Robert Mbui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The most important thing to ask ourselves is where we are. Apparently, the Bill was proposed by Hon. Chris Wamalwa and it was forwarded to the relevant Committee which carried out public participation. Apparently, 80 per cent of Kenyans from the 47 counties believe that the date we have in our Constitution is not good and they propose to change it to December. During public participation, major stakeholders like the Kenya National Examinations Council, the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Kenya National Union of Teachers, Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) and others were of the opinion that it makes sense to change the date. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I support the Bill on the basis that we have to learn to listen to our people because we are here to represent them. If they seem to believe that one date is better than another, then it is our responsibility to support them. Previously, I was opposed to the change of the election date. It was brought in the 11th Parliament by Hon. David Ochieng’. I was one of the very few Members of this House that opposed it. We almost reached the threshold of two-thirds majority. We missed it by six people. I was one of the six ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I have heard arguments from our colleagues saying that August date is bad because we have bad roads because of heavy rains during that month. The solution to that is not to fight the date but to deal with the roads. That is why we are here. We pass budgets to fix the roads so that we can operate throughout the year. We cannot say that we cannot hold an election at a certain time because our roads are not good. We have heard an argument that it is unconstitutional. I believe that for the Bill to be presented to ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: When the Constitution was passed in 2010, some people said that 20 per cent of it is bad. This is one of those few things. There is a lot of talk about a referendum in the offing. Instead of putting a thousand questions in a referendum, let us remove those basic ones like this one on dates. Let us deal with it as a House and change the dates so that the number of questions in that referendum are reduced. The more questions we have the more reason people will find an opportunity to oppose it and then we have ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The calendar begins in January and ends in December. It will be very perfect for us to have an election in December and then start our term in January and finish five years later in December and the next cycle starts in January and ends in December. It would look very natural and nice. However, when we finish a term in the middle of the year, there are several things that will not work out. One, of course, it has been said over and over by Members, is the school calendar. There are arguments that the school calendar will not ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: On the budgetary cycle, we have to read our Budget together with our partner states within the East African Community. It is important to note that there is a date specified in law within the East African Community countries. The Budget is supposed to be read at the same time. It is, in my opinion, a very nasty time for this Assembly when all of us are looking at an election in June, July and August as we are looking at the Budget. It is very complicated. It is easier to push the elections so that by the time we ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Cabinet Secretary and addressing issues to do with it, we are not at the same time figuring out how we will get re-elected or vie for other offices. I support this change. Finally, let me say something about the availability of voters where I come from. I want to be very honest. My constituency is close to the city. Unfortunately, if you have elections in August, not everybody finds their way back home because it is a time when most people are still at work, but when you push it to December and the period specified which is third week ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. That was a very powerful presentation from the Deputy Whip of the Majority Party. It is important that we all realise that the future of this country is with the youth. It is our responsibility as Members to also show direction and probably try and put these things into action. From the presentation by Hon. Oluoch, we are realising that 75 per cent of this nation is composed of people aged below 35 years. His request financially is only 5 per cent. When you do that mathematics, it is ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: to 41.25 per cent of the citizenry of this country being unemployed. That is obviously a national disaster. I am happy about my colleague, Hon. Cecily, who has talked about there being many funds. It is true. We have the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and the Uwezo Fund which basically deal with youth and women groups. We also have the National Government Affirmative Action Fund. They are not enough. I have tried to figure out this and asked myself what the problem we are facing is. I have noticed a few problems concerning our youth since I was elected. The ... view