Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 881 to 890 of 2249.

• 2 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to second the Bill moved by my colleague, the Minister for Finance on the retirement benefits of the Deputy President and the Designated State Officers. Again, I would like to remind the House that when I first proposed the idea of giving retirement benefits to the President in 1998, there was an avalanche of opposition to the idea because people were focusing on the then President for reasons that were both sentimental and real. However, Parliament, in its wisdom and the Attorney-General having taken over my Bill passed it into law and today ... view
• 2 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. There are two things that I want to raise. view
• 2 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, after that, something has been done. view
• 2 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Bill. I want to make one or two points for further clarity on the Bill. First, it must be understood that the centerpiece of this Constitution is devolution. However, devolution must not be understood to mean that devolved government is completely divorced from the Central Government. That, indeed, the symbiotic relationship between devolved governments and the National Government view
• 27 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to second this Bill being proposed by my colleague, the Minister for Finance. The only thing I would like to say is that this is a very timely amendment given, as the Minister said, I remember I was a member of the Opposition when I proposed the Presidential Retirement Benefits Bill. I was really thrashed by the media, the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) and everybody else that it was extravagant and it should not be done. Eventually, the Attorney-General took over my Bill and it was passed in this House in the late ... view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Motion and the proposal for Mr. Kimaiyo to be the Inspector-General of Police during the new dispensation under the new Constitution. When I saw the list of the people who were being considered for this position, the only person I knew reasonably well was Mr. Kimaiyo. I got to know Mr. Kimaiyo reasonably well during the post-election violence of the year 2008. He was the then Deputy Commissioner of Police. As you know, there were many problems that we faced. I found Mr. Kimaiyo, as my friend Mr. Cheruiyot ... view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I only want to remind Mr. Ethuro that the words “who are we?” is just an English expression. It does not derogate the House in any way. view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Bill. I am supporting this Bill with one very important cautionary remark. One, we must understand that county governments will inherit all kinds of local authorities under them. You must understand that at the moment in my county, for example, there are about six districts, each one of which has had a local authority collecting revenue and expending it, owing assets and incuring liabilities. So, these counties will have a tremendous job to do. How do you collectivise what these different local authorities have been doing into one entity? I ... view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I was the Chairman of the Public Investments Committee (PIC) in the mid 90s, this occurred to me especially where we had public corporations owing or being owed money by county authorities. When we view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to make a very short contribution in supporting the Technical and Vocational Training and Educational Bill. One of the things I want to comment my colleague for is for seeing technical and vocational training in what I call modern terms. For quite some time, we have thought of vocational training in terms of purely village polytechnics. We thought of village polytechnics as training people to involve themselves in some very basic works of being carpenters, weavers of baskets or tailors. We believed that in every village polytechnics, there were only a few ... view