Ken Obura Mirenga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 171 to 180 of 205.

• 29 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker, Sir. While I obviously support this report, I want to ask for the indulgence and guidance from the Chair on one of the recommendations of this Committee; on the Judicial Service Commission, Recommendation No.16, page 98 of this Report. view
• 29 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Considering the independence of the Judiciary, Chapter 10, Article 160 of the Constitution says: view
• 29 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: “In the exercise of judicial authority, the Judiciary as constituted by Article 161, shall be subject only to this Constitution and the law and shall not be subject to the control or direction of any person or authority.” view
• 29 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: While we are annoyed and, in fact, we want to direct that this recommendation be implemented, how do we deal with this recommendation No. 16 where Parliament will be seen to be giving direction to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to investigate its former and serving members of staff to take action for the alleged corruption and abuse of office? Thank you. view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to state here that I support in totality the work and report of this Committee. As a young man, it will be important to note that I will not sit in a House--- I want to commend the Chairperson and Members of this Committee for giving us such a wonderful job. I want to ask all of us in other Committees to try and do our best and give the House this kind of work. As I was saying earlier, if you look at this report, the youngest nominee here was born ... view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are sets of what I would call coincidences that have come out of this report. Firstly, an earlier interviewer was later on interviewee and he became number one. Secondly, a name of a person who was not on the original list was sneaked onto the list that was eventually forwarded to Parliament, and he is now being debated. Somebody has been nominated more than twice. In both instances, his name came to Parliament and was rejected. It is also important to ask the Executive to drop this gentleman, whose name keeps on appearing on these ... view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to agree with him having read the mood of the House--- view
• 16 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I had wanted to inform hon. Baiya that we know--- view
• 16 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I had requested earlier that I inform him. view
• 11 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, while I agree with my brother, hon. Junet and also with the Leader of Majority Party that we need to play our oversight role to ensure that all the money that is devolved to the counties is properly accounted for, I disagree with the Leader of Majority Party when he talks from the Floor of this House with the Members of the county assembly telling them that they are stooges of the governors. They are not all that, when here in the National Assembly, which he says is equivalent to the MCAs down there, the Members of ... view