Paul Muite

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 May 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. You can see it is, in fact, very shortly after 5.00 p.m. and we have virtually one-and-half hours left. Could the Chair do something to get the Leader of Government Business and the House Business Committee to, at least, list matters on the Order Paper in which there is a lot of interest, so that we can debate them? An example is the Miscellaneous Statute Law (Amendment) Bill which we debated earlier. Why is the House Business Committee not bringing some of these Bills forward so that we can debate ... view
• 25 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 25 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wanted to inform the professor that if he looks at the amendments proposed by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs under Clause 5A on page six, he will see that the Committee has recommended the very point that he has made. The proposed amendment is as follows:- "Where two or more political parties resolve to form a coalition before or after an election, the instruments of the coalition agreement shall be deposited with the Registrar for the purposes of arbitration between the political parties under this Act." April 25, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES ... view
• 25 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, since the Departmental Committee on the Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs has done some work on this Bill and we made a report, I shall be very brief. Ours now is to listen to the contributions from Members so that, during the Committee Stage, we can take on board the suggestions and wishes of hon. Members. The Committee is a servant of this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to begin by thanking the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs for taking the initiative to bring this Bill to this House. ... view
• 25 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: For a long time, we treated parties as if they are societies. Political parties are registered. If you go and form a society for selling fish or eggs, your society and a political party are regulated and governed by the same Societies Act. It is a shame that for so many years, we have not recognised that political parties are in effect, by nature and essence, not societies. They are political parties! They have always needed a separate statute to regulate and to govern them, away from the other societies. We are also correcting a major imbalance of allowing the ... view
• 25 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Did you hear the hon. Member for Laikipia West say that it is as if Members of Parliament were waiting to receive without thinking? Is that not a little insulting? Every hon. Member here thinks! view
• 24 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. In supporting the Supplementary Estimates, I would wish to take this opportunity to appeal to the Minister to make an effort to have respect for this House. This House is not a rubber stamp. The constitutional authority of authorising withdrawals from the Consolidated Fund is vested in this House by the Constitution. So, we are not a rubber stamp. If it were not for the fact that hon. Nyachae has explained very clearly here that, in fact, the roads programmes are not going to be affected in respect to the Kshs1.9 billion that ... view
• 24 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason why I am asking the Minister to have respect for this House is because of several examples. This House passed the Banking (Amendment) Act. As hon. Members will remember, we debated the Memorandum from His Excellency the President and in this House's wisdom, the House rejected the proposed deletion of Section 44 of the Banking Act. Since then the Minister has elected to refuse to gazette that Act and, therefore, it has not been brought into operation. Why is that so? It is because of disrespect to this House. The Minister, I suspect, ... view
• 24 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister should lay that Gazette Notice on the Table, because the last time I referred to that Act, it had not been brought into operation. With regard to Keroche -and I do not want to indulge in an exchange with the Minister - the Minister will remember having a discussion with the hon. Dr. Oburu, the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. He told him that the decision they had made was useless, because he was going to change the schedule. view
• 24 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other point that I would like to make is that when the Minister was moving this Supplementary Budget, he said he is asking for some more money because of prior contractual commitments made by the Government. I have gone through those Supplementary Estimates and I do not see any provision in respect of particular prior commitments. I am referring to the irrevocable promissory notes in respect of the Anglo Leasing scandal. These are prior commitments. An irrevocable promissory note is a promise to pay when the promissory note is presented by the holder. In ... view