Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: that the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has rejected. Those were the contested amendments to Clauses 9, 72, 75, 77 and the Third Schedule. We had a Mediation Committee and in the Committee, we had a chance to discuss those contested clauses. This morning, I wish to inform the House of the resolutions we made on the contested clauses. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: First, there was Clause 9, which specifies how members of boards can be removed from those boards. We discussed this matter at the Mediation Committee and we all resolved that the proposal that had been made by the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources was the best because this is the standard proposal in all Bills, which basically specify the criteria a person has to meet in order to be appointed to a board. Among the criteria that is set out is, for example, a person shall not be appointed to the board if he has been convicted of ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, those are the standard conditions that are laid out in most of the Bills that we pass in this House. We agreed with the Senate that this should be maintained. Therefore, the earlier proposal by the Senate was dropped. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: On Clause 72, the Senate had proposed that the relevant counties ought to be furnished with pertinent copies of relevant documents maintained by the Chief Conservator of Forests. We discussed this and all agreed that what the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources had proposed was right. We noted that if every document held by the Conservator of Forests has to be availed to the counties, it will be very expensive to the Department of Forests. So, we agreed that within this law, there is a provision that all the records available at the Conservator of Forests will be ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: On Clause 75, the Senate had proposed that we delete the Environmental Management and Coordination Act of 1999 and replace it with the Environmental Management and Coordination Act of 2015. We all agreed at the mediation that the Environmental Management and Coordination Act of 1999 was not repealed. It was just amended. It is just one clause that was amended. Therefore, if we delete that and replace it with the one of 2015, we will have one clause which will then make no sense. So, we also agreed that this was an oversight by the Senate. Therefore, we agreed that ... view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: On Clause 77, the Senate had proposed that it be amended--- view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: On Clause 77, the Senate had proposed that it be amended by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (a)- view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: “The land in Section (a) shall not include Government settlement schemes already registered before the commencement of this Act”. The Mediation Committee agreed with this proposal. We all agreed that this was the right thing to do and it is already covered because settlement schemes are not part of the public forests or private forests. view