Musalia Mudavadi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 181 to 190 of 955.

• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I am just looking at it this way; the size of the county assemblies perhaps the largest maybe Nairobi, Kakamega or Kiambu. You will find that based on the number of wards or county assembly members, two-thirds is going to be a very small number. These are smaller entities and I would therefore really plead that we leave it as it is so that it brings some measure of stability. Some county assemblies will have 30 members others 40 members and others twenty something members. If you look at it in that context let us ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to support. It was, in fact, highlighted by hon. Ngugi during our deliberations. We need to provide for this. So, I want to support the Committee. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I just want some clarification from the Chairman on this. Is he not giving any time limit? The whole idea was that within a certain time frame, the Speaker must forward, but here you are leaving it blank, I do not know whether that is what you intend to achieve. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, in the Bill it is already there. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I have no objection if it becomes consistent with the Election Act as provided for the Members of Parliament. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I just want to draw the attention of the House to Clause 36(2) of the Bill which deals with the appointment. Section 36(2) says that the county assembly shall not approve nominations for appointment to the executive committee if they do not take into account the following--- Which by implication - and I think there was a specific clause which I am trying to trace – which makes it clear that the governor cannot appoint the executive committee members without the approval of the assembly. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I may want to ask the House to reflect a little bit on this because it says that the governor may dismiss a county executive committee member in accordance with Section 41. Now under Section 41, there is a description of why and so forth. In my view, we should make laws that become better. Leaving it as it is today for the President does not necessarily mean that it is the right law. In my view, if we were to look at it in terms of even the Constitution today and the need to ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I think, maybe, for the comfort of the House, let me put it that this particular proposal was even put before the Commission on Implementation of the Constitution (CIC). There was nothing wrong with this particular provision, because we have to make sure that the Governors are also stable. They have been brought in by their people and you cannot now have a situation where they can be thrown or tossed all over easily. So, I think that these provisions are in order. The two- thirds adjustment does not in any way infringe on the ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I want to remind hon. Mungatana that the 75 per cent was for the removal of the Speaker by the Assembly members because his case ends there. It ends with the 75 per cent of the County Assembly Members. However, the Governor is looked at differently in the sense that he is popularly elected. So, a Motion must be brought first. Subsequently, we are giving the Governor similar status to that of the President, who would have to go through impeachment. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government, do you want to be informed? view