Robert Mbui

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 831 to 840 of 970.

• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. For the first time, I have got the Chair very clearly on this. I support him on the issue of devolved and national functions. They have to be clearly defined and also the respect for international treaties. So, I support him on that. view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I support this and I think it is a good idea because even if you look at Article 10 of the Constitution on good Governance, it talks about transparency and accountability. So, this is a record that can be kept for future reference and it is a good amendment. Unfortunately, I am talking late; I think that Clause 4 was a big mistake we have just made because we do not have that money, as a country. view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute. The previous speaker took a lot of words from me because I was also identifying the fact that our first Article recognizes that we, as a House, are extremely powerful in that all sovereign power is vested in the people and by extension, they can exercise it through us. As a result of that, we also notice that in the same Article, there is delegation of the same power to other organs. One of them is the courts. Therefore, from the beginning, it is very clear that ... view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: have seen that we have very clear roles for Members of Parliament and Judges that are enshrined in our Constitution. However, there are many times when there is interference with operations of this House. We have seen the courts attempting to define what it is that we can do and cannot do which is not acceptable. I want to say that one of the roles that Members of Parliament have is to represent the people and the other one is to make laws. In representing the people, there are a lot of things that we have to do. Many a ... view
• 6 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I do not support this amendment. The financial penalty was good enough. My problem is that when you introduce a jail term for a mistake like failing to keep a register or not lodging the register with the Registrar, it can be abused by some law enforcement officers. It can also be a way through which corruption can be introduced. So, the jail term is not a good idea. Even if the Chairperson chooses to have it, let it be as an alternative and not both of them. If someone is unable to raise the ... view
• 6 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I was waiting for the next one, but since I have got the chance, I want to say that, that makes sense. We are just making it legible for the people who read the law. I support. view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this amendment to the Constitution. I thank Hon. Ochieng for bringing it up. In his submissions, he pointed out that this Bill was presented and prepared by the late, Hon. Senator Mutula Kilonzo, who was our Secretary-General. So, I also want to thank him posthumously. Members have spoken about this issue and have said that we realise that our Constitution has problems. That is one of the reasons why we are coming up with amendments. When we were passing this Constitution, I do not know where people got figures, but ... view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: When we find that there are mistakes in the Constitution, it is important that we try and correct them. We need to be told what informed the second Tuesday of August every fifth year after the election. However, ideally from my perspective, it was also an issue of ensuring that there would be no anxiety. This is because in the previous years, whenever there were elections, people never knew the actual date. So, there was a lot of anxiety and question marks. The President actually held that date very close to his chest. So, the idea of giving a date ... view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: The December date is also a traditional date. As a country, we were used to doing elections in December. It is important to retain some of the traditions that never had a problem. As we were amending the Constitution, we were not to change everything. We needed to be careful about what to change and some things that did not have a problem did not need to be changed. Maintaining the elections in December has no problem. We have realised problems that have been stated by other speakers here; if we retain the election date of August it will affect ... view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Maybe what was not coming out clearly at the point of making this was that this new Parliament was going to be one that would make Budgets unlike the Parliaments before it. The Budget-making process takes a number of months. We know that Parliament will be dissolved 60 days before the actual date of election. That means that it will be dissolved some time in June, which is the time when the Budget is actually read. Before that, we would expect two to three months when Members will be deliberating on the issues of the Budget. Remember if it is ... view