Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1741 to 1750 of 3022.

• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the limitation of rights and fundamental freedom, Clause 24, the favourable of hon. Nkaisserry. It is on the freedom of association, assembly, demonstrations and labour relations for the Kenya defence forces and national police forces. We raised this because we did not know who the defence forces were and or national police forces. We are informed that it does not cover the prison and Kenya Wildlife Service warders. If we do not correct this document, it will mean that the prison warders can also have their own union. They can go on strike. We ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the issue of the right to life, Clause 26. Who are we listening to? The whole country has been saying it must change. If we say we do not want to change even a comma in this document in this House, what is the leadership doing to the country? We must open up this document and deal with that chapter. Yesterday, a number of us from this House were in a function with doctors and the church. Some of the doctors were very clear that their own hypocritical oath, when they graduate from university ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we were at the Kenya Institute of Administration, before we stopped abruptly, we came up with over 70 clauses that needed corrections. We even informed the Committee to look at those clauses and amend them appropriately. There were many of them. Representation had problems. We had a number of problems. So, we cannot shy away from that. I want to persuade my colleagues that we must rise up to the occasion and actually ensure that we do what we must do in this House. view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to touch on the area of devolution that was sensationalized yesterday. Devolution and, in particular, regional governments have been part of the three tier devolution since the Bomas days. In Bomas, 14 regions were agreed upon after six months of debate. In the Harmonized Draft, they were reduced to nine. They are not creations, as was said yesterday, of any individual ethnic group or region to suppress others. We must be very honest because whatever we say in this House goes down to the grassroots and we distort information. Some hon. Members mentioned that ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to interrogate this document in an honest way. I want to say that I support devolution, like the hon. Member who has spoken before me. It will be cowardly for us not to devolve and, yet, one of the key issues that we told the country when we were coming up with the Constitution was that we want real power and resource devolution. In the current situation in the proposal that we have, we have gone from the national stage to the counties. If you look at the duties that have been given to ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very important that we actually look at things in a very sober manner. If there is a problem; and I even want to touch it in the context of abortion--- If there is a problem that requires abortion and we are being told that we need to deal with it because of rape, let us deal with rape itself! Let us arrest the rapist! Let us kill the rapist instead of killing the innocent product of such a situation! If we do not start dealing with the issues and we want to go around ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do support this Proposed Constitution, but amendments must be done. We have a lot of issues that need to be dealt with; we have a lot of work that needs to be done – whatever we call the devolved system between the national and the county, I have no problem. But it must serve the purpose that the Harmonized Draft gave us; which was, if I may quote: “To co-ordinate the implementation within the counties forming the region; to co-ordinate the programmes, the projects and to supervise the same across counties”. That is because ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you as I wind up. I want to persuade hon. Members that we need to deal with these issues now. I beg to support. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: That this House adopts the Report of the proceedings of the ACP Committees and the ACPEU Joint Committee meeting held in Brussels between September 27th to October 2, 2009 and the Report of the 18th Session of the ACPEU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and related meetings held between November 24th and December 3rd, 2009 in Luanda, Angola laid on the Table today, Wednesday 24th, March, 2010. view