Dr. Valerian Kilemi Mwiria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to speak in support of the Speech by the President. I begin by agreeing with him that this Parliament has a rare opportunity to make history by concluding important matters that will, not only unify the country, but will contribute to accelerated growth. The two issues that were particularly important to him related to the Constitution and the fight against corruption. With regard to the Constitution, there is much more hope now than was the case in 2005 when the No-Vote won during the Referendum. If we go ... view
• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue that I wanted to talk about is corruption. Some of the clauses of the new Constitution would greatly contribute to fighting corruption. There are many issues that we are going to discuss when it comes to the Constitution. So, it is particularly important that it passes. In addition to bringing people together, it will contribute to fighting a problem and a disease that has been difficult to eradicate for years. But we cannot see corruption just in terms of senior politicians and other people. In fact, we are living in a country ... view
• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. view
• 9 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support this very important Motion and to congratulate Eng. Gumbo for thinking about this. Often, we think too modern and forget that we have potential that we could exploit in many sectors, partly because of our upbringing. The idea of legislation is clearly important because it is here that we begin to recognize and to expand the possibilities in terms of benefiting from this resource about which much has not been done. view
• 26 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this very important Motion. I want to congratulate Messrs. Ethuro, Koech and others who have spoken in support of the need to have that group appreciated and recognized by Parliament. There is no doubt that Members of Parliament have a very big role to play in unifying this country. After all, it is Members of Parliament who represent other Kenyans in this National Assembly. I would like to point out that as much as we recognise the AMANI Forum and the parliamentary role it will play, we ... view
• 26 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: August 26, 2009 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES view
• 26 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: 2936 about Moi. This is just like when you oppose Kenyatta and the wrongs he did to this country. This is not about Kenyatta and the Kikuyus but about this country. So, this is very important to us. We support Mr. Ethuro, but let him convert Members of Parliament first. view
• 26 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in this regard, I hope that one of his accomplishments will be to get Kenyans to even begin organizing political organizations along ideologies as opposed to ethnic groups. This is because right now, as we have seen, all our problems originate from the fact that we just talk “tribe” even in the way we organise ourselves politically. You can say that the PNU was a predominantly Mt. Kenya mafia. However, you can also say that the ODM was a group of ethnic groups against another major ethnic group. Unless we begin to find ways through the ... view
• 26 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, a lot has been said about sports and how our athletes made us proud, including unifying this country. This is a role that we have not really acknowledged and taken advantage of. How can we translate the unity that we exhibit on televisions into real national unity? We need to ask questions as to whether or not we cannot have national sports where constituencies, provinces and districts congregate and compete as a country and where we nurture talents across the whole country. I remember a Member of Parliament while contributing said; “We thank Rift Valley for ... view
• 26 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Education can also play a big role and I hope the AMANI Forum can take advantage of this. In terms of what has been said many times about preferably having national schools in every constituency and centres of excellence that we are creating so that we recruit and admit students from across the board, more importantly, we should recruit teachers and ensure that like all civil servants they teach in any part of this country. If we add all our 250,000 primary and secondary school teachers represented across the country, it is unlikely that we can even have a repeat ... view