Peter Njoroge Baiya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for avoidance of doubt and to satisfy Hon. Wamalwa, I second. view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for also giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. At the outset, I want to thank Hon. Nyokabi for taking the initiative to make this Bill see the light of day in the National Assembly. It is one of the key Bills intended to help in the implementation of the Constitution under Article 35, as has been properly stated. The only difference is that it is not among those Bills that are expressly included in Schedule V of the Constitution. But there is no doubt that even under Schedule V the very ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: The CS has subjected the National Assembly to that unenviable position of keeping it waiting for this Bill. It is the case that the last time this Bill was developed by the Ministry was in the year 2012. We are now talking about 2015. view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Sorry, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Possibly, the Member has not really understood me. I am trying to outline the challenges the National Assembly has gone through with the Ministries in coming up with this Bill. The gist of my submission is that we know the Government is making an initiative to come up with the Bill, but they have had the time from 2012. This is past the fifth year yet, they have not done much. This gives us all the more reasons why we should support this Private Member’s Bill. That should assuage the Member that I am far ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: At the Committee level, as recently as a month ago, the CS promised to come up with the version of the Bill within two weeks. Therefore, I urge the House to actually take the initiative and develop this Bill involving the Departmental Committee and come up with this Bill. Indeed, we are also going to take the initiative to have the Data Protection Bill developed because the CS has not actually developed it. One of us is actually going to also bring a Private Member’s Bill. If the Government wants an amendment, it will be open to them. They can ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: The importance of this Bill is quite evident as far as implementing this new Constitution is concerned and even Vision 2030 which the Government has committed itself to say it is one of its key goals. It is an issue-based society. Such an issue-based society where politics will be based on issues can only be possible if the public and all the key stakeholders are enlightened and have the right information. Even when it comes to our own politics, some of the challenges we have had in our politics are negative ethnicity, among others. It is quite clear, and the ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Report on Government agencies. This partly arises from the fact that under the old system, we used to have a backlog in terms of audit, spanning over a period of several years. With those remarks, I beg to support the Bill. view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee on its consideration of extension of the life of the Commission for Implementation of the Constitution beyond 29th December 2015 pursuant to Section 5(7) of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution laid on the Table of the House today, Wednesday, 18th November, 2015. Thank you. view
• 14 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. The way this clause is currently worded is really dangerous. It is dangerous because the institution of Parliament in any meaningful democracy is such that Members should have the opportunity and privilege to express themselves freely without fear. On the other hand, we know that there is the need to maintain law and order in the House. Those powers are already conferred on the Speaker and the Serjeant-at-Arms. The way this clause is worded dangerously introduces harsh police measures as to curb the freedom of expression. I, therefore, do not support the amendment or ... view