Peter Njoroge Baiya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you look at experiences in some of the other countries, we can see that this opportunity for the Committee on General Oversight where we will be interacting with Cabinet Secretaries--- If you look at the size of the Cabinet, that tells you that if it were in the Tenth Parliament where we had a Cabinet of almost 40 members, it does not give Parliament enough opportunity to exercise its oversight responsibility, more so because even when you are in the Committee on General Oversight, a Member who possibly is more skilled or exposed to a ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: The other important thing is that when we summon Cabinet Secretaries to come before the Committee when you know very well that some of them do not have a background in politics - I am not surprised that some changed course - they will require a lot of assurances for them to do it. It is no wonder that the one who managed to come and face this House happened to have been a former Member of Parliament, which means she can withstand the heat but for the others and this is not inferring that they have issues of credibility ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to go on record as saying that the blame on the TA is misplaced. This Authority was set up by this House and given a mandate. However, it is on record that before it was given the opportunity to carry out its mandate, during the Summit meeting the governors pressurized the President to effect a blanket transfer of health services. So, they are the best group to blame. They insisted that they were ready for these services, but it turned out that they were only ready to receive resources and not to deliver services. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the way forward as I see it is that even if the services have been devolved, there were certain functions that were very key in establishing the cost of service delivery at the county. That was supposed to be done by the TA; this is with regard to costing of functions and handling of the functions. They were supposed to review the policy and the legal framework; this should have been done jointly by the Ministry, the TA and the county governments. Functions need to be facilitated and be handled expeditiously, so that we can allocate adequate resources ... view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Article 261(2) of the Constitution, this House resolves to extend the period prescribed for the passage of the Public Service (Values and Principles) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.29 of 2014); the Persons Deprived of Liberty Bill (National Assembly Bill No.30 of 2014); the Environmental Management and Co-ordination (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.31 of 2014); and the periods prescribed for enactment of legislation necessary to give effect to Article 47 relating to fair administrative action, Article 50 relating to fair hearing, Article 226 relating to ... view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: With regard to legislations which have constitutional deadlines--- view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I am highlighting to the hon. Members the legislations that have a constitutional deadline of 27th August, 2014 as stipulated in Schedule Five of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. The legislations relate to consumer protection, under Article 46, fair administrative action under Article 47, fair hearing, under Article 50, rights of persons detained or held in custody under Article 51, environment under Article 72, accounts and audit of public entities under Article 226, procurement of goods and services under Article 227, and values and principles of public service under Article 232. Hon. Speaker, on the status ... view
• 19 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: national Government and introduced in this House. It has already gone through First Reading. It is due for Second Reading on 2nd September, 2014 – after the 27th August 2014 constitutional deadline. In the same stage is the legislation relating to environment, under Article 72. A Bill has already gone through the First Reading. It is due for Second Reading around the same time. Likewise, there is legislation relating to audit of public entities. As on 10th July, 2014 the National Treasury had completed preparation of the draft Bill, which was forwarded to the CIC. It is now being processed ... view