23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I withdraw and apologise to my leader. I have come to discover today that he was a chief accountant of a very huge NGO. I did not have that information. With that kind of information, I apologise to my leader. He can act against me outside the House. To conclude my contribution, the issue of friends of a committee has been an embarrassment to this House. There is a lot of indiscipline in the House. Having served in this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can ...
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23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
House when you were the Speaker in the 11th Parliament, some of us behave well now because of the way we were trained in the last Parliament. When we came here as junior Members, we had decorum and dignity. Now the House looks like people do not follow procedure and traditions. At one time, when I stood up without your permission, you told me: “Can you sit down? I do not know how you arrived here. You think this is Suna market? Sit down!” From that day, I never stood up again without being given permission. That is the kind ...
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23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I wanted to bring to your attention that the Member was not in order to mislead the House. It is very true that the Leader of the Majority Party is higher than the Leader of the Minority Party. That is not in contestation. That is what the Constitution dictates. But there is no Government in this House. The Leader of the Majority Party is the leader of the majority party in the House. The Leader of Minority is the leader of minority party in the House. The Government is outside there in the streets, in Jogoo ...
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23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am speaking on behalf of the minority, not on behalf of Nakuru people. I am totally convinced by the way the Deputy Speaker has put the matter. But we are learning from past mistakes. In a presidential system, if we were to look at it critically, as a House, all of us are members of the legislative arm of government and there is no Executive here. Some of the chairs of committees should have come from the minority side but, the other side taught us lessons that it is winner-take-all. Sometimes their minds are doctored ...
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23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
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23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a House of tradition and procedure and the last time I observed, when the Committee of the whole House is done, I used to see the Speaker being escorted to the Chair. What is happening now is you are behaving like somebody who is hiding.
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22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker.
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22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to add my voice to what the Hon. Member has raised. He has raised very fundamental issues touching on the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. Now that it has been returned for it to appear on Tuesday in the Committee of the whole House, can the Bill be taken back to the Committee? The issues the Hon. Member has raised are of importance. Amending 60 Acts using a Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill is an issue that has to be pronounced as the senior counsel has said in the High Court. This is an issue ...
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22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Deputy Speaker, I stand guided. Those amendments are substantive enough that we should amend the substantive Acts instead of using an omnibus of a miscellaneous Bill.
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22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is a matter I discussed with the Hon. Member before he raised it. He has enough issues when he is given an opportunity to raise the matter to confirm to the House that some of these issues require amendments to the Acts themselves and not through the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill.
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