Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Another important aspect of this Bill is on self-regulation. The current NGO law has no aspect of self-regulation. The law enacted in 2013 sets out a very elaborate process of self- regulation by PBOs and civil societies. This is very important so that they can regulate and control themselves to ensure that whatever they are doing has an impact to the community. This aspect will enhance performance. view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we already have the NGO Coordination Board which has been trying to discourage NGOs from operating by putting very many caveats and trying to deregister some of them that are doing a very good job simply because this law has not been operationalised. If this law had been operationalised, the NGO Coordination Board would not be making those unilateral decisions because it is making them from the NGO Act, which is already out of date. view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Another important aspect of this law is the synergy between the Government and the NGOs. There has always been suspicion by the Government on activities of the NGOs. This law spells out how the Government and the PBOs can work and synchronise their activities to ensure that beneficiaries of the programmes, who are the rural folks benefit optimally from them. Enactment of this Bill will remove suspicion between NGOs and the Government because there have been allegations that some NGOs are doing jobs that are antagonistic or those that undermine activities of the Government. This Bill allows the Government and ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: this country should ensure that jobs that can be done by Kenyans are not done by expatriates. We have many NGOs that are doing jobs that Kenyans can do simply because there is no law to speak to that. I support this amendment that will force the Government to implement it as soon as possible. I still insist that the CS in charge of the operationalisation of this law should be reprimanded. view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. I want to support this amendment because of the way we have restructured it to ensure that we rank schools according to categories. We have different schools with different facilities and capabilities. Therefore, ranking should be based on categorisation. We have neglected co-curricular activities so much. There are certain schools that do well in co-curricular activities. We would like to promote co- curricular activities, so that they become part of the ranking system. view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I support the amendment. view
• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: That is the middle name. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to, first, commend the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources for this very good and detailed analysis of the amendments that were presented by the Senate. Secondly, for the first time, I want to commend the Senate because this time round they have done a good job. As my Chair has indicated, they have added value to what we had 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
• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: presented to this House before the Forest Conservation and Management Bill went to the Senate. They have come up with some innovative amendments which are quite commendable. For example, we had proposed in the Bill that the Director of the Kenya Forest Service should be called “Director-General”. However, through their innovation and research, they proposed that he or she should be called “Chief Conservator of Forests”. After we researched, we found out that worldwide, this position is titled “Chief Conservator of Forests” and not “Director-General”. This was a real value-addition to the Bill. There are a number of amendments that ... view
• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to make my comments on this Report by the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and the proposed amendments from the Senate. I wish to agree entirely with my Chair and the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources on the proposal by the Senate regarding the agreement on what should be done if the two Houses disagree on any amendment. This is clearly defined in the Constitution and in the Standing Orders. There are procedures to be followed and we have been doing so. It would be completely erroneous for us to ... view
• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I am very happy about the Senate’s agreement that under the Schedule, we should delete all those provisions dealing with genetic material and genetic resources. As my Chair clearly indicated, when the Bill was in this House, the Committee, through me, had proposed to delete this. Unfortunately, I was out of the country and my Chair was overwhelmed with the many amendments and she was not able to present this amendment. As a result, it went through. I am happy the Senate saw the sense why it is important to delete from the Schedule “genetic material” and “genetic resources”. view