Uhuru Kenyatta

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: I am happy to report to these august Houses that my administration has laid a firm and sound foundation for the devolved system of government; a foundation that has the potential to multiply the economic fundamentals of our county economies immeasurably. You may ask why we chose to accelerate certain goals in our development agenda. Why did we choose to accelerate the issuance of titles deeds, double our road networks, build brand new railway lines, double our power production and double our GDP? Why has my administration taken such tremendous strides in creating accelerated development? It took England 200 years ... view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Is the trajectory the logical path that our country should take? view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you. As I have said before, our country has been in a constitutional moment since 2017. The only question is: What should 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
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: we do with this constitutional moment? If we do not embrace it, how will it return to punish our nation? If we embrace it, who are the winners and losers of that moment? That, Hon. Members, is the question before us today. The parliamentary record, as well as history, reflects that during this reporting period, my administration attempted to resolve the constitutional dilemma facing our country. We went to the people and five million Kenyans agreed to initiate the process of putting the first amendment to the 2010 Constitution to a vote. view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: The first amendment was thereafter taken to the county assemblies where it received nearly a unanimous endorsement. In this august Parliament, the people’s elected representatives gave the first amendment a clear nod of approval by a margin in excess of two-thirds. view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: I am speaking to those that need to listen to this. If, indeed, Article 1 of the 2010 Constitution states that all sovereign power rests with the people of Kenya and can be exercised either directly or through their representatives, the people made their voices heard with regard to the first amendment. view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: They exercised this power directly through the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) petition for constitutional change, and indirectly through the county assemblies and Parliament. The record of Parliament attests to the fact that the people wanted a constitutional change, but a few individuals sat down in a backroom and decided otherwise. view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: That said, and this being a House of records, I must record what we lost from the first amendment. I am doing this for Parliamentary record and for posterity. The first loss was equity in resource allocation. In missing the first amendment to the 2010 Constitution, Kenyans missed the possibility to increase the minimum county allocation from the current 15 per cent to 35 per cent. view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: As mentioned earlier, my administration has increased this allocation to 30 per cent through administrative fiat. However, to anchor this goodwill in the Constitution so that devolution is embedded, we wanted a constitutional amendment that was clear and certain. This did not happen. Had this amendment been adopted, counties would have, by law, received Kshs562 billion instead of the Kshs316 billion allocated to them in the 2020/2021 Budget, an increase of over 75 percent of their current allocation. The second loss from the first amendment was proportional representation. Proportionality is about the equitable distribution of resources amongst all groups. On ... view
• 30 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: The first amendment to our Constitution would have ensured that 50 per cent of all Senators are women. The logic was to ensure that if we percolate the proposed 35 per cent of our national revenue to counties, women should be at the centre of decision-making on how this revenue is utilised. This did not happen. The third loss was about expanding the national Executive to accommodate a broader face of Kenya and expand representation. This would have constitutionalised the end of the winner- takes-all outcome of elections that creates so much toxicity and tension. view