Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: We must have our priorities right. I want us to implement the Basic Education Act. We are trying to bring a law here which will help administratively to get the parents to come and commit themselves to pay. The law says there is a penalty. view
• 10 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for the opportunity to support this Motion. view
• 10 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: It is important that we must have the House Business Committee in place as you have said. Going by the Standing Orders, we must have it in place, but the concerns raised by hon. Members, as you indicated, should be addressed. We hope they will be addressed, so that we can start on the right footing. view
• 10 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Parliament is the face of this country; we are the leadership and we are operating as a National Assembly. We are the highest level of leadership. I think it is good for us to display the best that Kenyans, including young children, would like to see. We are told we are doing things; unfortunately all we do here is shown on TV. Sometimes it is repeated and those who cannot watch news during the day watch it in the evening and in the morning when they wake up at 6.00 a.m. So, we must operate with decorum. view
• 10 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it is also unfortunate that some of those involved in the kind of things that are making hon. Members unhappy are members of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), which is supposed to be taking care of our welfare. view
• 10 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: When you see the way members of the county assemblies are behaving, if they copy this kind of behavour, you can imagine the multiplicity of it in this country. We have been trying to get that situation out of our way, but if the leadership here is going to display it, it is a matter that we must take care of. We must take serious action so that it does not recur. view
• 10 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Threats like what I saw on that day should not be here. In fact, it is going to be difficult for us to sort out the issue of the late hon. Muchai if we cannot handle the situation concerning our discipline. I want to offer to the families of our beloved colleague, hon. Muchai, his two bodyguards and the driver, my message of condolence. It is a big challenge to us, because we have been saying that we do not have security. We have been complaining about insecurity. The hon. Member had security officers who were armed but that still ... view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this Traffic (Amendment) Bill and to congratulate my friend, hon. Lekuton for bringing the amendment. view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are several underlying factors. In fact, before we address the issues of discipline among our drivers including private vehicles drivers, drivers for public service vehicles and VIP drivers, you can see what happens. It is because of lack of discipline to begin with. When you leave Parliament and you go towards Mombasa Road through Uhuru Highway, it takes a lot of time and it is because there is no discipline. Even where there is space for one vehicle to pass, everybody blocks it. I think it goes down to training and culture which has to ... view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: pass, you find there are accidents. Some hon. Members have talked about having uniform colours but you know the vehicles specifically used by schools have blue number plates. A number of them are marked and written distinctly that they are school buses. I think that could be enough. For gadgets like safety belts and where the law on safety belts and speed limits has been violated, I think that needs to be enforced. There is also the issue of the Zebra Crossing. There is a Zebra Crossing here and an hon. Member has talked about it. It is still here ... view