Robert Mbui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: As I finish because of the interest of many Members, the EACC has failed this country. This is because the EACC was already aware that there was such a scam that was happening and they delayed to act and out of that, Kshs1.5 billion was lost. When I look at the recommendations that the Committee has made saying that EACC should be held liable… I do not know how strongly we can word that part for EACC, so that we say they should be thrown into jail and keys thrown away. This is incredible. It is the Commission that has ... view
• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I thank you. view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. It is good because you have realised that I am a serious Member who does not put his card in the intervention slot and disappear. view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: I want to declare that I am a Member of the Committee on Delegated Legislation which has the mandate to ensure that all regulations made in this country by the bodies that are allowed to make them conform to the Statutory Instruments Act. I want to thank the Committee Members for the work which they did very seriously under the able leadership of our Chair, Hon. Gladys Boss Shollei, the Vice Chair and a very active secretariat. This Committee faces several challenges. There are two things which I have noted about regulations that come to this House. Remember that the ... view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: On the issue of timely avoidance, you notice that the Statutory Instruments Act has set a certain amount of time within which the Committee must receive the regulations, go through them and then give a report to the House. Normally, the report would be to annul or accept a regulation in its entirety because the Committee has no jurisdiction to make any amendments. I have noted severally that when the House is about to go for recess, that is when some of the regulations are brought to the House. Because of the fact that there is a certain period of ... view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: The other one is legislation by the people who are given that mandate to make regulations. You have seen that the CS is given an opportunity to make regulations many times, but he or she makes those ones that go outside the principal Act which he or she is supposed to follow. These Community Land Regulations are basically one of those ones that go against the Statutory Instruments Act. Our able Chair has pointed out where we have a problem in the two sections. Regulations 23 and 24 talk about the exploration of natural resources within the community land. The ... view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: do not think the CS has any ability to come and create new things because they will be going beyond the mandate that is given under this Act. The second part is that the regulations should not make some unusual and unexpected use of the powers conferred to it by the Constitution or the Act. In this case, you notice that the Ministry of Lands is trying to create regulations to do with issues of natural resources. These are things that could be handled under the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining and Ministry of Environment and Forestry. To be honest, ... view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I am a Member of this hardworking Committee that has been praised a lot. I rise to support the decision by this Committee to annul these regulations that were brought to this House by the Senate. Before I mention my points, I support with a heavy heart when I listened to my Chair and the seconder standing up to say that this Committee is made up of senior lawyers who have reputations to guard. I begin to wonder whether I am in the wrong committee because I am not a lawyer. view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: It is important that even our input in committees is recognised because we play a role and were part of this journey all the way from the beginning. The purpose of this Senate Monitoring and Evaluation Regulations is to give money to Senators so that they can purport to do monitoring and evaluation of county governments. This is about Kshs2million a month to the Senator to go around and look at what the governor is doing. This is supposed to be coming from a common kitty of PSC, a kitty which is for the whole of Parliament including the National ... view
• 21 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: When all is said and done, it is important to compare the responsibilities of this National Assembly and the Senate. The Constitution says that county governments will be given a minimum of 15 per cent of the revenue. We have done very well and gone beyond 15 per cent but we are still not yet even near 50 per cent. Therefore, the National Assembly is obviously going to oversee the difference which is 85 per cent. It is interesting that the Senators felt that it is important for them to have the funds to evaluate and check the governors despite ... view