Peter Njoroge Baiya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: So, the Presidential Award Scheme should really recognise that the President is the most important office comprising our nationhood and, therefore, we need to recognise performance. It should be an all-encompassing system of recognising performance across the board from leadership, production, workers, teachers, students and young people. This is the most important thing. The kind of Board we are talking about should bring on board persons who in one way or another will help contribute to the development of a policy. We have heard Kenyans who say that we are very poor in recognising and awarding heroes in this country. ... view
• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: So, the Presidential Award Scheme should really recognise that the President is the most important office comprising our nationhood and, therefore, we need to recognise performance. It should be an all-encompassing system of recognising performance across the board from leadership, production, workers, teachers, students and young people. This is the most important thing. The kind of Board we are talking about should bring on board persons who in one way or another will help contribute to the development of a policy. We have heard Kenyans who say that we are very poor in recognising and awarding heroes in this country. ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute and support these regulations. Listening to where the country is moving to as perceived by the leaders, one thing that comes out quite disturbingly is the fact that, as a country, we identify problems and we are not incapable as far as identifying problems and challenges are concerned. We identify solutions, but when it comes to actual implementation, we seem to have a gap in terms of trusting ourselves; trusting that we can actually do what we have undertaken to give to ourselves. I am saying this ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: the election laws. All parties have opportunity to use all those windows conferred by the law to verify the process. Otherwise, I am very sure going by the kind of reforms and changes we have pushed to implement within our electoral framework, the country is most probably going to undertake elections very effectively and very efficiently. About the integrated elections management system, we know that time constraint was the main factor that caused the IEBC to cancel that tender, and even prefer going to the same manufacturer who had supplied the biometric computer system in 2013 for very obvious reasons. ... view
• 5 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I just hope that after we have done this, the electoral system that we will be putting in place will be effective to an extent the elections will be won and lost before people can comment about what they thought was going on because of the efficiency of the system. It is every Kenyan’s right to have a fair and credible electoral system. I believe we have made so much progress in this regard. These regulations will seal all the gaps and assure Kenyans of fair and peaceful elections. I beg to support. view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to note and appreciate His Excellency the President for the Speech that he gave. The Speech by the President is a creation of the Constitution that the President, once every year, will give a State of the Nation Address in terms of values, international obligations as well as security. However, it appears that some sections of the Members of Parliament have beef with this same thing that we put in the Constitution. Let it be appreciated that when the President speaks, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report ... view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: he speaks as an institution. He is the President of the Republic and he is giving a state of affairs vis-à-vis what his Government is doing. It is being said that he did not say this or that. Certainly, in a Report, there is no way the President can manage to give everything. He can only highlight the things that are being done. It is very interesting to hear what some of our colleagues in the Opposition have said to the point even of objecting to statistical information that is contained in very standard documentation. As a matter of fact, ... view
• 21 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Even when we talk about issues like devolution, this is a very significant achievement this country has made. We did not expect and never dreamt about realising all the positive advantages of devolution. However, the most important thing is that we can see there is a clear commitment by the Government to implement the new system and the constitution. When we say that we have a devolved system, some of the work on the discrepancies we are talking about needed to be done by this National Assembly. If you keep blaming the President for every failure in this country, I ... view
• 16 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to agree substantially with what the Leader of the Majority Party is saying in so far as changing the title of CIOC into any other. It is quite clear that the CIOC was created by the Constitution and it is not within the Committee’s mandate to make that kind of recommendation. However, the main decision we are seeking is to have Parliament set up a stand-alone committee to oversee implementation of devolution. I want to admit that the reference to changing the CIOC to any other is a problem and I will ask that ... view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have just listened to what Hon. Wamalwa has just stated. He is simply succumbing to the usurpation of the constitutional limits that are clearly set within our Constitution. Our Constitution has actually given all the arms of Government very specific lines of responsibilities and each has that responsibility to safeguard its space from encroachment from any other arm. That is the essence of our Constitution. When the Judiciary makes an order purporting to direct how this House will conduct its internal affairs, that is clearly where usurpation of power happens and the only thing that ... view