Dr. Nuh Nassir Abdi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 891 to 900 of 1551.

• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would have been persuaded to support this Motion if it were not for the Motions that follow thereafter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, just as Mr. George Nyamweya has said, this Procedural Motion that is being moved to extend the Sitting Time until the closure of whatever business that is in the Order Paper, is a launching pad for the Motions to follow, which virtually means denying this House the right to scrutinize the Bills. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this House is not subordinate to any other body. For us to be persuaded that the Bills have gone through ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you. That is why I said that the Motion itself is anticipating whatever Motions are supposed to come later on. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if Kenyans have been persuaded that, if these Bills are not passed on time, this country will crumble and people will die, then that is not the case. The Constitution itself envisaged a situation where--- Maybe, the drafters of the Constitution knew the snail’s pace at which this Government operates. It looks like a wheel barrow, as one hon. Member put it before. It will never move until you have to move ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for your guidance. I meant the Executive arm of the Government. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I withdraw the word “Government” and now include the “Executive arm of Government”. Having clarified that--- view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in case the Member for Kathiani does not understand, I am using an idiom here. A wheelbarrow will never move until you move it. That is what the Executive arm of Government has become because it has taken a lot of cajoling, coercion, debate, pushing and shoving for them to bring these Bills to Parliament. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I do not know how to put it, but I was just trying to read through the oath and I thought that there is a typographical error on the second last line that starts “impartially and to the best of my ability discharge the trust and perform the functions and exercise the powers”. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I do not think hon. Eseli is doing justice to the amendment. Is he in order to mislead the House that, indeed, we have removed the Clause which states that when someone is quitting a party, he or she will give notice? We only removed the timeline. The notice is there. In fact, we said “upon written notice”. So, hon. Eseli is not in order to mislead the House by saying that we have removed the Clause requiring a member to give notice of quitting a party. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to be very precise and brief because I do not want this to consume so much time. I want to oppose this amendment. This is basically for one reason; the scenario being portrayed here, that once a Member of Parliament has presented his nomination certificate with a list, a member would purport that he has resigned from the party does not apply. This is because the member is not resigning on the spot. We said that such notification should be given to the Registrar. The Registrar--- view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the notification to the Registrar would also take some time, at whatever time it is. I would want to urge Members that there is no mischief in this amendment to remove the clause for some time limit to be put. As Mr. Kimunya has put it, once I have decided to quit a party, why would you want to restrain me in law to keep me in that party for 14 days or even 24 hours? Once a member has decided, he has made it explicit within his mind; he must have searched his or ... view
• 18 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This matter is very weighty and the fact that hon. Yakub, who sought the Ministerial Statement was expecting this Statement on Tuesday, it feels like he has been ambushed because there is even a Statement he has requested me to ask on his behalf. Would I, kindly, request that the interrogation of this matter be further deferred until hon. Yakub is in this House? view