Robert Mbui

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 791 to 800 of 970.

• 25 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Therefore, your humble Petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing: (i) investigates reasons for the inordinate delay by KeRRA to rebuild the Kathiani- Kangundo Bridge, yet emergency funds had been set aside to mitigate El-Nino - related disasters such as destruction of roads and bridges by rains; and, (ii) recommends immediate re-construction of the bridge with a view of restoring economic activities and interactions between the two regions back to normalcy. And your Petitioners will ever pray. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I do approve and agree with the Committee on the said amendment. I want to urge the House to be keen because I just noticed an error which happened. I was the one who shouted in support of the National Assembly Members who were supporting something they did not agree with. view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: THAT, Clause 14 of the Bill be amended in subclause (1) by inserting the words “and mitigation against” immediately after the words “adaptation to” appearing in paragraph (a). view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. My concern is that when you look at the changes made in Clause 3 and then Clause 4, I see the need to have the county executive committee in Clause 4 because in Clause 3, we have put in youth polytechnics and ECD centres. On the basis of the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill, I do not know why we are mixing the county and national Government functions. We could have had a Bill that has only national Government functions, which is clearly articulated by the County Education Board and another separate one for the ... view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Yes, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute. I support this amendment. It is important because we go through this every year. When the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination results are announced at the end of every year, many of the students who get Form One placements in national schools are from poor families. I support the amendment, so that we can look for money. Unfortunately, the CDF is not one of the stakeholders that have been listed in this Bill yet most of the national Government CDF monies go to education. ... view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: No, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chair. I am not. I am not disagreeing, but I just want to highlight something. A Committee of the whole House in the morning was in agreement with the Chair of the Departmental Committee in rejecting the Senate proposal, but every one of us said that we agreed with the Chairperson. So, when it came to voting, people agreed instead of rejecting. We need to be careful that if you are rejecting, you say that you oppose as opposed to saying that you agree with the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee yet the amendment is not ... view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to support this Motion on the approval of the mediated version of the National Drought Management Authority Bill. I come from one of the drought-prone areas. I thank the Mediation Committee for coming up with an agreement. It is not always that every time there is mediation we will always come to an agreement. A time might come when we might have a problem of a failed mediation. So, every time mediation between the National Assembly and the Senate succeeds, it is important for all of us to applaud the efforts, so ... view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Kenya is one of the developing nations. In such a nation, there are many problems that are faced by the people. It is of utmost importance to look for solutions for the welfare of our people. In 2010, one of the main attractions of the new Constitution was devolution. Real devolution had started in 2003 when the CDF Act was enacted. So, the citizens of this country believed that when we devolve funds through the counties, we were going to get a bigger and The electronic version of the ... view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: better share of the resources of this nation, Kenya would develop at a faster rate and their problems would be solved. Two or three years after devolution, within the current system of operation, when you look at the amount that is allocated to Machakos County and share it fairly to the eight sub-counties, approximately Kshs2.2 billion has been set aside for my constituency. However, from 2003, only Kshs700 million has been allocated. You can see the effect of Kshs700 million, but you cannot see, at all, the effect of the Kshs2.2 billion. The CDF has done tremendously well and it ... view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the new Bill on CDF that we are coming up with. One of the reasons is that it solves the problem of the court. We are now able to only undertake national government functions. However, I have an issue with the role of the Member of Parliament in this new Bill. As the people’s representative, I understand that we do not need to be the implementers of CDF, but there are certain obvious things that we need to be involved in. Being involved is not implementing. One of the things that we should be ... view