Peter Njoroge Baiya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for coming to my aid. I respect my learned colleague and I will make my remaining arguments. If you look at Article 190(1) of the Constitution, it actually obligates Parliament to support county government. It reads:- “Parliament shall by legislation ensure that county governments have adequate support to enable them to perform their functions.”That section does not actually require Parliament to usurp the functions of county assembly. view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: ( Applause ) view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: It does not require Parliament either National Assembly or Senate to usurp either of the functions of the county government, but to enact legislation to support them. It is clear the Act as brought before the House, violates these very clear Constitutional principles. It is true, we appreciate that we have problems and challenges at the county level. We know that the county governments are not functioning as they are designed to. I believe the recourse or solution to these challenges is not to violate the Constitution. It is to seek solutions within law or the Constitution. view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: ( Applause ) view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: For instance, in the Tenth Parliament, we passed the Intergovernmental Relations Act where we created institutions like the Governors and President Summit. Within that, we also have a technical committee which will bring out issues that are actually affecting devolution. We also passed the Transition to County Government Act which the governors have violated in terms of implementing. We have the institutions of oversight, such as the Controller of Budget, the Auditor-General, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Authority. These are the institutions we need to strengthen and ensure that the governors are compelled to discharge their mandate within the law. For ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: incompetent to do so, they will certainly be shown the door by the legal process. I beseech this House, let us respect the law. Already we are playing to the hands of some of the players; the villains. They are waiting for us to make legislations that they can actually challenge in the forums, and they know where they are. Let us not give them these forums. The law requires us to operationalise and get them to perform or be knocked out and they remain non- operative. view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: For those reasons, I beg to oppose to this Bill. view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to make a contribution. I would also wish to thank the Leader of Majority Party for raising this matter which is a sensitive one given the interest the Members have shown. However, with respect to my learned colleague, this matter did not arise within the conduct of business within this House. So, we may raise it, but I am not sure that it is available for you to make a ruling on now that it is a matter that did not arise from this House, or the Senate. Nevertheless, the recent ... view
• 19 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Within our constitutional principle, the roles of both Parliament and the High Court are very clearly separated for very obvious reasons. It is that both are creatures of the Constitution and they have independent roles to play. Obviously, it is upon each of these institutions to safeguard their own independence. To this extent, if one of the institutions is encroaching onto the territory or turf of the other, the other institution has a retaliatory right to assert its own independence. The High Court is exposing itself to the problem where Kenyans can run from institutions asserting their own independence and ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. May I also join my colleagues in wishing the House a prosperous and fresh new year, after resuming the business of the House this Session. I wish to contribute to this Motion and basically support the amendments contained in this Bill. Looking at the overall spirit of these amendments, they are meant to address the issue of implementing police reforms. This is one of the mandates that the country undertook with the passage of the new Constitution. It will be recalled that when we actually passed the ... view