20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Members, this is the Committee of the hole House convened to consider the Presidential Memorandum on the Ethics and Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Bill, National Assembly Bill No.33 of 2015. We shall begin.
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20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
The Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, you have an amendment affecting this. This is the point at which we should hear you.
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20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
We will not put the Question. This is a weighty matter. The Speaker has made a determination that the proposed amendments by the Chairman are in tandem with the reservations of the President. Therefore, after debate, the passage will be based on a simple majority threshold. I have a long request list here. This must have been when we were in the Plenary dealing with the sweet-sour issues. I am just trying to find a criterion in which I am able to recognise Members. Can you just press the intervention buttons? Those of you who want to speak to the ...
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20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
I thank you. Yes, the Member for Suba.
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20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
I hear you, the Member for Suba.
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20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
Please, do not raise points of order when you want to debate. We will have time to debate, give information or make justifications. Points of order should be raised when something is out of order. The Member for Suba, I hear you. You are saying that this Commission should be independent. So, one independent Commission should not be subjugated under another independent Commission. But, if you look at the President’s reservation, you will find that it has already imported this thing called “PSC”. Now, that is where the issue is. For you to be able to take away what the ...
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20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
threshold that we require to change the President’s reservation. This is where the issue is. It is in the context that the Departmental Committee has taken care of the President’s reservation, but modified it to create a criterion on how it is done within the reservations of the President. That is what I hear. The Member for Suba, one last bite.
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20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
Point taken. Your point is that you object both the Presidential reservation as much as you object the Departmental Committee’s amendments. Let us go on. Yes, the Member for Githunguri. You should not try to answer back because I had made it clear. Just make new issues out of it.
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20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
All right. Let us move faster on this. The Member for Kitui Central, two minutes are long enough.
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20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
Okay. Yes, the Member for Kipkelion West.
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