Samuel Kamunye Gichigi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 761 to 770 of 830.

• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, on behalf of the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, since this House has not been able to mount the necessary numbers, we are forced to withdraw those particular amendments, but the errors have been cited. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, we are, therefore, withdrawing the amendments. view
• 31 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I am looking at the Constitution and seeing that it is very categorical that the role of the Senate is to represent the counties and to serve and protect the interest of county governments; I am seeing a serious challenge in any particular county having interests outside the boundaries of this country. I think, perhaps, we need to think of creating a parliament for the counties, so that Senators can be sent to something like that, within the country. The National Assembly is supposed to deal with the national organs of this Government. It has power even ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I come from an area that has a huge population that is not able to support the cost of education past the primary school level. In fact, in Kipipiri, you find that the transition rate, even of going to second school is just about 49 per cent. This means that half the pupils who sit for primary school examination at Standard Eight do not go anywhere. We are working very hard on it, but the history is that there are very many youths out there who may be beyond ... view
• 30 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I do not want to belabor the points that have been addressed by the previous speaker. I also feel that this being the National Assembly, we are supposed to lead the way. We are being watched by the entire country. Several things that we may think are jokes, or the way we tease each other, remember the citizenry out there think that, that is the way they ought to treat each other. When you listen to some of these radio stations, you end up thinking that there is war in ... view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker. I seek your direction. Under Schedule Four of the Constitution, the function of management of our refuse removal, refuse dumping and solid waste disposal is a function of the counties. While I have no issue with the Motion itself, and I will be supporting it, because it is a policy issue on environment and the Government should aid the counties, we cannot urge the national Government to come up with a commissioner to manage waste disposal in this country. It is the function of the county governments. I do not think we ... view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. Any person who has had a chance to visit the Dandora dumpsite will be in complete agreement with what the Mover of this Motion has stated. The waste disposal problem is a global one, and we need to manage it as a country. As far as I am concerned, we are dealing with this issue in a very haphazard manner. This is a problem that the Government should address in a universal, or global, manner. view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: A lot of waste is harmful and toxic. I am thinking about the waste that comes from hospitals and industries, yet nobody really follows on what happens. We had a lot of hope that Nairobi City, and other urban centres, would be cleaned up when Michuki was the Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources. view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: As we speak, a river that passes through our urban centres has gone back to what it used to be. Private enterprises have been left to dump garbage rather than former the local authorities and county governments. So, we need a legal and policy frameworks that will look at this issue. view
• 24 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, we need to be on the lookout because the developed world attempts to dump their toxic waste in developing countries. Recently, we read that there was a ship that was coming to the country to dump toxic waste. view