Rev. Mutava Musyimi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1281 to 1290 of 1501.

• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important that we give his honourable House and our people the time to engage on a matter that is very key and central. We thank this honourable House for the land policy. We thank our people for enacting a new Constitution; I think we must admit that the enjoyment of a new Constitution is as good as the enabling legislation that we enact. It is absolutely crucial that we respect that Constitution in terms of giving our people the time to engage and participate, so that we can have quality legislation. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Executive - and in this I thank the hon. James Orengo - has done its part in giving our people the time to participate in the Bills that are before us but, unfortunately, this honourable House, through its committee, would have wished to have the opportunity to also engage the public. Indeed, only yesterday I was talking to the Clerk of the National Assembly, and we were planning to have the hearings out in the provincial headquarters, so that people will have time to look at the Bills and time to also engage them. The ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my committee did the following - I will say this and then sit down. We feared the Executive in respect of these Bills; so, we organised and went to Naivasha. In Naivasha, we called the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC), the Land Reform Commission and other respectable members of the civil society under the sponsorship of the State University of New York (SUNY). We went through the draft Bills as we had them at the time. They sat together and they were able to enrich the Bills that we have today. As I ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the sovereignty of this Republic belongs to the Kenyan people. It is not just the Back Bench that has been ambushed, but the people of this Republic. We got the Land Registration Bill, as a Committee, last week around Wednesday. We got the National Land Bill, which is the substantive Bill only two days ago. How are we, even as a Committee of this House, expected to transact serious business within about three days? That is the dilemma we are in and that is the tragedy of this discussion. The Executive is not being truthful on ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: As I sit down, because of the shortage of time, the CIC, the LSK and the Law Reform Commission are meeting just now to look at some of the recommendations made yesterday and last week in respect of this Bill, so that this Committee will do its best to have some serious recommendations in its attempts to amend these Bills, so that the amendments will not just be constitutional, but will also have some kind of quality. It is most unfortunate that the Kenyan people will not have the opportunity to make their input into these Bills. I, therefore, support ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Minister in order to mislead this House? The Executive has had about a year and a half to give us these Bills. It is now giving us about four or five days to enact these Bills. Is the minister in order? view
• 15 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to second the Motion. view
• 15 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: We were privileged to be part of an interview panel yesterday. As you know, we have not met for a good nine months or so. We did our job. We were all very impressed by the qualifications of the nominees. They struck us as career people. They struck us as decent Kenyans. They struck us as people who can do a good job in most places. On that, we were unanimous. We were equally unanimous that something was lacking. The only word we could get for that was “passion”. Having asked the question: “How do you define ‘passion?” I was ... view
• 15 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not an easy position to take because we were taking a position on people who have gone through some thorough vetting but we are the Committee. Mind you, we have not found ourselves agreeing on a lot of things. So, it struck me as quite interesting that on this aspect, we actually--- view
• 15 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Do I proceed, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir? view