Dr. Patrick Mweu Musimba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 525.

• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Article 223 gives the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury the discretion while this House is not in session to make expenditures to cover gaps. The people we are dealing with are the people of the Republic of Kenya who enacted this Constitution and gave us to be custodians for their livelihoods. You cannot affect the very nature of the going concern or aspirations of these people. In the case, you heard the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury passing the buck saying he needs an advisory opinion from the Attorney General and when it goes to the Attorney General, he says ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: This House should take this step. We need to move farther and say how we will safeguard or look at the grey areas of the Act, so that the divisions that exist between the National Assembly and the Senate are a thing of the past. All of us are creations of the Constitution. Indeed, as the reviews continue, we want to see a greater involvement by the CRA in terms of looking at where these revenue streams are going to come from. How do we reduce or better our consumption habits as a nation? We need to reduce on imports, ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: dependent on legumes which grow freely. The realities of our arid and semi-arid lands, for instance, Ukambani and a greater part of this country, is that they are experiencing drought. Mitigation measures will come from the counties themselves. We should see how to streamline this towards the budget-making process which begins in February. At this juncture, I thank the BAC. I support this initiative. It should go through. The Senate should also agree with it and concur with the National Assembly without taking us to another Mediation Committee. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, I want to highlight the importance of elections in this country and especially the electoral processes that we experienced in 2007, 2013 and 2017. It has become pretty momentous to note that lives and livelihoods of Kenyans are greatly affected by elections. What we seek when we have elections is to have a seamless form that leaves Kenya as a going concern and does not portend any sort of anxiety in the populace, in Kenyans, investors and the people who have key things that are ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: As to the selection panel that we are discussing and in the form that we are discussing it, I would simply highlight the fact that we, as politicians, cannot run away from our duty. First and foremost, we must have confidence in the people we have, who are ultimately going to preside over the elections that come forth. Therefore, the selection panel that will emanate from this process needs to be beyond reproach like Caesar’s wife. It must be of utmost integrity. We must question every single element that we have put in this Bill, including the body that will ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Religious people are major stakeholders in terms of peace building and keeping the momentum of elections in this nation. As Parliament, we ought to completely take charge of the selection process of the IEBC Commissioners. Why do I say so? We have seen what the past looked like. We come in and say that we have white smoke. This is where we have been, even in terms of the EACC in the big fight against corruption. This is a big issue for the progress of this nation. But how was it sorted out? The minute we had Wabukala as Chair ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: I have not seen a body that brings together all the political parties, which are major stakeholders. There is no nominee from them. These are gaps which must be filled. While I accept that all Bills come to this House and we have to go through them, there is a danger that once we get to the point of putting the Question... For instance, if this Bill is shot down because it does not have a majority support, the question as to how do deal with it will linger. The next attempt to have it passed will be after six ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: This remains a big gap which we need to look into. As we consider those names, we have to ask ourselves whether the term of the current chair and the two commissioners who have stuck on and saved the by-elections has lapsed. We would have had a crisis if all the commissioners had stepped aside. So, what happens to them? The transition clause is in place. The next vacancy of chairperson or commissioner is when it falls due. It will be superseded by events of this Bill once it is enacted into law. We must come again retrospectively and look ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: On the issue of whether to expand the membership from nine to 11 commissioners, the spirit in this House is clear, especially now that we have issues to do with resources. We have always said that the membership of commissions needs to be reduced, and that they should be made part-time commissions. Nothing in this Bill is suggesting that. We are trying to accommodate as many people, but we are not providing for a minimum number. We should provide for a minimum number. All our commissions need to have a uniform number. There must be a rationale for expanding the ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what is more emotive is if a nation cannot look at itself in the mirror to decide whether we have permanency of the people who will consider our commissioners, and especially our independent commissions and whether those independent commissions have the benefit of having permanency so that they have institutional knowledge. This is because we have seen, time and again, that the executive of the commission gets to override the commissioners. view