Nimrod Mbithuka Mbai

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Inyali area is a gazetted game reserve. There are human settlement or police operations there. The game reserve is guarded by the Kenya Wildlife Service. The police never got into Inyali. It is not within the game reserve. The police did not use bulldozers. The County Commissioner is not in charge of any bulldozer. So, saying that the Inspector-General of Police used bulldozers to bring down schools and private houses is a total lie before the House. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the ... view
• 29 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Lastly, there is a problem that needs to be... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity. As a Member of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security, I am not happy with it being put under disrepute. It is true the Committee under the chairmanship of Hon. Koinange sat and decided that due to the many Questions from Members, we sub-divide ourselves into sub-committees, which would deal with specific Questions and present reports for adoption by the whole Committee. It is true I am a Member of the sub- committee chaired by Hon. Kaluma and Hon. Barasa is our Vice-Chair. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I would like to guide my brother, Hon. Barasa, that the day we sat and sub- divided ourselves into sub-committees, he was not present. The day we held elections for leadership of the sub-committees, Hon. Barasa was around and the day we sat over Questions, Hon. Barasa was not in. It is out of his absence that his Question could not be tackled. The day we sat and handled his concern, he was not around and the Chair had to add us more Members so that we could get quorum to handle the matter. So, I kindly request ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak to this Bill. I rise in support of the Bill. The Bill gives clarity to the definition of special interest groups. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The strength of the Bill is that it gives clarity to the definition of special interest groups in our country. The words “interest groups” have been taunted to mean more about women or the two-thirds gender rule. In this instance, we have a clear definition of special interest groups and where they fit. The other strength of the Bill is its intention to institutionalise the affirmative action in terms of representation of special interest groups. We have had instances where when we talk of the two-thirds gender rule, it has been seen to be more skewed towards representation of either ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The other strength of the Bill is that it draws the whole discussion away from the traditional discussion on the two-thirds gender rule that has been seen to mean two-thirds of either gender in any formal meeting as we have been trying to address the challenge in the constitution of the House. On this one, the discussion is now being moved from the gender- related matters to special interest groups. Somebody can live with disability or be challenged. It can be a lady, a man or a homosexual. view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Another thing about the Bill is that we have had the perennial challenge from the last Parliament of not addressing this matter to conclusion. We had an attempt last year to address this matter, but it now looks like it has the full support because it has tried to speak to the matters which brought challenges in passing the Bill in the other instances. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this time, the Committee went ahead and tried to iron out all the issues. The Bill settles most of the issues that brought the challenges in the other instances when we had ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: As I support the Bill, I will speak to the fellow Members in the House and persuade them to support the Bill, so that we can settle the matter of the two-thirds gender rule vis-à-vis Parliament being seen as not being able to address the challenge. view