Musalia Mudavadi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: The President and Prime Minister take pride in our respect of the principle of fairness and tolerance and that must continue. The Government will also ensure that voting for the referendum will be free, fair and peaceful. At least two police officers will be assigned per polling stream in all polling stations. Additional security officers will be availed to ensure that all environments of the polling stations are safe and free of trouble makers. Adequate security will be provided to constituency and regional election co- ordinators as well as other officials, including clerks. All Kenyans of voting age know how ... view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, IIEC is taking all preparations necessary for this historic poll. The fresh voter registration has been successfully completed. This has resulted into the registration of over 12 million voters against the anticipated 10 million voters. Draft voters registers have been printed and sent to various polling stations for the public to inspect and verify. Internal inspection and verification of the draft voters register is being done to eliminate double registration, typographical and other errors. Electronic transfer of results system has also been developed and was piloted in South Mugirango Constituency. The system will further be piloted in ... view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Lastly, referendum regulations have been developed and gazetted and IIEC is preparing to register the referendum committees. A code of conduct has also been developed and officials participating in the exercise will have to be sworn in and abide by the electoral conduct. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, let me reiterate once again, the absolute resolve of His Excellency the President and the Prime Minister to ensure that the referendum campaign is decent, free and fair. I urge all political leaders in both Yes and No camps to encourage objective and reasoned debates and to refrain from statements that stir emotions. I appeal to all Kenyans to actively engage in civil, decent and peaceful campaigning. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. There are a number of issues which have been raised. I will respond to them not in any order because I was taking notes in a hurry to try and capture the many speakers. The first thing that I want to deal with is the issue on whether the enactment of a new Constitution would entail the collapse of the current Coalition Government. I wish to state here that, that is not true at all. If one looks at the transitional arrangements within the proposed Draft Constitution, he or she will find that there are ... view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will just remind the hon. Member that we are seeking a new Constitution because we want to have better rules and legislation for our country. So, I stand by my words. I also want to tackle the issue raised by the Member for Mosop because he said that clips of speeches should be made available. Actually, this can be extracted. Our media houses today have very good equipment and if one wants to extract or get a speech that was given by any individual, it will not be difficult to access that. What is important is ... view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: We expect the speeches to be civil and decent. This issue was raised by the Member of Parliament for Kandara. This can be done if we, as Members, project leadership qualities and come out forcefully to show that we are not about playing games with Kenyans, but we are serious in conveying what the contents of that Constitution are. If we are able to live up to that and be disciplined in the conveyance of our messages, I believe that the content of the speeches can be realistic and fair and we can avoid hate speech and falsehoods. view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of meetings, including church meetings and so forth, what happened in Uhuru, if I can recollect very well and based on the information that I have, the police were notified by the church leaders that it would be a crusade. In fact, the church leaders are the ones who went and gave that notification to be allowed to participate at Uhuru Park. They did not at any one time indicate to the police that the crusade at Uhuru Park was going to be turned into a No political campaign. So, the Government ... view
• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to state that to the best of my knowledge, the official campaign period has really started because it was supposed to be a one-month period to the date of the referendum. Today is 7th July, 2010, and so clearly we are in the campaign period. What has been happening earlier has been civic education by both the No camp and also the Yes camp. So, the process of civic education is now complete and now you can engage in hard politics and campaigning for the referendum. view