William Kipkiror

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Wanawake, Political Parties Liaison Committee, Transparency International and the United Green Movement. I do not want to read all of them but I want to confirm to the House that we received very overwhelming support from those institutions and others that I am not able to mention. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, out of those institutions, 26 supported these amendments while eight did not. In summary, 71 per cent of the institutions and individuals who appeared before the Committee supported these amendments while 28 per cent did not support them. The Committee observed that a big percentage supported the amendments. It ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to make my colleague happy and comfortable because I am a peacemaker. I am saying that what should persuade this House to agree with these proposed amendments is the overwhelming support of Kenyans. Hon. Sankok is my good friend. So, I want us to move together with him. I want to refer Members to Volume II of the Report. It has all the points I have raised. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Let me finalise because I want more Members to have more time to contribute to this Bill. Those who supported the proposed amendments did so for some reasons. The December election date will be less receptive to the academic calendar for secondary and primary schools. This has been a major argument in support of the proposed amendments. The election date of December will be convenient and increase voters’ turnout. The Member who spoke before me confirmed that he has 130,000 voters, but only 70 per cent voted because August is not convenient for most voters. The December election date was ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: There are two elections we did in August. Most Kenyans are historically conversant with the December election date. This has been tested. This date is ideal due to favourable weather conditions unlike August, when it is rainy and farmers are engaged in agricultural activities. This may sound very casual but it is true that most parts of the country receive rain in August. Announcement of election results takes even three or four days. My constituency is not expansive but because of rain, our roads become impassable. Sometimes the results, which The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: should be announced within a day or two, take three days. That is the reality on the ground. As leaders of this country, we should appreciate all these issues and change this law. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: It is also important to inform this House some of the reasons Members did not support these proposed amendments. Those who are against the date say that the August election date is ideal because it is in tandem with the commencement of the Government financial year, which commences in July. That is a good point. Those who registered as voters in the rural areas normally travel for holidays. There are reasons which we were given by the public. All said and done, the arguments in support of the proposed amendments are more convincing and practicable compared to the ones that ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: There is something which Hon. Duale said a few minutes ago. As the Chair of the Committee, I feel it is important for me to raise this issue before I conclude my submission on this matter. I want to reaffirm what the Leader of the Minority Party has talked about. On 20th August 2015, through a Communication from the Chair, the Speaker guided that no amendments should be proposed to a Bill which seek to amend the Constitution, unless there is something extraordinary in the Bill that would require application of extraordinary measures. This is a House of records and ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: One of the Members said that we should delay these amendments until the committee of 14 members comes forward with proposals on this particular issue. Hon. Wamalwa, in his position as the Member for Kiminini, spent time and energy to come up with this Bill. Public resources were used when we went round the country for two weeks. As a House, we cannot delay these amendments because of the other arrangements being undertaken. That will be dealt with at another time. We do not need to delay the proposed amendments by Hon. Wamalwa because of the Building Bridges Initiative Committee. ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we want to move as a House and deal with our matters as they come. If there will be other proposed constitutional amendments, we will deal with them as and when they come. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: It is, therefore, my humble request to Members to support the Bill so that we change the date from August to December as supported by majority of Kenyans who appeared before the Committee. I support. view