Samuel Mathenge Ndiritu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I rise to support the State of the Nation Address. view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Part 51 of the Address says that it is not often that we get the opportunity to assess and report on our own progress as a Government. However, one thing is clear: The Jubilee Administration has a long-term development plan. It has a defined and orderly strategy to protect and promote the interests of our country. view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: That was what the Address was about. I know it has been branded as a campaign Address, but the Constitution gives the President the opportunity to report on the state of the nation and part of that is what the Government has achieved. Some projects are midway while The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: others have been completed. I want to congratulate the President for his well-researched Address that covered everything. Since there are quite a lot of things, I just want to mention something to do with devolution. He clearly stated that the Constitution says that 15 per cent of the money should go to the counties. The Jubilee Government has not only done what the Constitution demands, but it has gone far beyond the constitutional requirement in supporting devolution. When we enacted the new Constitution and we are the first generation to actualize it, we were very ambitious. Maybe, it is because ... view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: The governors went on employing even where there were people who were already employed. Recently, there was something doing rounds in social media when we talked about wages. There was a comparison between the Kenyan Government and the State of California. While in Kenya we have a projected population of 47 million, they have 39 million. Our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 63.4 million, and theirs is 2.8 million. Our size of the Government, both the elected leaders and the State officials is 2,494 and theirs is 127. You can see that gap. Lastly, the people of Gilgil have something ... view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I have sat here for quite some time. I had quite a number of things to say but I will talk about one thing only due to lack of time. I have a lot of passion in livestock rearing because that is the first thing I did with my grandfather. I also have a good history of how the economies of the villages were made. I support my colleague, Hon. Abdinoor, for bringing a Bill that will hopefully bring back some good memory. I only want to talk about livestock rearing in my constituency, specifically ... view
• 31 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. Water is usually referred to as life and actually it is. In our recent constitutional dispensation, it was made a right, meaning that it is a duty for the Government to provide its citizens with water. Maybe it has not sunk and there are so many other rights which the Government is not able to provide. I know of a country which enacted that legislation or made it a right in their Constitution much The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of ... view
• 31 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: later than Kenya and that is Mexico and one cannot be cut off from the water supply. Maybe they are rich and are able to assist the companies which supply water. When we talk about hydrologists and hydrology, it has been a department in the Ministry of Water all along. I am sure most of the Members have seen those graduated plates in rivers and that is the work of hydrologists because they are supposed to understand the behaviour of water resources on the surface, that is rivers and underground in boreholes and wells. On surface water, we have dams, ... view
• 31 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: have no problem with the first two. Maybe going forward when we come for the Third Reading, we will raise a question. Clause 4(e) states that when the Board constitutes, it will demand and certify hydrological studies and reports necessary for the design of hydrological structures. We have been talking for a while about the tunnels that are being built in the Aberdares. It is the history that has been compiled by hydrologists or such bodies that has informed whether this is the right thing to do now or it will become a white elephant. I am not saying that ... view
• 17 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to put my voice on this Bill. Contempt of court has been an animal that has scared almost everybody because it seems like the judges and the magistrates have arbitrarily instituted it or used it to silence and intimidate people. This Bill is very timely. For us who are not in the law profession, we did not know where the boundaries were. You would not even feel free in the corridors of courts. Whatever you did, you got scared. This Bill now defines criminal and civil contempt. This proposed ... view