Silas Muriuki Ruteere

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we know that the Assistant Minister appoints District Commissioners (DCs) as chairmen of District Education Boards. It is the DCs who license bars. Why can he not direct his appointees to close the bars? view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I congratulate hon. Mureithi for brining this petition. I support it because many of us are candidates of disability. I was not disabled until 2001 when I had an accident and these days I limp a lot. As much as my disability is not of a serious nature, people can acquire disabilities even at a time when they are functioning very properly. Recently, there were grenades fired in Nairobi and there are those who have already been disabled. They were citizens in this country who were doing very well. So, I support this petition and let it ... view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: I thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also stand here to support the Motion. I want to thank hon. Khalwale for bringing this Bill, which is overdue. We know that opinion polls can cause chaos in a country, if they are not properly conducted. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: As we move close to the elections, there are very many people who are trying to say that they are conducting polls either at FM radio stations or at certain television stations. We have seen that in some cases, like in the FM radio stations, the presenters will take the opinion polls to favour the candidate or the people they want to be seen as popular. It is time that opinion polls were professionally conducted by bodies that have no interest, or which will have no prejudice over the way the people determine who is popular and who is not ... view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we know that there are people in the countryside who will always move with the opinions of the majority. If opinion polls are not professionally conducted, they can lead to the wrong people getting elected to public office. That is why it is very important that this Bill is passed with the necessary provisions. We should know who the owners of the polling bodies are, who are financing them and what their interest in the opinion polls they are conducting is, so that we know that at the end of the day, the opinion polls reflect ... view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I support this Bill and sincerely thank hon. Amina, because our concerns, especially about the youth, are very genuine. We will lose a society if we do not pass this Bill. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: I do also wish to echo hon. Mututho because his Bill that we passed is the law that is helping this country. We know that alcoholism is now very much reduced. Even where it is rampant, it is because the law enforcement officers are not doing their work as they are supposed to do. Otherwise, where they are working as is expected of them, there is a lot of improvement and many of those who had been affected are now a sober group. We do not have issues of wife battering by men because the husbands are not getting home ... view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill is very necessary; we need to give NACADA the teeth with which to bite. We need to see that much more is done to the drug traffickers, because they are interested in enriching themselves while not caring for the youth of this county. We have seen the effects of drugs and substance abuse, how it has transformed human beings into cabbages; we want this law passed soon and effected immediately. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, NACADA is a body that has tried to do all it could do without the necessary mandate being given to it. This Bill addresses the issue of giving it the mandate it requires so that it can be effective. view
• 14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, because we need to pass this Bill quickly, I beg to support. view