Peter Njoroge Baiya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I beg to reply. view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon Deputy Speaker, I said the mandate of the Board was to vet all judges and magistrates, who were in office as at 10th August, 2010. There are none in service who was not vetted. The last judge against whom there was a suit that was prohibiting the Board from vetting, was Justice Ombija and the Board had indicated that they will deal with that. I am not sure whether he has resigned or is still serving. That is one of the reasons why they are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: requesting for extension of three months. The other factor is that they also need to prepare their final reports. They have vet all magistrates and the last group to be vet was Senior Principal Magistrates. The delay in vetting them had been occasioned by a court order that stopped the process. Once the order was removed, we needed to extend time. Those magistrates could not move to the next stage in terms of promotion without undergoing vetting. It was mandatory and necessary to ensure that the Board vetted them because as per the law, they could not seek appointments or ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I want to assure the Member that all the cases that needed to be vetted under the law have already been vetted. The others may be cases that arisen after the cutoff date. If a magistrate or judge was vetted and a new case arose post the cut-off date, that was to be dealt with by the JSC and not the Vetting Board. view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you. I support the proposed amendment by Hon. Lentoimaga. This proposal is providing for a mechanism of conservation of involving the community and making it clear that the relevant forest agency can enter into an agreement and set terms and conditions to be met by the community. This is the most effective way of involving communities in conservation and we are only giving it legal recognition and we are not saying the terms. So, the relevant agency will set out the clear terms the community has to meet. We are only making the community part and parcel of conservation. view
• 25 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to move this Motion. I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House notes the Report of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee on Consideration of Extension of the Term of the Transition Authority, laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 18th February, 2016. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Transition Authority (TA), as Members may be aware, was established under Section 4 of the Transition to Devolved Government Act. The main role of the TA under Section 7(1) of that Act is to facilitate and co-ordinate the ... view
• 25 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: governments. It also determines the resource requirement for each of the functions. Other functions of the TA are clearly established under Section 7(2) of that Act. The process of implementing the Constitution is still ongoing. However, the transition period of the TA is coming to an end on 4th March, 2016. Its constitutional term of three years is coming to an end on 4th March, 2016. A critical question arises; can the life of the Authority be extended beyond 5th March, 2016? This forms the basis of this Report. For the Committee to make an evidence-based assessment of the need ... view
• 25 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: assets and liabilities of 175 defunct local authorities, conducted, prepared and audited inventory. They also issued advisories and publicised the moratorium on the transfer of assets and liabilities for their effective control during the transition period. They also developed guidelines and granted approvals for the disposal of obsolete public assets. The TA also issued guidelines for the transition of staff to the counties and prepared a report on establishment of county staff pension scheme through an inter-agency technical committee to facilitate transfer of services. They also facilitated limited deployment and transfer of staff. They prepared and proposed a County Government ... view
• 25 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: of CARPS programme with regard to deployment and rationalisation of staff, finalisation of the mechanism for closure and transfer of public records and information, facilitation of implementation of the County Pension Scheme, facilitation of transfer of services and bundling and transfer of functions of State corporations, realistic costing function of the remaining other 13 ministries or sectors and departments, facilitation and development of public participation and civic education frameworks, publishing and disseminating civic education materials, curriculum training, manual verification, validation and audit of all existing assets and liabilities. Those were some of the pending functions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the ... view
• 25 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: As to the creation of capacity for national and county government, the Cabinet Secretary was of the view that capacity building was the function of the national Government and not the county governments or the TA. On the establishment of the status of ongoing reform process, projects and programme, the Cabinet Secretary was of the view that this is not a function of the TA. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Cabinet Secretary proposed the following recommendations:- (i) The Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee as well the TA had agreed to work together to ensure a seamless handover to the technical committee ... view