Tom Joseph Kajwang'

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• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: This is a Bill concerning Nairobi metropolitan area. I feel, with a lot of passion, that I should discuss this Bill because if we leave it for the honourable members who respectfully represent the rural constituencies, we may find ourselves in a situation where they import the very good ideas from the rural into the metropolitan. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Just to conclude the bit of constitutionality as you are thinking about other issues raised by Hon. Oluoch, I was thinking about this Bill that only concerns Nairobi. I was wondering if we have a Bill or a piece of legislation which does not seem to have a national effect, how the Bill sits with our programme of legislation. I know we can have a stand-alone Bill which can discuss a specific matter, but the policy we have adopted in this House is to have Bills which have national legislation. I say so because it is a good idea to ... view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: And Garissa which is aspiring to be a metropolitan soon. If the Ministry is concerned about the policy which I have had the advantage of reading, then a legislation should have come which seem to refer to all the metropolises not just a specific part of the country. If you want to see how ridiculous this Bill is, consider Clause 8 in which the Bill proposes a council and it has in mind something which sits a little above the board where there re are Cabinet Secretaries for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, and the National Treasury, and governors. ... view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I know Hon. Ichung’wah has a big problem because one foot is in town but all his uncles and aunties are in the peripheries. Look at Clause 8. I want Members to consider Clause 8, for example. If you are going to have a council such as this, and you have these governors as Members of this council, where is the place for the National Assembly? The 17 of us are the arm by which this City breaths. The 17 of us are the people who make things work in this City. Even if you are talking about Kiambu, Murang’a ... view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Member for Kikuyu forgets that I am government. I am serikali, Hon. Speaker. view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: The Member for Kikuyu has corrected himself. Before, he said that I was a fake Chief Justice, but when he sat down he said that I am his very good friend, “the Hon. Chief Justice”. I The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: withdraw the sentiments that I could be the Chief Justice but, I may be, in the very near future; in the people’s Government that is coming very soon. view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am raising a very serious issue here. The issue I am raising for the National Assembly is: Where is the nexus? Where is the adjunct between leaders of the county view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: members or leaders of the national Government? We sit here as leaders of the national Government. So, how does my learned senior get involved as a Member in Murang’a County? How does he interface with the management of this Authority? How does he do that? If it is considered that it is Governors who should sit as a council, where is the corresponding thinking on how the national Government would be served in this council? I would have thought - I know we are going to propose amendments - which the Bill would have sat under Clause 8, “two others ... view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Nairobi has 17 Members. In fact, last week as we were talking with the Cabinet Secretary concerned, we had not even seen the Bill. We had to interact with him. We were wondering how he did public participation. Do you know how he went around it? He said: “This animal called public participation is unruly.” I am sure he must have sat down with my very good friends in the business community in Nairobi. I am sure he must have consulted a few people from the Dagoretti Slaughter House to enrich the Bill. How I wish Members of Parliament of ... view