Tom Joseph Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: When you talked about those things out there, we did not even know what you were talking about. We waited for you to bring up the matter before us. Since you have brought it before us in the form of a Bill, we will deal with it as the National Assembly. We have a voice to deal with this matter, and how we deal with it is what we have charged the Committee to let us know. So, you cannot come here and talk about being ceremonial. You cannot speak politics when we are speaking parliamentary language here. view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Well, if you feel that you are ceremonial, then you leave your duty under Articles 34 and 35 and go and do those un-ceremonial things out there. Here, we are serious Members of the National Assembly. We have come here to prosecute issues, and there are a lot of issues that we are dealing with. There is this animal called “public participation.” We have now understood what this animal is all about. We are trying to tame it so that we can use it within our understanding and get it done. They have done a good job with public participation. ... view
• 11 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Leader of the Majority Party is giving us critical information. However, he is touching on very important issues, which are very sensitive to this House, such that rising in his place to give us that information does not help much. That is the kind of information that we want in a written report, so that the Cabinet Secretary can be held accountable. If that information is not acted upon as the Leader of the Majority Party is saying, we have recourse as a House to hold him responsible through an implementation procedure. Rising to respond to what ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, allow me to support you in the manner in which you have proceeded on this point of order raised by Hon. Otiende. It is clear that Hon. Otiende has a constitutional point in the sense that these legislations seem to be giving Parliament jurisdictions to interfere with an alienable property which is private. That is unconstitutional because what is private property may not be interfered with unless provisions of the Constitution have been applied. In the benefit of the spirit that the promoter has spoken, we do not need to kill it at this stage. This is ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: where Members want to improve it, they should do it by way of Committee amendments rather than to guillotine it for its unconstitutionality. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Before Hon. Baya leaves the Chamber, I think he owes the House an apology because a Member must be taken for his word. If Hon. Baya spoke at some point, the drama that we have seen between the Member and the Speaker should not be there at all. In terms of the tradition of this House, a Member never argues with the Speaker. The Speaker is ever right until you prove yourself otherwise. In fact, it is Hon. Baya’s responsibility to look for the Hansard and prove that he did not speak. That is the tradition of the Commonwealth jurisdiction ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. King’ara, we support you. My only parting shot is: Please look for legal advice from the Directorate of Legal Affairs to clean-up the texts of your legislation. For example, you are talking about a person or land buying companies giving out land. Do you not think about the cooperatives, the trusts, the estates, and such other entities which are not necessarily in law, persons, and not necessarily land buying companies, but who would then give us a surrender? Two, think about cleaning up the text on this thing you are calling ‘allocated land’. There could be land which is ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is the time that we also need some break. I have heard the Member for Suba North, a lady that I respect and a lady who gives me a lot of encouragement for her sheer vigilance, mentioning the word “fight.” You know how that word caused problems to the United States over the impeachment trial of President Trump. The word ‘fight’ was looked at and pieced. Could Hon. Millie find another way of employing another word so that gender issues are not understood to be all the time fighting? The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is the time that we also need some break. I have heard the Member for Suba North, a lady that I respect and a lady who gives me a lot of encouragement for her sheer vigilance, mentioning the word “fight.” You know how that word caused problems to the United States over the impeachment trial of President Trump. The word ‘fight’ was looked at and pieced. Could Hon. Millie find another way of employing another word so that gender issues are not understood to be all the time fighting? The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I did not know that I was to be next. Allow me to first start with what I think is procedural. I have listened to my Chair and a ranking Member, Hon. Jeremiah Kioni and I sympathise with his circumstance. I am in his Committee, I join him in every word, but I cannot explain it more eloquently manner than he has done already. However, we need to deal with a bigger issue. We now need a referendum law. Even though we are now discussing the law emanating from the JLAC and there is ... view