21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
I will go to some of the issues that I noted. It is always work in progress even on Bills. I will speak about these issues, so that Members can think about them deeply because they concern us deeply. I have seen the issue of public participation in Part I, (4)(c) of the Bill. There is no better public participation than the one we do as Members of Parliament especially if we are talking about the NG-CDF. I am sure most of the Members of this House have committees under KeRRA called the constituency roads committees. If you remember in ...
view
21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
I also have a great concern because after visiting the countries that we can learn from, we have so many entities as a Government and a country. We have KeNHA, KURA, KeRRA – I am using the previous abbreviations - the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) and KRB. I tend to think that these are so many entities. Citing a case study like in Singapore, they only have one entity taking care of the land transport called the Land Transport Authority which even takes care of the railways. When we were given the previous 22 per cent allocation by ...
view
20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
view
20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise on a point of order because the Hon. Member referred to the People’s President…
view
20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
He referred to the People’s President yet the Constitution of Kenya has no such title. Kindly, clarify.
view
20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Thank you, Leader of the Majority Party for the opportunity of two minutes. I rise to support. From the outset, I am very disappointed that while we are discussing such a noble matter, the House is almost empty. While we are discussing issues like NG-CDF or even matters of our welfare, I am sure we would be much more than we are. Direct to the point, I have heard many Members quote the Northern Water Collector Tunnel. I am speaking as a Member of Parliament from Kiharu Constituency from Murang’a County. While we are ...
view
14 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. At the outset, I rise to support the list of nominees to Cabinet. First of all, I am very proud having come from Murang’a County. I know one of the former Cabinet Secretaries who has been retained in the list that did not need to go through vetting. Mr. Macharia is a very hardworking Kenyan and has been retained by His Excellency the President. First of all, I am very happy to see former politicians and former Members of Parliament having been nominated in this list. This is because some of us who were young are ...
view
14 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
actually an advantage. You can now come with freshness and handle things in a manner that they have never been handled before. I have heard most of the people and my colleagues mention Mr. Rashid as a youth of Kenya. We are very proud of the nomination of this 36-year-old. I have heard many people mention many names like Njenga Karume. This is a person whom we even refer to in schools. Actually, as the genesis of education as we know it today, Socrates never went to any school and yet we actually refer to him almost in every area ...
view
14 Feb 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I went through the Report of the Committee. I was checking at the net worth of these nominees. As a country, we have to take the issue of corruption seriously because even as we try to deliver to Kenyans in so far as the four big agendas are concerned, it can never be possible for us to render those services to Kenyans if we do not seal all the loopholes. The people who are best placed to start sealing those loopholes and show a lot of ethics in their conduct of public business are the ones whose names ...
view
13 Dec 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. Like many cash crop industries in Kenya, one of the major issues we have in terms of the undoing are the brokers in between from the farmer to the point where the farmer receives the money. Coming from an area where we have coffee as a cash crop, I believe most of the problems that bedevil any other cash crop industry cuts across all the others. The Motion before us today dealing with the sugar industry is very timely and, as the members from those sides, I support ...
view