27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, this is a very good piece of legislation that we have put in. I also want to thank the Committee for the work well done. This is a forward looking piece of legislation to give dignity to the people who are deprived of their liberty. When you are arrested, detained or imprisoned, it does not mean you cease to be a human being. This Bill is just ensuring that all people, whether you are in prison or you are free, still have their dignity. This Bill is going a long way to ...
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19 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Speaker. I also wish to pass my heartfelt condolences to the family of Senator Otieno Kajwang’. Senator Kajwang’ is one of the people I respect so much because after my law school, he was one of my pupilage masters and taught me how to handle cases in court. I appeared with him at the time of the 1992 petitions after the first multiparty elections. He was a very jovial person. He was the one who believed that when you were a junior lawyer accompanying a senior lawyer, and you went for tea, it was the senior lawyer ...
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12 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion.
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12 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
First, I must thank my colleague for bringing this important Motion to the House. Infrastructure is the key factor in the growth of the economy of any country. The expansion of Thika Highway has created more problems for this City. As you drive on the highway towards the City, you do it on a wider road and end up on narrow road. Traffic snarl-ups then develop. That has created a lot of traffic snarl-ups within the City and its environs. In order for us to move forward, we must work out a plan to expand the road network within and ...
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12 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
The traffic jam on Uhuru Highway, sometimes, causes people to miss their flights. Driving from Parliament Buildings to Nyayo Stadium and beyond will take you more than two hours, when it is supposed to take only five minutes. This problem extends to Capitol Hill, where so much development is going on with very little road network being developed. So, it creates a lot of problems for those who are moving around. Sometimes, it is much easier to walk than move around in your vehicle within the City. Moving around in a vehicle is very difficult. Therefore, we must plan ahead ...
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12 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
our road network. Those roads were planned a long time ago, before the City reached the current level.
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12 Nov 2014 in National Assembly:
The road network in the business hub of Nairobi – Westlands – is terrible. The planners who came up with good roads did not create safety measures. For example, there are no pedestrian walks. The roads are not signed to direct road users where to go. Unless you know this City very well, it is very difficult to manoeuvre and get where you want to go. As I support this Motion, I urge that the Government moves with speed to ensure that the road network within the City and beyond is modernized and expanded so that our economy can grow ...
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I would like to congratulate my friend, hon. Chris Wamalwa, for bringing this Motion to the House. This is the only country that does not honour and recognise its heroes. If you look at the heroes in this country, many are celebrated abroad, but ignored at home. The late former Vice-President, hon. Michael Wamalwa Kijana, is one of the great sons of this country. Renaming Kitale Technical Institute after him will be a great honour to celebrate his contribution to this country. Hon. Wamalwa Kijana was one of the people who fought for ...
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, university is one of the places where people acquire knowledge; it is one place where some of the social changes of this country take place. We will make sure that when somebody goes there and knows that the late Wamalwa Kijana was one of the great intellectuals, as Dr. Oburu Odinga said, he will speak “Queen’s English” even much better than Britons. Sometimes, when the late Kijana Wamalwa spoke English many people sat up and listened, because he spoke very fine English. This would be a great honour. He was also a lecturer at the University ...
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Nairobi at some point before he became a politician. Therefore, we are doing a great honour to a great son of this country by renaming Kitale Technical Institute in his honour.
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