Tom Joseph Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5241 to 5250 of 10308.

• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Well, you know these are the learning grounds also. Hon. Member for Kibra you ran into two problems. If there was no amendment suggested on Clause 46, it can only mean that you would have prosecuted it were you to prefer that amendment yourself, as an hon. Member and it would have been a written proposal which is signed by the Speaker and which is on the Order Paper. It is a learning experience for all of us and so I do not hold it on you but those are the Standing Orders. view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: He has nothing to say because he is not proffering anything on Clause 46. He would be speaking as an hon. Member for Ainabkoi and not as the Chairman of the Departmental Committee. Two, you realise that we have stepped on to Clause 2 meaning that we have passed there. But that is minor, I would have bent on it and I would have listened to you but because you do not have a written amendment--- If you want that order hon. Member for Kibra, I will read the relevant Standing Order which shows that every amendment must be in ... view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: In exceptional circumstances, Floor amendments will still be in writing. Which is this exceptional circumstance? view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: You mean Standing Order No.55 (2) which says:- “Despite paragraph (1), the Speaker may, in exceptional circumstances, allow a Member to move an amendment to a Motion before the Assembly at any time during consideration of that Motion.” view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: That is all right but then you would have to canvass those exceptional circumstances. So, can we hear you on the exceptional circumstances? view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I will have Nominated Member Johnson Sakaja. Do not arrogate yourself the power to know which hon. Member will speak to what. view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, the Chair is very sympathetic to whatever amendments you want to bring before the House but the Chair is tied to your Standing Orders to keep fidelity to them. They are not procedural technicalities, they are substance. I want you to look at Standing Order 133(2) which says:- “(2) No amendment shall be moved to any part of a Bill by any Member, other than the Member in charge of the Bill, unless written notification of the amendment shall have been given to the Clerk twenty- four hours before the commencement of the sitting at which that part ... view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I will not allow it. You cannot seem to make a suggestion that demeans the Standing Order. view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Order, hon. Member for Seme! The phrase that “Despite Standing Order or what” implies that Standing Order is not substantial. Give him the microphone to withdraw. Would you please press the intervention button? view
• 19 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Somebody once said that the law is an ass. That is a tragedy of how law-making is all about. I feel you but you have skipped the gun. view