Patrick Makau King'ola

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance. At the outset, I appreciate the passion that the Mover and the Seconder have exhibited on this Bill. It is very serious and it touches the hearts of the Members of this House. I want to remind Members that by discussing this Bill, I do not know why we are feared. It should be known that the moment you are voted in there is a culture and tradition of voters starting to hate you. So, when we are here to discuss our pension all Members must be alive to ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: I do not understand why when we contribute towards our pension and discuss on ways to make it better this makes anybody feel bad. I concur and support Members who feel like me that, the SRC gazetted that Members who served in 2013 would get a gratuity of 31.5 per cent. If SRC does not give that money to us this is fraud and should be said so. So, as we grapple with this Bill SRC should be reminded that they owe us a lot of money. view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Secondly, I have heard the Leader of the Majority Party talk about a defined pension. I want to tell this House that history has been made since we got new officials of Parliamentary Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (PACOSO). Every Member of the housing SACCO of Parliament is today a proud owner of plots and we will build for them houses. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: It is very painful for a Member of Parliament to be poor yet, he or she was once a high- ranking person in this country. I want to encourage Members who are not members of PACOSO to join immediately because you do not know about tomorrow, and you should save here. Today, members of the housing SACCO can smile all the way. They have plots which we bought for only Ksh1 million and are now going for Ksh3 million. By the time you leave here, that plot will be about Ksh5 million. Parliament agreed that we have a defined pension. ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Yesterday I had a chance to watch Senate proceedings. This topic of points of order arose. There are many Members who were intervening on points of order yet they want to contribute. This is a House of rules and regulations. If a Member is rising on a point of order, they must state it as it is in the Standing Order. Do not just allow someone to say “point of order” and he or she is not stating… view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when a Member is contributing and so many points of order, which are not even pointed at him... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is important for Members to support this Bill. As I said, we should fear being poor. We must invest and pursue that line of SRC that they pay us as per the Gazette Notice that was issued by SRC. We should not forget that especially for you and me who are affected by such. Again, let me remind Members. It is true and very unfortunate that as we contribute, we fear what Kenyans will say. This is our own contribution and welfare. I think we should put it the way it is. We ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to weigh in on this Public Service (Values and Principles) (Amendment) Bill. I join my colleagues who agree that it is about equity, diversity and equal opportunity for every Kenyan. Public service is the only sustainable job that Kenyans can get. It has security of tenure. If not well distributed, it will go to some sectors and regions and discrimination will arise. We have seen in the past a few accounting officers do not even adhere to the public service principles. They will employ their own without caring. Today in this ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Sometimes it takes me aback. You walk into a public office and you find more than 50 per cent of the personnel come from the same region or speak in the same language and yet it is in our Constitution that a certain number of people from the same ethnic group should not work at the same place. However when you walk to these offices, because of impunity and what the previous speaker said – greed – someone fills an office with his relatives and tribesmen. I think it is high time we started fighting corruption from within. The National ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: access to information. Sometimes it is put in so small adverts in the dailies that you cannot see or if they put it today, tomorrow there are interviews. So, you can image someone who is in Turkana or Lamu and the interviews are being done in Nairobi. How will they participate? view