Lenny Maxwell Kivuti

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The matter before this House--- view
• 10 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, pursuant to Section 11 of the National Gender and Equality Commission Act, 2011, this House approves the Report of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on the Nomination of the Chairperson and Member of the National Gender and Equality Commission laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 8th November, 2011. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I move this Motion after our Committee deliberated on the requirements of the Act aforementioned. I wish to thank the Members of our Committee for their participation. These ... view
• 10 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to have some silence. view
• 10 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the main issue that our Committee was very concerned about was ethnicity which was very clear from the letter from the Head of Civil Service. With regard to candidate number one, Prof, Maria Nzomo, she is a Kikuyu and there are two other Kikuyus already in the same Commission. Therefore, she could not quality to sit in the same Commission due to ethnic balance. The second ranking candidate, Dr. Jane Akinyi Nduasi, was also dropped because she is a Luo. The consideration here was that the recent nominee to the Commission on Administrative Justice, Mr. ... view
• 10 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I have no comment about that. I am only reporting exactly what the candidate told us and I believe that every Kenyan knows who is a Maragoli. Basically, I do not think we have a big argument about this. view
• 10 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Madam Khadi told us that her husband and family come from Bukiri area. Our observation was that if the issue of regional balance was to be used, in the case of Madam Mavisi, we would be throwing away a Luhya in favour of another Luhya due to the fact that one is living in Nairobi and the other one, the parents are living in Nandi. The reason given was that there was another person by the name Serem, who apparently comes from Uasin Gishu, but was understandably said to be coming from Nandi and, therefore, ... view
• 10 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we made several observations, some of them glaring. Some of them could be seen to be factual. We decide we should lay down whatever we discussed, on the Floor of this House so that hon. Members can debate and come up with the way forward because some of it may require this House to make a policy. view
• 10 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Of essence, we had Prof. (Amb.) Maria Nzomo as number one; Dr. Nduasi Jane as number two; Violet Khadi Mavisi as number three; Winfred Lichuma as number four; Thomas Maosa as number five and Mohamed Nur Adhan as number six. Out of this, we did not find it necessary to interview the persons who were not nominated below number four. Our observations were based on the submissions we received and like I said, they can be retrieved verbatim. view
• 10 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we observed that although Prof. Maria Nzomo could be argued to be a Luhya by marriage, she is basically a Kamba by life. view
• 10 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, these are our observations because when a woman gets children but does not live with the husband--- view