Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1301 to 1310 of 1948.

• 8 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I, therefore, given that English is not necessarily my first language of communication, amend and say that on the basis of the few excerpts that I have read to the House from the report of the Controller and Auditor- General, the Controller and Auditor-General does not appear to confirm the findings contained in the report of the Committee. view
• 8 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to reiterate something that I said in this House yesterday; that the hallmark of honour is to say what you mean and mean what you say. On three occasions when I raised the matter on absorption of contract teachers, the Government made an unequivocal commitment that as soon as we passed the Budget, 18,000 contract teachers would be absorbed. It is a harsh indictment on the Government that, that commitment; repeated here three times, is one that the Treasury did not take seriously when preparing the Estimates. I believe that ... view
• 8 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to reiterate something that I said in this House yesterday; that the hallmark of honour is to say what you mean and mean what you say. On three occasions when I raised the matter on absorption of contract teachers, the Government made an unequivocal commitment that as soon as we passed the Budget, 18,000 contract teachers would be absorbed. It is a harsh indictment on the Government that, that commitment; repeated here three times, is one that the Treasury did not take seriously when preparing the Estimates. I believe that ... view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- Aware that the original Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) was largely owned by dairy farmers who held the majority stake in the assets of the company estimated at over Kshs5 billion; noting that when the original KCC was converted to New KCC, the shareholding of the said farmers was never conclusively determined and secured; further aware that New KCC is now at an advanced stage of privatizing fully through public floatation of shares; deeply concerned that if the said privatization proceeds before the original shareholding rights of farmers are ... view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the infrastructure in this region that used to be commonly known as Western Province is absolutely deplorable. It is not just about this road from Kakamega Town to the airport. One wonders whether this Government has any deliberate and concrete plan to respond to the deplorable infrastructure situation in this region given the fact that the Government seems to be pumping billions of shillings to revive the infrastructure in some parts of the country. Is there any plan or is this region completely blacked out of the grand plans of Vision 2030 of the Coalition Government? view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have a request for a Ministerial Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on May 10th 2011 while responding to Question No.4 of that time filed by myself in respect of Messers. Lucas Odinga, Godfrey Egesa and Maria Gregory, all deceased, who were killed in cold blood at Maninga Village of Sigulo Island in Uganda on 18th April 2011 at 3.00 a.m., the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Richard Onyonka confirmed on the Floor of this House that the Kenya Government was conducting investigations into this grave matter in consultations with Ugandan ... view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this matter is of significant interest to this House, because it also touches on how then the Back-Bench relates with the Government and how seriously, therefore, we would take any Statements or pronouncements made by a Member of the Front Bench. With regard to this particular matter of recruitment, especially of the 18,000 teachers currently serving on contract, I have asked a Question on the matter three times in this House. On three different occasions, the Minister for Education made a commitment; an undertaking, that the Ministry of Education was in consultation with the Treasury, and that ... view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The hallmark of honour is to say what you mean and mean what you say. view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Is the Minister in order to give an indication that they are not ready, especially to absorb the 18,000 contract teachers when the Minister for Education in response to an answer I asked in this House, gave a firm commitment that the Government was going to do exactly that upon the Budget being endorsed by this House? Is the Deputy Prime Minister in order? view
• 6 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am really grateful to you and to the Minister. I just wanted to add my voice to this debate and say that I support this Bill and, of course, applaud the work that the Minister and the Government are doing to implement the recommendations of the Ransley Commission, which really gave a very damning indictment of the Police Force. I would like to say that with the kind of legislation that we are now enacting, in line with the Constitution, we are absolutely transforming the face of the Police Force, as should happen, to ... view