Wakoli Bifwoli

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• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: The first amendment that is being sought is an amendment to the Interpretation and General Provisions Act. This amendment was necessitated by the provisions on the Grand Coalition which, because it has 40 Ministers, a number of Ministries, which traditionally have been single Ministries, were split. Creating those Ministries touched on legislation that was being implemented by certain Ministries. Just to give an example, the Ministry of Health was split into the Ministry of Medical Services and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. It is the Ministry of Health which was administering the Public Health Act. If you look ... view
• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: The other example is the Export Processing Zones Act, which was to be administered by the Ministry of Industry, but under the organization of Government, the EPZs are under the Ministry of Trade, and there is no Ministry of Industry as such. We have a Ministry of Industrialization, hence the confusion as to who is responsible for the EPZs. So, this amendment deals with those situations, so that in future, you can create and recreate Ministries without necessarily having to amend each and every legislation. view
• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the next set of amendments are amendments which touch on the Civil Procedure Act and the Appellate Jurisdiction Act. The amendments to these two legislations are going to revolutionize the way we run our courts. They are not amendments which have just come out of the blues. They are amendments which have been carefully thought by the Rules Committee that was appointed by the Chief Justice to look into the issue of the management of court cases. Only last week, we passed the Arbitration Bill, which addressed part of the problem of the backlog of cases. ... view
• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you cannot substantiate the obvious. When it comes to the banks, we shall come to that shortly. There is A1, A2 and A3 that I will speak on. As far as constitutional office holders are concerned, no tribunal has been appointed. view
• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am saying that this Bill refers to constitutional office holders who have been specifically mentioned as constitutional office holders under our Constitution. It is there. Give me your Constitution and I will show you--- view
• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was coming to that. The constitutional office holders are specifically mentioned in the Constitution. This Act has, all the time, related to them. Not everybody who is mentioned in the Constitution is a constitution office holder. I will get the correct Section here. I think it is Section 119. On harmonising the salary structure, the constitution office holders were harmonised with those of Permanent Secretaries. In fact, there is Band A1. Who enjoys this? It is the Attorney-General and the Chief Justice who are constitutional office holders. However, in the harmonisation, we have the Permanent ... view
• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, I am just about to come to that. I will state how much those in Band A1 will get. Just be patient. view
• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think we are just going round in circles. Mr. Amos Wako has no personal interest in this matter. He may get a benefit, but whether I get it or not, does not matter. I want to make that point very clear. Therefore, this particular Standing Order, I think, is geared to what Mr. Mutula Kilonzo said; it is also, really, geared to those types of situations that are not obvious on the face of it. In other words, a Motion comes up, an hon. Member speaks on, and you may not know whether an hon. Member ... view
• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am going to say that, but just want to agree totally with what Mr. Mutava Musyimi has stated. That is why, from the very beginning, I began by outlining the history of this Bill. I do not think Mr. Musyimi was here when I started speaking, but I did mention that in the Bomas Draft Constitution and the Wako Draft Constitution, we have a Salaries Review Commission, which is supposed to harmonise all these salaries within the public sector. I did refer to the nature that he has very ably, and more eloquently than myself, ... view
• 26 May 2009 in National Assembly: Then Subsection (5) says who those officials are - High Court Judges, Judges of the Court of Appeal, Members of the Public Service Commission, Members of the Electoral Commission, the Attorney-General and the Controller and Auditor-General. view