MURUGARA GEORGE GITONGA

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to ask the National Land Commission the following Question:

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this proposed amendment and I have several reasons why I should do so. I urge the House to also listen to this and reconsider its position. First and foremost, I have read the Committee Report. The...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) I have listened carefully. Unfortunately, I am not able to draw the distinction as he has put it. I have tremendous respect for Hon. T.J., a member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. What Hon. King’ara is proposing to do is to...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Everybody will have his or her opinion on this. If you look at this proposed amendment, we are making the law on boda boda and tuk tuk better than it is. Nobody is explaining why we have regulations on the same subject matter, which are...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. By the time we adjourned yesterday, I nominated the Member for Kirinyaga County 20th April 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 8 Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA)to second. Unfortunately, she was not able to. I wish to inform the House...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. As I reply, I wish to thank Members of Parliament for showing overwhelming support to the report and confirmation of Bishop David Oginde as the new Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. I also wish to thank...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Special Motion: THAT, taking into consideration the findings of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs in its Report on the vetting of a nominee for the appointment as the Chairperson of the Ethics and...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table: Report of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on its Vetting of a Nominee for Appointment as the Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) . Thank you, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, taking into consideration the findings of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs in its Report on the Vetting of a Nominee for Appointment as the Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am happy that you have reached me. This is the first time I am debating while you are on the Chair. I am grateful. This Motion of Adjournment is quite timely, especially now that schools are about...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) There is the previous one and another one today. This is unwelcome. As a country, we must relook at the issue of accidents especially those involving school children, because these are young lives we are nipping at the bud. They have a whole life ahead...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Thank you, CS, for that response. However, I have a supplementary question on behalf of the family of the late Willis Mugambi Kiraku as follows. What measures will the Government put in place to ensure that the family of...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you.

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. The Leader of the Majority Party will take two minutes and I will take only one minute. Allow me to thank my constituent, Hon. Professor Kithure Kindiki. Those who may not know, he is actually a constituent of Tharaka...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Section 13 of the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act, 2011 relating to the extension of period of consideration of nominees for appointment to a public office, this House...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: Report of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on the consideration of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.60 of 2022) together with...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Let me support this Report and the adoption of the proposed Treaty. The BATUK has a long history in this country and that is why we famously know them as “Johnnies” when they walk around Nanyuki and everywhere...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to also welcome the Women’s League. It is a society that has been on for many years now, slightly over 100 years. The numbers raise a little bit of questions. Some of us have not heard about them in...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I am not alleging. It is a fact. Hon. Speaker It is with a light touch. Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I understand. Allow me to welcome Kabarak High School in Rongai in Nakuru and...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you. Sit down.

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Hon Salasya, please, I have the microphone.

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This is exciting. As the excitement continues to grow, we debate this. I have listened to the rhetorical questions that are being asked— especially by Members from the other side of the political divide— both in law and...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Enforced disappearance is an act of extra-judicial killing. This is rampant in the country as witnessed by bodies being retrieved from River Yala. The regimes at independence and immediately after used to tell people: you cross the path of the Government...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. My comment on the first Petition is to associate myself with Hon. John Kiarie. I believe the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation, where Hon. John Kiarie is the Chair, would most certainly be the best to handle...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, taking into consideration the findings of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs in its Report on the vetting of a nominee for the appointment as the Solicitor-General of the Republic of Kenya, laid...

Hon. George Murugara (Tharaka, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to reply. Thank you.