Bishop Robert Mutemi Mutua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to support the amendment because it makes it very clear by anchoring it in Chapter Six of the Constitution. That becomes the yardstick for measuring qualification of a particular person. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for those who are saying I have just walked, let me tell them that I was here before many of you. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I want to support this Motion with a few points. If in this country we are serious about addressing the issues of inequalities, then we have to go this way. In this country, we have marginalized regions, communities and families. This particular Bill is important because it is going to enable us to address some issues that have always gone unnoticed. For example, when we talk about the arid and semi-arid areas, I want to say in this House that the worst place to be is in a semi-arid area because everything becomes semi. As we talk today, the semi-arid ... view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: So, this is the first time that this House has an opportunity to look keenly into those regions, areas and sections within our society which are marginalized and address them accordingly. Whether they are in central, northern or eastern; we need to go deeper than to just say a region. Within some regions, there are communities that have been marginalized. So, this fund is supposed to go down until it identifies the people who have been disadvantaged. This is quite important and unless we do that, we will continue having inequalities within some regions going unnoticed. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this issue can be seen when you look at issues like education. There are some regions in this country whose education standards are so low and it is because of marginalization. We have come to realize that we are talking about a very serious issue. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to inform the hon. Member that we are adding value to this Bill. We are not just discussing it. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you. I hope I can be given time to say what I want to say and people can understand what I am saying because this Bill--- I am talking the way I am talking because I am passionate. I am a victim of this marginalization. Those who have never tasted what marginalization is all about cannot understand the seriousness of this Bill because this Bill is life and death to some of the regions of this country where some people have been left out and they can be easily ignored and nobody thinks that there ... view
• 18 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. As much as I would like to support this amendment, I would like to raise a concern. The issue of capacity building has remained the ground for misappropriation. Therefore, I have concern when we are not very clear on who will do the capacity building, given the fact that we have already removed the National Youth Council from the Committee. However, I support this Regulation for the simple reason of moving forward. But I would like to see us revisit the capacity building issue very soon. view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to make two observations. One, right from the beginning when the issue of International Criminal Court was discussed in Kenya, people addressed it very casually. We are still behaving very casually when dealing with the issue. We are forgetting that people are affected and that this nation needs a healing a process. Hon. Deputy Speaker, my appeal to hon. Members is to begin taking this issue a little bit more cautiously than we are doing, so that we do not just look like we are throwing statements right, left and centre, without knowing ... view
• 7 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this great opportunity to contribute to this important report. Yesterday, I was very keen to see the passion of the people that are in this House – the hon. Members – to uphold the rule of law and particularly defend the Constitution. view