before any court of law”. We invoke Standing Order No.89. We never interfere with what happens in court. Why are the courts not reciprocating this and also treating us as an independent institution? The Election Laws ... view
• 9 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill for one simple reason that it is improving the capacity of the middle and the low income person to access loans from financial institutions. As you are aware, after the passing of the Banking (Amendment) Act, banks have sworn to frustrate the law by making it very hard for the low and middle income people to access credit. This Bill comes in handy to provide more collateral and more space for the middle and the low income earners to access credit. You realise that when we pass this ... view
• 9 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: I remember when we were discussing the Banking (Amendment) Bill, I drew a picture of how a moving economy should look like. I drew an anatomy of an animal which has a small head, a big body and a small tail. If the head represents the high income earners, the body represents the middle income earners and the tail represents the low income earners. You will find that our economy is such that it has a very small head, a relatively small body and a very big tail. Our economy will never move with that kind of an anatomy. When ... view
• 9 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Maybe Hon. Ichung’wah should let me talk and he listens. view
• 9 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the same IMF during the Nyayo era was agitating and pushing so strongly to the Government of Kenya to close the National Bank of Kenya (NBK), which was the only surviving locally-owned bank. At the same time, all the international banks in the country were closing local branches. The branches upcountry were being closed. People could not access banking facilities. I thank the Nyayo Government because they never closed the NBK. It is on this front that other banks have come up and have filled the gap that was left open by the branches that were ... view
• 9 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, cognizant of the provisions of Article 38(3) of the Constitution regarding political rights of the citizens, aware that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is currently conducting countrywide mass voter registration; further aware that this activity forms an integral component of democracy and specifically the exercise of universal suffrage; appreciating the fact that as elected national leaders, Members of Parliament are key stakeholders in the process; concerned that unlike in the previous dispensation where the Executive, as part of the House, would regularly apprise the House on progress ... view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: consequences of the choices that they had made. Bad leaders are elected by good citizens who refuse to vote. I want to ask Kenyans to register as voters so that they can participate in elections. This is because what happened in America may happen here. 26 million Kenyans hold IDs and they are eligible voters who are above 18 years but there are only 14 million registered voters meaning that over 12 million people have not registered as voters. These people will still seek services from the Government and complain when they feel that elected leaders are not carrying out ... view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is targeting to register about 9 million Kenyans in this second phase of mass voter registration. In the first week, the IEBC’s target was to register 1.4 million Kenyans but only managed to register 800, 000. This is a very low figure. So much effort has been put to encourage Kenyans to register; mass media, civic education and preachers are now preaching to their believers to register as voters and exercise their democratic rights but we still have very low turn outs in voter registration. It is important that we come up with ... view