Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also stand to support the Bill by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on EACC. view
• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: When we were looking at the petition for the removal of the Commissioners, the Chairperson then, Mr. Matemu and the Vice-Chair at that time, Ms. Irene Keino, the level of infighting in that Commission surprised the Committee. view
• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we found a Commission in which the members of the secretariat and the Commissioners would wake up to do nothing but fight each other. To avoid this level of infighting that we found in that Commission, we recommend part-time commissioners. Our view is that part-time commissioners will help to navigate the fight against corruption much better than what we have in full time commissioners. view
• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: We have all spoken about the question of having a board and a secretariat and separating their roles. I have had the pleasure of working as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with a very good board. You cannot, as a CEO, live with your board every day. It would drive you insane as a CEO; that every morning you wake up, your chairperson is there. Every afternoon, your chairperson is there and every evening your chairperson is there. He tells you in the morning to do this and five minutes after, you meet in the corridor. It is not acceptable ... view
• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: The CEO and secretariat must receive guidance, policy direction and oversight from the board but not every day. Once in a month is about as much as they can take on this process. What we are recommending as a Committee is the re-designing of the Commission. In this new design, the board which is the commissioners and the Chairperson would undertake their role of oversight and policy direction and the secretariat led by the CEO would then be left to implement the views of the board day by day. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Looking at the petition, it occurred to us that there might be issues with the secretariat as constituted. We think that the first task of the new commissioners will be to vet the secretariat that exists at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). They have to vet the CEO, the Deputy CEO and the investigators. Those who meet the bill will then be allowed to operate under the EACC. view
• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: The other reason why we propose and support part-time commissioners is to avoid job seekers. We are in a country where commissioners have become rotational. They serve in the EACC; rotate to the National Land Commission; rotate to the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission; rotate to the IEBC and rotate to the Commission on Administrative Justice. We did not create commissions so that commissioners can rotate from one commission to the other. We want to avoid a scenario of job seekers. If you are a Kenyan and want to assist the country in the fight against corruption, we think you ... view
• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: We also found three commissioners to be a very small number. In the petition, two Commissioners were enough to make decisions. All you needed to do was to collude and make all decisions that you needed. A number of five, we think, will do better justice in terms of quorum for the Commission and in moving forward the agenda of the Commission. We think five Commissioners is a difficult number to collude with. Three was far too few for quorum and even for the business that the Commission has to continue with. view
• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: There has been a debate in the Committee about appointing a full time Chairperson. That debate has received quite a fair consideration, but if you look at where the Commission needs to go and look at comparative commissions in our continent, especially Nigeria, you actually find that the person of the chair we are looking for would not be a full time person. The Chairperson we are looking for is a person of integrity; somebody who has served; somebody who will move the public with them and somebody who when he writes a letter to citizens, they know that the ... view
• 7 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Nigeria, Kenya and Pakistan compete on the list of transparency index, on the country with the highest levels of corruption. It is a very sad scenario for any country, ours included. One time, Nigeria had beaten Kenya to the list. When Kenya asked how Nigeria had done it, they said “you really must know that we also speak to the people who compile the list.” That is how bad our corruption has become that we are able to talk to those compiling the list and discuss with them what position they will put us. So, those people who provide the ... view