Alfred Bwire

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Minister should not say that it is only a few factories which produce these by-products. All the factories that I know produce molasses. Maybe, he can deny production of the other by- products. It is wrong for him to say that only a few factories produce by-products. Can farmers get paid for the molasses that the sugar factories produce? All the factories produce molasses. view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think it is her field staff who do not give women the knowledge required to encourage them to borrow. If they are taught the advantages of borrowing, they will be willing to borrow. So, what steps has the Minister taken to ensure that her field staff reach as many groups of women as possible to enlighten them and tell them the benefit of borrowing the money? view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Energy:- (a) if he could confirm whether there are conflicting roles between the Kenya Power and Generation Company and the Geothermal Development Company; (b) what plans the Government has put in place to ensure geothermal is attractive to investors, and, (c) if he could confirm whether there are geothermal potential sites in Western Kenya and if so, when the sites will be exploited. view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you very much for that elaborate answer. I wish to say that Kenya has very high geothermal potential sites. In fact, it has one of the best in the world. There are about 14 of them; to name, but just a few, we have Longonot, Suswa and--- view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: I was just giving my background. What is your Ministry doing to increase the exploration of geothermal sites, so that KENGEN can increase the supply of electricity to make it affordable? view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, now that the Assistant Minister has confirmed that there is geothermal potential in western Kenya, what is the Ministry doing to ensure that at least one of those sites in western Kenya is exploited? view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance:-– (a) whether he is aware that the recently introduced Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) in the banking industry has increased incidences of fraud by bank employees; and, (b) how the Government plans to deal with the situation. view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think the answer that the Assistant Minister has given is merely a public relations answer. It is in the public domain that there have been cases of people who have been arraigned in court for committing the offence which I would call “theft try servant”. There are cases of bank staff who stole money from fixed deposit accounts. There are cases of back staff who would alter the numbers of peoples’ accounts and transfer money to different accounts whose recipient is known to the bank staff. The person whose account the money ... view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister should be able to tell this House what steps he is going to take to make that system fool proof so that the person who is sending the money is given immediate information about the account that is receiving the money. view
• 11 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is, indeed, true this system was introduced to reduce fraud, but now that the fraudsters have found a way of committing the same fraud namely, theft by servant, could the Assistant Minister inform this House and the Central Bank that before the transferee leaves the bank, she or he is given a written assurance that the money has already entered the foreign account, so that if the money has gone to the wrong account, the customer can alert the bank that the money has gone to the wrong account? view