Rev. Mutava Musyimi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. The point that the hon. Member for the great people of Gem has raised is an important issue and I think it is important, in the interest of setting the tone that I have the opportunity to respond to it. It is true that the CS, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, did not appear before their Committee. view
• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: I thank my good friend Hon. Katoo ole Metito. In view of what he has said, let us do first things first. view
• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I respect what the Member for Gem has said. At the risk of repeating myself, I will say what I said. First, the fact is that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) called me herself. I did not call her. That happened when I was sitting in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Other Members of the Committee are here and they will confirm that, that is what happened because I told them who I was speaking to. We then discussed the issue. She apologized that she was not able to appear before the Committee because she was in ... view
• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: issue. So, both of them were away. view
• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: I wish the Member for the great people of Gem would listen because he has raised the question and I would like him to, at least, make an attempt to hear me. view
• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: In that situation, a representative was sent to the Committee and the Committee deliberated and made a decision. We discussed at length how we could deal with the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We wondered whether we were going to act punitively to exercise sanctions because the Cabinet Secretary or the Principal Secretary did not appear. We debated all that and finally made the decision that it was the right thing that we support her budget. view
• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: That is not the only Ministry that we dealt with. There are many other Committees that brought recommendation for changes and we used our discretion not to honour their recommendations, not because we have super plenary powers. The word “super” talks of not just bad faith, but ill faith, unfortunately. We have no super powers. But according to the Standing Orders, a report has to be brought here by the Budget and Appropriations Committee based on the recommendations of the other Committees. view
• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: Is it, therefore, possible to look at the recommendations of a Committee and not honour them? Yes, it is. At the end of the day, we must bring these recommendations to the Treasury. The law requires that, at the end of the day, we sit with the Treasury so that we can look at all the excess funds the Committees want to see whether the Treasury has that money. We should also ask ourselves whether if we deny these Ministries the money, we are denying them rightly or not. Sometimes, we go back to the Chairs and ask for clarifications. view
• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: The Committee has discretion given to it by the Standing Orders. Chairs of Committees deal with the Cabinet Secretaries and we deal with the Treasury. But every once in a while, the Committee meets with the Head of the national Government and I normally report these things. There is nothing to hide. We are all elected leaders. I told my Committee that sometimes this week, I will have an opportunity to meet the President, so that I could brief him about the Budget. I find nothing wrong with that, so that I can tell him how far we have gone ... view
• 27 May 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I have heard what my good friend, Hon. Chepkong’a, Member for Ainabkoi and the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, has said. He is a man whom I have a lot of respect for, as I have for all the other Members. We have a problem. He was not here in the morning. The English people have a phrase; there is something they call “honest mistakes”. Honest mistakes are those made in good faith. In other words, there is no agenda but it is a mistake. It is very possible that honest ... view