James Kembi Gitura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Nov 2016 in Senate: Order, Senators! There appears to be nobody to move Order No.27 which was the only business left for the House to deal with. Therefore, there being no other business, the Senate stands adjourned until Tuesday, 29th November, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. The Senate rose at 4.30 p.m. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate view
• 23 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, first of all, thank you for giving this debate ample time for the Senators to express themselves. It is a very serious issue. I had the privilege of sitting in the committee that was negotiating the rules and regulations. I am a bit saddened that Sen. Murungi is not here because I know the amount of work and time he has put into this issue with a view to bringing it to fruition. The last meeting we had with the Members of the National Assembly, they agreed with us that all the regulations were in order after ... view
• 23 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is very useful information. That is the point; these billboards and those waiver things all bear the picture of the governor and contain campaign slogans within them. These are the issues that even the committee that investigated the impeachment of the Governor of Murang’a County made clear. They said that no governor has the right to put his image or campaign slogan on any billboard or other material that uses public financing. It is going on with impunity. The reason why these things are happening is because the Senate has been rendered so impotent that we ... view
• 23 Nov 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. You have ordered that the Petition, through Sen. Wangari, be brought to the House in 60 days. That is exactly what you have ruled in more than a 100 petitions that are still pending one or two years later. The people who make these petitions, like the flowers pickers in Naivasha, must have a good reason why they seek the intervention of the Senate to deal with their case. They believe and trust that we will come up with a solution for them. It is, therefore, frustrating when it takes two years ... view
• 15 Nov 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am very curious to know how the Chairman of the Committee on Education has the Statement yet the Clerk’s Office does not have it. I thought that statements are given to the Office of the Speaker and then to the Chairs to issue them because it puts everybody in an awkward position when statements go to Chairs directly and nobody else knows about them. If that is the case, then, it ceases to be the property of the House and the Speaker’s Office does not know. I think that is an ... view
• 3 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the response given by the Chairman of the Committee--- view
• 3 Nov 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I request you to accept my apology. On the answer given by the Chairman of the Committee, I am personally interested in the question of integrated Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). It appears that they were not considered in this statement although we have raised that issue many times. Is the Chairman satisfied that the integrated IDPs who have been recorded at every County Commissioners’ office – at least in Murang’a we have the record – have been settled financially or that arrangements have been made for them to go back to secured land which they used to ... view
• 3 Nov 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am getting concerned about the Chairmen of Committees having to hustle by going to the offices of Cabinet Secretaries to follow up or to push them to do what they should be doing. Every day we listen about this issue, it is about chairmen saying how they have hustled so much and how many trips they have made to the offices. This cannot be allowed to go on because chairmen of committees are supposed to transmit the requests and get answers in good time without them being reduced to messengers. It ... view
• 3 Nov 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. With great respect to Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o, I do not think that that statement should be left to just go and be recorded in the HANSARD for posterity. It is a very serious statement. Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o is also a very senior legislator. That statement is an extremely dangerous because he said that everybody knows that the most important circular in the Jubilee Government is the one that he has referred to. Unless he tables it because he has been a Cabinet Minister himself and he has referred to a document that ... view
• 3 Nov 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view