Onesmus Muthomi Njuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you. This is one of the greatest things that have happened in the agricultural sector this morning. Most of the people rely on packed cereals. The only other thing that is packed in 50 kilogramme bag is cement, which is not an issue. When you look at the fines that have been put there, I take this opportunity to oppose what Hon. Washiali was suggesting, that we should have stiffer fines. Out there, we have very informal operations. People who operate business such as maize, potatoes, groundnuts and even arrowroots may not have good machines for measuring 50 kilogramme ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a very serious House and a House of records. My friend keeps on insisting that for you to get an ID card, you have to come to Nairobi. He knows very well that fingerprints and everything else are taken at the sub-county level. The delay is caused by the system. People do not have to come to Nairobi to apply for or collect ID cards. So, it is good for him to put the record straight rather than lie to Kenyans that you have to come to Nairobi to get an ID card. That ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for the opportunity. It is important for members to know that when you get here at 9.30 in the morning, you can talk as many times as you want. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you have been lenient because you gave a chance to members who just came in just because people had spoken earlier. I appreciate that. At the outset, I support this Motion. I will seek an amendment to this Motion in a while. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for being uncorrupted. At the outset, I support this Motion. We are looking at a situation that used to be there before. It is not the first time we are seeking for the IDs to be issued from the county, sub-county or the district level. It used to happen and is the time when we never had very advanced technology and systems in place. We did not have the kind of communication we have at the moment. Now that we have Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems which can interconnect the national identity cards ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: like the way banks are at the moment. It is possible to issue IDs from the county and still be verified at the national level without necessarily having them being taken all the way to Nairobi for printing. I know that we used to have a limited time of two days after your fingerprints and photo had been taken and then we get our identity card. Today, it takes up to a number of months that we have been told about. This is possible and it can be done. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Issuing identity cards from Nairobi has increased corruption in this country. When you delay justice and service delivery, people get tempted to induce the officers concerned for the service to be delivered fast. Therefore, issuing identity cards at the county level will reduce the level of corruption in this case. We need to look at the reason why the initial system of issuing IDs at the county level was abolished. Why was it stopped? It was stopped because we had a lot of malpractices that saw foreigners being issued with IDs at the sub-county level. For security reasons, it became ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Lastly, the type of IDs that we should be getting today should not be the same as the ones that were issued in 1974. With ICT systems in place, it is possible today to have a smart ID, which has all your details instead of having many other cards like the NHIF and others that we normally carry around. It is possible to integrate all of them into one card and have verification done using mark barcodes so that we can take care of security issues as well. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Motion. view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I oppose this amendment by the Senate. Most of us in politics know the civil society as trouble-makers. Some of the people who bring pigs at the entrance of Parliament are normally sponsored by the civil society. However, the members of the civil society are normally the voice of the voiceless in society. If it were not for the civil society at one particular point in time, we would have had very tall buildings at Uhuru Park. They played a very big role. For that reason, it is critical to have ... view