Richard Maore Maoka

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the moment to say a few words about this Bill. First, I would like to state that it is a momentous moment for this House to actually join hands with Hon. Millie Odhiambo in putting this issue into legislation. We need to remember that you can have the ideas that you do not concretise into legislation. That is why we need to thank her for putting the effort, time, passion and commitment to ensure that we have this law in our statutes. On the issue of barrenness, for those of us who are ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: I have just mentioned that to relate it to our traditional beliefs. They stigmatise barrenness or lack of children and then blame it on woman. Thanks to modern science. It has established that the majority of barrenness in the family is actually from the man. It is possible, with this Bill, that there are scientific methods of enhancing the chances of couples being able to have children. So, as we deliberate on this piece of legislation, we must be more emphatic about the limits and the sanctions involved that we are about to introduce and also emphasise that in our ... view
• 11 May 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I also want to record my thanks to your ruling. I also want to remind you the historic incident where you agree with your colleagues and something happens where Members can turn against what you have agreed. Then in that fury, you can puke words like the ones we heard here. In 1976, in the House of Commons, the then “Tyson of apes” Michael Heseltine agreed on a pairing kind of arrangement during a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard ... view
• 11 May 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Act was enacted in this House for the first time in 1994. Between then and now, a lot of things have happened, including the new law that came to give a lot of rights to narcotics users. The right time to amend that Act is now. The timing should also include addressing something about the Schedule. If you noticed, over the last few years, several countries have got the chance to get into the psychotropic substances Act whereby cannabis sativa or bhang is classified as a serious narcotic. It ... view
• 11 May 2021 in National Assembly: We are talking at a time when not even Members of Parliament are privileged anymore. In those days, we could import a car duty free. The Constitution changed that and everybody has to pay tax. That time, the President was above the law but after the 2010 Constitution he has immunity on a few items while in office. What we are talking about is that when we enforce some laws specifically this type of law that involves trade in illegal substances, we need to have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I appreciate the moment to plead with the House that when we are given time and want to plead an addition, it is a good idea. Very quickly, it is good to respond… view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, can I have my time starting now without being disrupted by this? Thank you. view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: We are facing very unfortunate times in this country to the effect that we have leaders who have chosen the path of lies, distraction of the country, the path of misleading and the path of conniving. If you can recall about the handshake, it came to cool down this country. It came to help this country. It came to save this country. The unfortunate bit is that a part of that Government did not recognise the handshake as a way of healing the country, but saw the handshake as a way of being denied power. If you listen to the ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the politics in this Bill are the ones we are addressing. The ones who are fighting are doing it for politics. If you hear about coffee, you hear about the prices of maize, you hear about the prices of tea, and you hear about Coronavirus... People are saying this is not the time and this is about the economy. Yes, it is about the economy. The economy is being destroyed by corruption. The economy is being addressed in the BBI. If you look at the people who have been disparaging the Bill, they are actually borrow-headed cowards. ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: about the Bill, anybody coming thereafter is just repetition. So, what we need to understand is that when we are moving a country forward, there are those who do not feel comfortable when the country is being run well. For this reason, when they are cowards and do not want to vote no, they do not want to even hear people who are proposing and talking sensible things. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have heard somebody saying that every county should have been given a seat in the BBI. If you follow that pattern, this is what is being cured in ... view