Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also thank the Leader of Majority Party for the one minute and congratulate him for bringing this Bill. It sets a new precedent for our country. It is in very few countries that values are legislated upon. In 2010, we passed a new Constitution; we have continued to put values and morality in our laws. This law is looking for new Kenyans who will work for our country with patriotism; these words are in the law. I celebrate this Bill very much because it has a lot of useful provisions for public officers. ... view
• 12 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also thank the Leader of Majority Party for the one minute and congratulate him for bringing this Bill. It sets a new precedent for our country. It is in very few countries that values are legislated upon. In 2010, we passed a new Constitution; we have continued to put values and morality in our laws. This law is looking for new Kenyans who will work for our country with patriotism; these words are in the law. I celebrate this Bill very much because it has a lot of useful provisions for public officers. ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am happy to support this Motion and to congratulate the Committee led by my friend, hon. Kajuju. I congratulate them for having met many stakeholders. They spent a lot of time analyzing what the stakeholders said. I think the Committee has given us a good report. Hon. Chris Wamalwa had earlier submitted that the universities were not consulted. He only mentioned the University of Nairobi. I want to mention that Karatina University, Dedan Kimathi University and many others were not consulted. The strength of a report is not consultation with the universities; rather ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: competence. On the part of CBK, to the extent that the national Treasury spent a lot of time on this Report, we can only be happy as the National Assembly to take their views. I am also happy to note that this Report is coming at the time when our President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is the Chairman of the EAC. I am also happy that Ms. Kandie, the Cabinet Secretary, is also the Chairperson of the Ministers Council. This is a good legacy that at the time they are leading the EAC the Kenya National Assembly has a chance to ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, so we still have a long time to take care of all the concerns that hon. Members like hon. Wakhungu were raising, to prepare the country. We have a whole ten years to continue considering whether this is a good decision. But as far as looking forward is concerned; as far as going international is concerned, I think it is important that today the National Assembly agrees that it is indeed right to adopt the report of the Committee on the establishment of the East African Community Monetary Union. Ten years we will still have time ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: On the benefits, I think it is important to look at the question of integration in the EAC. If we look at what the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been able to do, we still have a long way to go. The boundaries in our EA countries continue to exist. Every time I travel to West Africa, I am happy to marvel at what they have created in ECOWAS. The boundaries in ECOWAS have collapsed. The countries in ECOWAS feel a lot more united. The members of ECOWAS even when we go to international meetings and they ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: In terms of Kenya, we feel a bit like the United Kingdom in the discussions on the European Union. Always, the country that is moving forward has the tendency to think that it is going to lose when there is integration and that is how some of our colleagues are feeling; that because we have the bigger economy of all the countries of EAC that we are the ones who stand to lose; that it is our Kenya Shilling that stands to lose. Nothing The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: could be further from the truth. When you go to the UK, it is very painful to use the GB Pound. The rest of us in the world are feeling the pain of using the GB Pound when the rest of the countries in the EU have moved to the Euro. When you use Euros, those of us who travel, you feel very nice. The conversion rate of the Euro is bearable. When you go to the UK, the conversion of the GB Pound is killing. In fact, some of the people who go for medical treatment there have been ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: There is no need of feeling superior or feeling like our history is the best. I would not want a situation in which Kenya compares itself to what the UK continues to do in the EU. Very soon, as you know, the House of Commons, is going to be debating the question of whether the UK is going to remain a member of the EU. I am one of those who are hoping that the UK is going to chose to be a member of the EU. In the same strength, Kenya is a strong economy in EA but it ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: So those kinds of stories are what we have even in our borders for the people on the Ugandan border and the people of the Tanzanian border. It would be useful if they use the same currency, if we can become the same people. I say this aware of our questions of tribalism. The day that we allow ourselves to have a bigger country; to have a bigger geography; to have a bigger terrain to think about, is the day that our tribal questions stop to become as vexing as they are becoming in our country. In my own part ... view