Robert Mbui

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 951 to 960 of 970.

• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to add my voice to this exposition of public policy contained in the Address by the President to Parliament. view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: First and foremost, I want to say that the President did two things that highly impressed me. The first one was that he followed Article 132 of the Constitution in presenting the Address which he has to present to this House every year. view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Secondly, when he started his Address, he said that he would uphold national values and principles of governance. That is also contained in Article 10. That is what we call very good first impression. He went to the real speech and raised several issues. The first issue I want to touch on is with regard to devolution. In my opinion, devolution has been hampered by the Jubilee Administration. Historically, we are all aware that one of the two principals strongly did not want the new Constitution in 2010. He campaigned against it in the whole country. I strongly feel that ... view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: I am saying this because we have been told that there was a very quick move to devolve all functions which could have been done in a longer period. The issue was that if you do it very first and people are not prepared then the public of this country would wake up and say that devolution has failed. Therefore, we will be able to kick out these governors and kill devolution. I think that is probably part of the intention. view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: The other issue is that we have all seen Government interference. The central Government has interfered with devolution because up to now we still have County Commissioners and we wonder what their work is. This is because there are governors who run counties. However, the County Commissioners sit there and read newspapers every day. They really do not have a defined role. view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: The Constitution said that we also devolve the Provincial Administration in three years. That is not being done as it should. I believe that majority of the functions of the central Government to devolve--- view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: I do not know whether what we did was done properly or it was negligence. This is because when we devolve almost 80 per cent of the functions and then we come to the House and say that we are very proud because--- view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will just mention one because I do not have to mention many. Health functions were devolved very first. As a result, our doctors are constantly on strike. Many of them have quit because the structures were not put in place to contain them. view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I know there is a lot of stress in this House with regard to the issue of security. There is also comic relief that Members are participating but I did not expect the same from the Head of State. This is because when he talked about the risks and the terrorism that this country is under, he quickly mentioned that the solution to one of them is embracing the Nyumba Kumi initiative. I look at my Kathiani Constituency where we have known our neighbours from time immemorial and I wonder how knowing my next ten neighbours ... view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to finish by saying that there is one issue that touched me and that was the issue where the Head of State talked about the reasons why we cannot develop as fast as we should. He said that the problem has gone back three decades. I thought that he is very unfair when in that office to start accusing his predecessors. view