Mwangi Kiunjuri

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I stand to oppose the amendment and I have reasons for doing that. When the Ligale Report was tabled in the House, we really opposed it, but all the same it was passed by the House. That is the truth of the matter. The former President gerrymandered constituencies and at the end of the day, lost those constituencies. The fact that somebody might think that the Commission did something queer by gerrymandering or not balancing, we should know that by now, political support has changed and will continue changing forever. Secondly, there will be other reviews. view
• 31 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I withdraw. But anybody who has a feeling that maybe the Ligale Committee did not do its work the right way, should know that already the last few months can tell you how political support has been going on. The country is not stagnating. We shall have other reviews in future. As a way forward, therefore, it is only important that we support this amendment. Lastly, in the case of distribution per province, nobody can claim that their province was denied the rightful share. We can argue of other cases, but for now, we are comfortable with ... view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Bill. It is very important that, for the first time, we will be able to regulate this industry. Looking at the functions of the Authority, it is very clear, in Clause 5(1) that the objects for which the Authority is being established are to oversee the construction industry and co-ordinate its development. It is very clear that the Authority is going to co- ordinate activities concerning construction. I believe that, for the first time in the history of this country, we will get value for money. If you analyse corruption ... view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the second level is the issue of supplies. The two are related; that is construction and supply. This is the only industry where Kenyans make super profits. It is the only industry where collusion is done. A contract can be tailor-made for a particular person and, therefore, even profits are determined before a contract is given out. Before we go to tender, already we know that so-and-so will win the tender. There is collusion between the consultants, the engineers who bring the estimates and the contractors. Everything is tied together and people know in advance ... view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Why does this happen? It is because even Ministries, for example, that have no capacity whatsoever to even hire or procure consultants or engineers, will pretend that they can do their work. Look at what happened last year through the Economic Stimulus Programme. The Ministry of Education pretended that they can become contractors and, therefore, they are the ones now doing the construction of centres of excellence across the country. They asked the Ministry of Public Works to go and supervise and yet they do not even know how the contract was tendered. They want to misuse them by calling ... view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance indicated the other day that 30 percent of our Budget goes to corruption. If we will not have institutions that will be firm enough and can be respected and really do their work, this trend will continue. We shall continue saying that we are poor and the Turkana of this country are dying of hunger. You can imagine 30 percent of the Budget of a trillion that was read in the last financial year, which is Kshs300 billion, will go to the ... view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: On the conduct of the contractors, we have come up with penalties but they must be very heavy. I agree with my colleagues, because at the end of the day, these contractors are arrogant. They are not regulated on how many contracts a contractor should have at one particular time. That is why we get a lot of incompetence in their work. You can imagine a contractor with more than eight contracts worth billions of Kenya shillings and has no capacity to run all of them. That is the worst thing that we are doing. This is especially on African ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also stand to support this very important Bill. I congratulate the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs for the good work he is doing. In fact, I believe it has taken him a lot of time to bring these Bills in good time. This Bill is so important to us, especially when we look at the state we are in today. Already, we have no way. Parliament is struggling to cushion Kenyans against inflation and cost of living. The major reason why we are trying to do this is because we have ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: We have to get a law because there will be a lot of litigation. We have to get a proper tribunal because old habits never die easily. Article 162 on system of courts is very clear. Article 162 (2) states that: view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: “Parliament shall establish courts with the status of the High Court to hear and determine disputes relating to – (a) employment and labour relations;” We should have set up that yesterday! view