Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

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• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: transparency and the same applies to the Quran and Prophet Mohammed. Information, openness, truth and justice are all important concepts in our religion. On economics, foreign direct investments in countries with access to information are higher. In the East African region, we continue to compete with Rwanda. I would like to share with the House that I had a hand in drafting and passage of Rwandan Bill on Access to Information. Since the Rwandan Government has access to information law we find that a fair amount of foreign direct investments that should come to Kenya as the regional business hub, ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: access the county budget, a document that should ideally be available to the public. I fear for the counties. I am a county Member of Parliament. We also have the Governor and the Senator. I therefore, use creative methods to get the budget. I wonder what is happening to the citizens if I have to use creative methods to get a copy of the county budget! So, documents such as the county budget, expenditure, development plans, programmes and achievements should be available to the citizens in the counties. We had two main reasons of setting up county governments. One was ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Congress (ANC) understood that a good reason why apartheid was very difficult to defeat was because the apartheid Government did not release information to the black people of South Africa. So, when ANC took over power, a law on access to information was one of the main laws that the Government then enacted. Nigeria, Ethiopia, Liberia and Rwanda have now passed access to information laws. Let me clarify to this House early enough that national security is protected. Information around national security is exempt information. Nobody would want to interfere with national security programmes, plans and ideas. However, it is ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. I will just wind up, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Bill is well drafted. The provisions of this Bill are well done. The Bill is a product of many years of consensus and deliberations among stakeholders, including the media, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, academic institutions, private sector, civil society and Government leaders. A lot of contributions have been made. The Bill makes clear separation between information that is available and information that is not available for release, what is called exempt information in Clause 6. Information relating to privacy of individuals cannot be released. Unwarranted ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker. I beg to move:- THAT, the Government Proceedings (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.10 of 2014) be now read a Second Time. The Bill seeks to amend Section 21 of the Government Proceedings Act by inserting a new sub-section 5 which reads as follows:- “This Section shall, with necessary modifications, apply to any civil proceedings by or against a county government or in any proceedings in connection with any arbitration in which a county government is a party”. By seeking to amend Section 21, the Bill was introduced in the Senate by Hon. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr, the Senator for ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: order. The rationale is that that property is crucial for the delivery of common services to the people. In the event of successful litigation, one is allowed to execute and sell off such property with a natural person or a company. But in the event of Government, there is a mechanism provided for in the current Section 21 which allows, first, for the debt to be verified and any payment to be properly budgeted for. Otherwise, Government departments would never be able to transact business. If we look at the levels of corruption that we have, this is one area ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: We move the House to agree with the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee that, indeed, the Government Proceedings (Amendments) Bill as passed by the Senate, be passed in the same manner by this National Assembly. I call Hon. Munuve, who sits in the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee and who today, has had occasion to represent me at the Supreme Court’s Open Day with the Chief Justice because I am now standing in for the Chairman, to again stand in for the Vice-Chair and to second this Bill. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move. view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Members for their support to this Bill and for the contributions that they have made. Hon. Speaker, it is, indeed, good as members have agreed to protect Government properties and Government Funds, both at the national and county levels. We will be urging - as we have been asking the Attorney-General - that funds be budgeted for to cover judgment debtors. A kitty should be established in all the line ministries, upon ascertainment and certification of judgment debtors to pay judgment debtors. We are not saying that Government cannot pay the ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: the House Business Committee to bring back this Bill so that the Third Reading can proceed quickly and we make sure that this Bill becomes law as soon as possible. The message by Hon. Members to county governments on overdrafts and borrowing needs to be captured clearly. The National Assembly is not giving a license to county government to borrow money or take overdrafts. What we are doing is to protect Government resources by asking our governors to act in accordance with the law in matters funds. The Assembly will be looking at the Appropriations-in-Aid because our governors continue to ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. As I thank the Members for contribution, I agree with you that some Members have approached me for a minute each. Therefore, I want to give one minute each to the following. Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo- Mabona, the Vice-Chair of the Committee; Hon. Kiptanui; Hon. Lelelit; Hon. Shakeel Shabir; Hon. (Ms.) Khamisi and Hon. Bishop Mutua. That totals of six minutes. view