Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

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• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Deputy Speaker. I wish to take this opportunity to register my thanks for the Speech of the President and to congratulate him for being bold. It is when the ship is captained in times of turbulence that you can tell you have a good captain. This country has a lot of turbulence; turbulence in terms of tribalism and turbulence especially because of corruption. You just need to look at how turbulent the country has become since the Report was tabled. For the President to have captained this ship so far, we will say a lot of thanks to ... view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: country can feel that economy growing. It is still sad that 34 percent of Kenyans are living below the poverty line. So, even if the economy is growing at 6 percent, the woman who was poor last year is still poor this year and that is not acceptable. I support the Report, especially with regard to Government programmes. A lot has been said about electricity. Recently, when we met the Commissioners of the Interim Electoral and Boundary Commission (IEBC), they proposed to the Committee the idea of using dry cells in the 2017 elections. The members of the Committee almost ... view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: When you look at the question of roads, again, I support the infrastructure development that is going on. I regret very much that the Cabinet Secretary in charge of roads has been named in the Report. It is extremely regrettable because the things that he has been able to do on roads, ports, airports, the (LAPSSET) and so on are all very commendable. On the apology and the Kshs10billion fund, it is very commendable for a country to issue an apology for things that have happened in the past. view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I spent a lot of time with victims before I joined this House. As somebody who spent time with victims, I cannot express my gratitude more in terms of what the fund will mean. There are many people who lost their lives during post- election violence; many of them were bread-winners. Those families have to be taken care of. There are many people who got diseases and were affected by different elements. The compensation to the post-election violence victims will come in very handy. I come from Nyeri County and so, I am a bit worried whether ... view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Lastly, hon. Deputy Speaker, is the big question of corruption. I support what the President has done in the list. It is a completely imperfect process. However, we had to start from somewhere. Everybody in this country has been telling the President to take action. He has taken action. It may not be the action we expected, but he has taken action. What we can do, as a House, is to support that process. We need to make sure that from now on, we have a sieving process. It is painful when you are not corrupt to be told that ... view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Allow me to start by regretting that yesterday this House debated a Motion that was not helpful to Kenyans. The House was happy to spend three hours on the Censure Motion but when it comes to the Division of Revenue Bill, there are concerns that we have to move faster. It is time this House put as much time as is required on matters that are important to Kenyans. There is no matter that is as important as devolution to Kenyans right now. As we discuss the Division of Revenue Bill today, we celebrate, as the ... view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: we would require that they follow the Public Finance Management Act and use the 70 to 30 ratio, which is what the national Government is using. Seventy per cent recurrent and 30 per cent development for counties is not good enough. What will be good enough for the counties is a 50 to 50 ratio. As we go to election of governors, it will be important for us to look for governors who are going to spend a lot of their money on development and less money on recurrent. Employment at the county-level has reached a crisis level. We now ... view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: have given to the counties, and with the conditional allocations that the counties are going to get; that this House considers giving the counties even more conditional allocations. In the United States of America, where they have a federal government system, they give a lot more of their funding in conditional terms. Money for education is given as conditional allocation for, say early childhood education. We are in a country where we have abandoned early childhood education. The reason as to why our education system is suffering is because we have stopped paying attention to the stages of children development, ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Just to add my voice to this two- third gender debate, we have a country of men and women that must work together to define their destiny and to move forward. This country must have both men and women in leadership. The two-thirds gender rule is not about women replacing men. It is about men and women of our country moving forward. If you look at Article 100, the duty of this Parliament is to pass a legislation that will be used in 2017. We are not required by this Constitution in this House to meet ... view