Maina Kamanda

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this is where we need to be very careful. Sometimes it comes from the membership of a particular Committees and not from the Chair. The pressure sometimes comes from the members of a Committee and sometimes it is because of their personal interests in certain matters. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, on the issue of the Chair failing, if that is the case then the Leader of Majority Party and the Leader of Minority Party have failed ten times. Why do I say this? You cannot come here and condemn your Chairmen. You have not taken them for an induction course. Some of these people are new. They are not like us. We do not even need offices. New Committee Chairs need induction but I cannot call for their induction. That is the work of the Leader of Majority Party and the Leader of Minority Party. So, The electronic ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: you cannot come here and watch the Chairs washing their dirty linen in public and yet it is you who have failed. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: You have failed to induct your Chairs. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I have a lot of respect for the Leader of Majority Party since he is my good friend but I am saying some of the Chairs here are new and they need the intervention and the leadership of the Leader of Majority Party and that of the Leader of Minority Party. This is his third stint in Parliament and there is nothing wrong with him inducting his Chairs. That is not micromanaging, it is good leadership and you can offer that. If there are Chairs with offices in the Ministries then it is wrong and we need to ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: So, hon. Speaker, I do not see a problem in this matter. If we can work as brothers and sisters for the interests of this House then it will be good. If another Committee is handling the same matter as mine, I will approach the Committee’s respective Chair and ask him or her if we can work together for the interest of this Parliament. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I came for your guidance. Let me thank you because you were able to guide us on the best way to do our work with my friend, hon. Keynan. I do not think we have an issue any more. We agreed that we could have merged the two Committees to bring one report. So, it is how the Chairmen and financial personal interest--- view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: As Chairs, we should allow even the Cabinet Secretary to work. We are giving them a lot of work summoning them for no apparent reason. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I would ask the hon. Member to give me three weeks. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the procedure is that we have to write to the Ministry. We normally give them seven days to appear before the Committee. We will invite the hon. Member to attend the meeting because that is where the Minister, including the officials from the KPA, will appear. That will allow him to raise any supplementary matter that he may want to raise. So, three weeks is reasonable. view