12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to support that amendment and support my Chairman. Ordinarily, the person in charge of the country is the President. If anything goes wrong, all fingers point at him. It does not matter whether it is bad water, insecurity or other things. If you look at the early amendments, you will realise that they were not giving prominence to the role of the President. That is why we had to bring this amendment. It is very clear now that if people blame the President, indeed, he has the instruments to implement whatever will benefit Kenyans. ...
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12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am a Member of the Committee and I want to support the amendment from my Chair. We had a long discussion as a Committee. We took almost half a day to resolve this matter. The principal amendment says that KFS, KWS and NYS shall be auxiliary forces, but that is not even enough. Sub-clause (3) says that all those auxiliary forces shall be under the KDF. It is like changing every force in this country to be KDF. There is a great fear. One of our discussion points is that this requires a lot of ...
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12 Oct 2016 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman for giving me this opportunity once more. As a Member of the Committee, I support the amendment, but I want to make a clarification because this is in public domain. Somebody gave wrong information by insinuating that we have obsolete machinery in KDF. Such information will bring panic in this country. I want to confirm, as a Member of the Committee, that we have proper equipment and our security is intact courtesy of the KDF. It is Hon. Lentoimaga who said that and yet he is the Vice-Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration ...
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9 Jun 2016 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to speak. First, I support the amendment because realistically, to start a university in a pastoralist area will be historic. I was surprised when I saw the Mover is Hon. Jacob Macharia. The name does not look like the place because I come from there. I was wondering what is going on.
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9 Jun 2016 in National Assembly:
However, should we do that, I am proposing to the Department of Education and also the Departmental Committee of Energy, Communication and Information that the university should focus on petroleum studies and mining when it begins. The region where this university is going to be established has potential in terms of mining. The students will even go to Pokot, which is very rich in minerals, but the university should focus on mining, petroleum and even geothermal. It will be more useful if we go like that. Finally, I am urging the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and ...
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29 Mar 2016 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I support. The reason why I support is that, earlier, there were neither governors nor county representation. We cannot do anything without the county governments because health is a completely devolved function. I thank the Committee Chair for bringing the counties into the amendment.
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16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Just as the Committee Chair has said, this is just a clean-up. I want to put a rider as I support. There has been confusion between the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development in terms of survey. Sometimes, KFS takes that responsibility and conducts surveys The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly:
of its own and thus, usurps the role of the Survey of Kenya. I like this amendment and I thank the Chair of the Committee. Now it is very clear who does the survey. The survey is domiciled in the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development, under the Survey of Kenya and not in KFS. Now they know that their services are here. There has been a lot of confusion in my constituency but now, it has been made very clear this afternoon. I support.
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2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have not folded the sleeves of my coat to fight my brother. That is not correct. However, the Member wanted to cast aspersions on the Members who went to the ASP. As the sponsor of the petition, it was signed by 190 Members. It was theirs. So, why would one want to cast aspersion on Members who want to rescue this country, including his Chairman, who signed the petition?
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