Adan Keynan

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Fourth, we want the EACC to also investigate the true identity and the legal existence to the Orange participation; that is Orange SA and Orange East Africa. We eventually became a bit suspicious that even the consortium might have been our usual cartels. Therefore, what we are asking the EACC is to tell us the true faces of the individuals behind the Orange group of companies. 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
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Fifth, we recommend that the Government should reconsider its privatisation of Telkom Kenya Limited and its recapitalisation and restructuring, in light of the loss- making trend by Telkom Kenya; and in light of the serious security challenges that privatisation has brought to this country. Communication is a quasi-security function. Those who do understand should know that the challenge that the world is facing today is as a result of poorly coordinated communication industry. Are we safe that today Telkom Kenya is in the hands of individuals whose identity and face is not known? Because of this and the fact that ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Sixth, the EACC should also investigate the assets of Telkom Kenya before and after privatisation so that we have an idea of how much the value of Telkom Kenya was before and after it was privatised. This is because we suspected that huge chunks of land belonging to this entity might have disappeared alongside the privatisation process. This is information we could not get. That is why somebody did not find it fit to keep an asset registry. Therefore, we are asking the EACC to give us a list of the assets of Telkom Kenya before and after its privatisation, ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Seventh, the National Treasury engaged private legal and financial consultants, instead of engaging the Office of the Auditor-General or the Office of the Attorney- General, without the approval of the key institutions required to oversee the process. The law is very clear. Since it was not followed; since the consultant was an employee of the National Treasury and since the legal process was also provided by somebody who is not even recognised and the Attorney-General was not involved; we are saying that the Government of Kenya, through the National Treasury, which was the key agent, uses this means. Therefore, the ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Equally, we are also saying that the Government never sought the Communications Commission of Kenya’s (CCK) approval or authorisation when it came to ceding further shares in Telkom Kenya. In this era, we have created entities that use taxpayers’ funds, including the CCK, the Privatisation Commission, the Office of the Auditor-General, the Office of the Attorney-General, the Inspectorate of State Corporations and the Efficiency Monitoring Unit, yet the Government did not find the latitude to refer or ask these entities to be involved in the privatisation process of Telkom Kenya. We are, therefore, saying that those individuals who failed to ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: The ceding of shares by the Government of Kenya to Orange Telkom was illegal. Therefore, since the process was illegal, the Government has a right to reclaim the entire shareholding of Telkom Kenya. This is the only way we can shame the corrupt, fight corruption and end impunity. This is the only way we can send a very strong message that you can connive in an illegal process, just when people are going for election or on 31st December, when everybody is holidaying; but eventually, Kenyans have the will to determine how that process was done. It is not an ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Kenya is duty-bound to reclaim the entire shareholding of Telkom Kenya because the process was flawed. view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: There is also clear lack of clarity about the market valuation. When we asked how much Telkom Kenya was worth, nobody could tell us. Eventually, we had to struggle and we were told it was worth Kshs50.98 billion. We were told that, everything included, Telkom Kenya was worth about Kshs50 billion. That is unbelievable. Therefore, we are asking again that the Government must engage experts to validate and give the true value of Telkom Kenya. Otherwise, the value given is suspect; it is meant to hoodwink and mislead the public. view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the EACC should also undertake investigations and determine the circumstances that led to the drastic and suspicious investment by Alcazar. The ownership and location of the company that participated in the consortium that won the tender is not known. They do not have an office. Eventually, we are told that it exited and somebody was paid billions of shillings. Nobody knows who that person is. Do we not have the right to know who the person who participated in the privatisation is? Do we not have the right to know who owns Alcazar? Who is Alcazar ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Equally, the EACC should also investigate the rationale and the role of the entity called “Orange”. As I earlier explained, after going through the entire process and evaluating it, we became suspicious that the whole thing might be something that was cartel-driven, cartel-cantered and cartel-blessed. Therefore, even the issue of invoking Orange’s name became suspicious. We were told that the company was Orange East Africa. At one time we were told that it was Orange East Africa. At another time, we were told that it was Orange SA. At another time, we were told that it was Orange France. The ... view