Robinson Njeru Githae

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will transmit the information to the Minister for Local Government, so that he can issue a Ministerial Statement. Since this is not a very difficult issue, I would say he will do it on Thursday, this week. view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also want to oppose that proposal by hon. Olago. view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion on Mau. Kenyans will recall that 20 years ago, one Prof. Wangari Maathai went round this country telling Kenyans that in the next 20 years, we were going to pay dearly for mismanaging our forests, cutting down trees, polluting our rivers and view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to persuade you to rule that this matter is sub judice, and that it should not be discussed by this House. To do that, I will pose several questions. If the answer to any of those questions is “yes”, then this matter is sub judice, and it should not be discussed by this House. One thing, you should ask yourself is if discussion of this matter is likely to prejudice a fair hearing, view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir to me, the answer is “yes”. If you had answered that question in the positive, we would not have needed to go further. However, I will go to the next question. Is it the role of Parliament to interpret laws? view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: No! It cannot be. It is the role of the Judiciary to interpret laws once a dispute has arisen. Clearly, a dispute has risen. The third question is, what are courts for? They are to resolve disputes. Clearly, this is a dispute that has arisen. The matter is already in court, and it has been set for hearing next week on Wednesday. Surely, we can wait for one week. Nothing much will view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Githae, I had no intention of being disrespectful to my colleagues. Maybe, the right words would have been “to keep quiet” under the oath of secrecy. view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have withdrawn the words “shut up”, apologised and substituted therefor, the words “keep quiet”. view
• 18 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important vote. First, let me take this opportunity to thank and commend the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and members of staff, led by the Permanent Secretary for a job well done. I think this is one of the best Budgets that have been read in this House. Why am I saying this? If you look at the main thrust of the Budget, you will see that it was an economic self-reliance Budget. In other words, he wanted to make constituencies to be ... view
• 18 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to commend the staff under the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, particularly the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) under the Commissioner-General. We have seen rapid increase of total revenue collection from about Kshs106 billion to Kshs700 billion. This is commendable. I urge him to go a step further and start getting tax clearances. Before anyone is employed or vies for a parliamentary or a civic seat, he should get a tax clearance from the KRA. He should also make it compulsory for every Kenyan to have a bank account. He should ... view