Ronald Kiprotich Tonui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to also support this Bill and to thank hon. Keynan for coming up with it. This is because we need to take care of the interests of those former Members of Parliament. In this House we are taking care of others and we forget those former Members of Parliament. I believe this is the right Bill which is going to address those issues. Politics is really engaging. We may not be able to concentrate on anything else like investment on our behalf. It is a big challenge. In fact, if we ... view
• 26 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: House, you do not become depressed. We should not hear of former Members of Parliament becoming mad. I do not know why you decided to include a psychiatrist in the Board of Parliamentary Society of Kenya. I thought the right person to be there is a counselling psychologist and not a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist comes in at that point when you have already gone mad. We need to be assisted first at the counselling stage rather than at that stage where you might have gone overboard. So, I would urge that during the amendments stage, we bring in a counselling ... view
• 20 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. This is a constitutional Bill which has timelines. It is one of those Bills which can send us home if we do not pass them at the right time. It is here with us at the right time. I support this Bill. I also support the sentiments of the Speaker, that it would have been better to have had a whole new Bill rather than having piecemeal amendments. These amendments are rather too many. This Bill consists of more than 104 pages; it is ... view
• 20 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: consider all of them at once. But all in all, I believe that this is going to serve us well, as a country. Because of time, I know that the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has not sat down to digest these things in details. I believe that during the Committee Stage, this will be handled well and we will have several amendments, so that we can capture everyone’s aspirations in this Bill. Otherwise, I believe that whatever we have in this Bill is addressing some of the key issues in the environmental matters. We need to live in ... view
• 20 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: This Bill also addresses issues of air quality standards, which are being set. There is, for example, the standards of emissions from tanneries which pollute the environment. I am happy that those issues are being addressed by this Bill. The issue of water, which is so critical is also being addressed. In some parts of my constituency, we rely on dams and the kind of dams which we have are not good. They are not protected. We rely on run-off water for drinking. At this time and age, both the national Government and county governments need to do something to ... view
• 20 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: the required documents can be costly and time consuming; therefore, not many people will be keen to go through that process. We need the Public Complaints Committee, to which you can simply write a small letter giving certain details and they address the issues to do with the environment. I know there is a tribunal which is being formed here, but a tribunal is still a court and requires lots of preparation before you go there. Some of us are not lawyers and we may not do that. We need something at which a common man, who has a genuine ... view
• 19 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also send a message of condolence on behalf of the people of Bomet Central and on my own behalf for the sad demise of the late for Homa Bay. I have known the through politics for quite sometime. He was a man whom I really admired in the world of politics. We received the sad news of his death this morning. To the people of Homa Bay and his family, we send a message of condolences. We know they are grieving. We are together with the family. We wish them ... view
• 18 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have a point of order. I believe hon. Nyenze is misleading the House. Dr. Nzomo is not going to decide the salaries of teachers. It is this House to provide the budget and yet this House has not been providing the budget for adequate remuneration of teachers. We should not bury our head in the sand. That is misleading the House. view
• 18 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: 18 Tuesday 18th November, 2014 view
• 13 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute and support this very timely Bill. This Bill is important in two aspects. One, it is addressing very important issues in prisons, police cells and in psychiatric hospitals. It is also a constitutional Bill which can easily send me home. I do not want to go home before my time lapses. This Bill wants to promote the humane treatment of those who are deprived of liberty. I believe the police should be trained on how to treat human beings humanely. The “men in black” should also be ... view