Mutahi Kagwe

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• 12 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think this is a subject that should be of great interest and concern to all Kenyans as a whole. This is because a society that creates equity amongst the citizenry essentially becomes stable. The more unequal a society is, the more socially and politically unstable it remains. Indeed, if you look at places where revolutions have been forced by societies, one of the ingredients of those revolutions is inequity in societies. One of the ways of ensuring that our society moves equality to the greatest extent possible is by ensuring that ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also rise to salute the delegations from Morocco and Tanzania, particularly to welcome with special feelings those from the neighbourhood, that is Tanzania. I would like to tell them to do whatever they can do to use their influence in Parliament and in their country to fast-track the East African Community (EAC). They can use their influence in their country to overcome the few hurdles that are an impediment to the realization of the EAC. We want to see Kenyans, Tanzanians, Rwandese and Burundians moving freely. We want Tanzanians to move freely in Kenya or Rwanda ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also join my colleagues in thanking you and, indeed, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. This morning, we were discussing in the Finance, Commerce and Budget Committee about the petition in Kisumu. It then transpired that it will be very difficult to proceed with the petition on the aspect of finance. This is basically due to lack of audited accounts. There is also the issue of how long it will take. As I speak, we are still waiting for the Auditor-General to give us the Audit Report for Narok County following the petition that was brought here. ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. We are faced with two different issues here; one of them has to do with what Sen. Wetangula raised and that is whether the Committee was exercising its adventures and other uncalled for activities when they visited Eldoret. That is incorrect because there was a ruling which was made here by the Speaker when that same matter arose; the HANSARD will correct me on this one. The ruling was that the Speaker or anybody else cannot direct how a Committee is supposed to come to whatever results, what action they need to take and ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in Senate: There is nothing wrong that can be passed by so many hon. Members; and so many hon. Members travelling to Eldoret cannot possibly be wrong; hon. Members are never wrong and they cannot be engaged in misadventures. The second point, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, has to do with this particular document that is with us here in the House. I would agree with those saying that since this document is not signed by the Cabinet Secretary (CS) concerned, I am aware that at The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the urgency as it has been well expressed by Sen. Orengo and Sen. Wetangula. However, it is also important for us to appreciate the practicalities of some of these things. As a Chairman of a Committee, I can tell you that it may be difficult to get a statement that is signed by a Cabinet Secretary. It is difficult to say that you will walk into a Cabinet Secretary’s Office to get a statement signed when you do not know whether they are in or not. This is a question of balance between the ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, from the outset, I support this Bill. In fact, it has been long overdue. If you can recall, in 2012, there was an amendment when the Elections Act was put together. Then, there was the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Act in 2012 where the Elections Act was amended so that anybody who is participating in an election would not hold a harambee eight months prior to the election date. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you saw for yourself in the last elections how important and powerful that particular amendment was; in terms of bringing together issue-based competition ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for that gesture because I would like the Mover of the Bill – the very able Professor – to consider this final point. The Bill proposes numerous committees and, in fact, it creates many centres that are necessarily going to be funded whether by the national Government or by the county administrations. I propose that those committees be eliminated because we will just be creating other centres of corruption. People will go to one of the offices that the Senator The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to seek guidance as a matter of procedure going forward on these Petitions. I am concerned about petitions from Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) because they have oversight capacity on county governments and, particularly, on governors. The MCAs have the capacity to recommend serious action on governors, including impeachment and so on. In view of that particular constitutional mandate that MCAs have, if we entertain and say that a single or two MCAs can bring a petition to this House and we get petitions from 47 counties, how do we ... view
• 3 Mar 2015 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also wish to seek a clarification regarding the training of the reservists who are used in these places. It is one thing to present a volunteer or a young person with a gun and quite another to actually train them so that they can use these guns. Is there some determination of how many reservists are on either side or is there a possibility that one side has got more reservists than the other side? We can only get to a position where one side does not attack the other when either ... view