Tom Joseph Kajwang'

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• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: be a dangerous precedent. We can defeat this Motion on the Floor of this House. We have the vote. We can decide that there is no merit in this Motion and we throw the baby with the water, so to speak. We may decide to amend it or keep it the way it is. But, to ask you to make that decision is putting you on tenterhooks with Members. This is a Petition that has been well designed and looked at by various Committees and you are being asked to take the opportunity to make a decision that kills what ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: (Off record) view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: I will take five minutes. He knows how brief I can get when I put my mind to it. I would have saved the House so that every Member has something to say about pension. view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Immediately you finish your elections, you are a former Member. This is what everybody must know. The moment you are voted in, you must consider yourself a former Member of Parliament. So, if you are in this House and you think there is a problem, or there is some element of guilt within you that makes you unable to say that we should have pension, you are in the wrong forum. We are in the business of politics. In the business of politics, some people win while others lose. The probability of losing is actually 90 per cent for everybody, ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: My father is a retired teacher. He has many problems with me because I joined politics – that I left a thriving legal practice for politics. Why? It is because he has looked around and has hardly seen any evidence of any person who left Parliament and had anything for himself, including people in my home town who were Cabinet Ministers. I had a Minister for Health, who perished. The other day he was burying his spouse in deplorable conditions. I have had former Members who are now deceased. Hon. Okuku Ndiege and Hon. Tom Mboya are people who have ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: The only thing I have found confounding in this discussion is why people should mix gratuity and pension. Those are different things. I am waiting to hear from Hon. Mwadime even as I have heard from other colleagues. At least, from my background understanding of law, gratuity is out of a contractual while pension is a social service. Those two things are different. If you have an employment and at the end you get a gratuity of so-much per cent, or that you will get this or that, that is your term of service. On the other hand, you get ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: consider foregoing pension. I do not see where that confusion is. In fact, it is that confusion that has faced the PSC. People who were first term Members in previous Parliaments have been lining up here looking for their gratuity. I see no reason why they should not be paid. view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: You hear the PSC saying that they are waiting for a word from the Salaries and Remunerations Commission (SRC). Why should they wait for a word from the SRC? This is gratuity. It is in contract-based. It is known that once I have served even one term, I get my gratuity and go home. Even today, I am entitled to it except, of course, when I get another term that gratuity is commuted because it will be calculated for two terms rather than one term. On pension, I save for it and the Government also saves for me. I do ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support this Bill. view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Hon. Ndindi Nyoro and I are former members of PIC. Of course, you know that Hon. Ndindi Nyoro is a backbencher. Now I have been given the task to join PIC to see if we can add value to it. I just want to make two points. One, I want to appreciate the Chair and the Committee for being very hard against people who have been cited for corruption and people who have not done what they are supposed to do in various sectors. These gentlemen are from the Minority side of the House, but there ... view