Samuel Onunga Atandi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to appeal to this House to take serious measures on this particular CS. If this House is going to be a House of talking, discussions and noise-making, then we are going to have many more Kenyans losing their lives in situations which could otherwise be managed. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I have been in this Chamber since 2.00 p.m. because I was waiting to ventilate on this very important Bill. However, I am disappointed because Members who have contributed have basically digressed. They failed to appreciate the significance of this Bill and its content. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I would like to start by saying that I have gone through the whole of this Bill. I have realised that it has borrowed heavily from the Kenya Roads Act 2007 in many areas. I have also noted that most Members are keen basically on the operationalisation of this Bill. I mean the aspects of the Bill that talk about road construction. I have been careful to observe that there is an introduction into this Bill which, in my view, I find very important in the management of our roads. This is Part III which is the establishment of the ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I would like to support this particular introduction in this Bill. However, I think that the Bill has not been given the required mandate which I would like the Committee to look at. In my view, we need to expand the mandate of this Public Roads Standards Board, so that we can have within it eminent personalities within our societies and captains of industry in the various areas that are relevant to our economy. This will enable us to have a competent team of personalities who will advise the CS on many other aspects of quality of roads, roads construction ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: The other issue that I have also noted in the creation of Public Roads Standards Board is that the Bill tries to create a department in the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development which in my view will not serve the intended purpose. For instance, the Chairman of this board is supposed to be the Principal Secretary in that particular ministry. The Bill says that the secretariat of this important board should be created by the same Ministry. Let us see how we can separate and make this particular body autonomous. We also need to give The electronic ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: it financial autonomy so that they can advise the Cabinet Secretary properly. You realise today that some of our Cabinet Secretaries have not gone to school. We have appointed Cabinet Secretaries who are Standard Seven drop-outs. We need competent people to guide them on the way they can think about implementing our roads. I am not saying that my friend Macharia is illiterate; you know he is a very competent Cabinet Secretary having been my boss in the banking sector. I know he is a well-briefed man who goes out of his way to get information and do things properly. ... view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to make my remarks on the National Policy on Climate Finance. When I think about climate change and its financing, I reflect back to 1996, when I first landed in Nairobi. Nairobi was very cold. We would spend all the hours indoors. Hon. Speaker, despite residing in one of the largest slums in this country in Nairobi, we had fresh air. view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we had fresh air. We had plenty of water. Right now, you realise that in Nairobi, it is very hot and even water, which is a basic commodity, is hardly available. We really need to think about how we can address, in a more organised way, some of the consequences of climate degradation. This Policy will realise certain proceeds and one of them is that we are likely to see the private sector investing in climate matters. In my view, climate change is one of the things we need to consider as an economic activity where ... view
• 14 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view