Alfred Sambu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. When the Media Bill was being debated in the House, the Daily Nation, out of the blues published, one morning, that I had said unprintable things. I never contributed to the debate on the Media Bill at that time. What are these unprintable things? When I went home, I was told that I had said unprintable things in the House, and some women came to me and asked: "What are these unprintable things that you said?", yet in the whole of the HANSARD you cannot find a single line that ... view
• 30 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, are they in order? Simply because I have asked about them, they are now walking out of the House! view
• 30 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: No! view
• 29 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have problems of conflict when residents are asked to make decisions as to what projects should be implemented using the LATF. At least, I have seen this in my constituency. They make a decision in one year to do a certain project and they do not vote enough funds for it. Then in the next year, they make a decision and do not include funds for that project. Then you will find uncompleted projects which, of course they will say, the CDF should complete. Will the Assistant Minister direct that the projects which have been ... view
• 29 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to support this Motion. I agree with my colleagues, and I do not want to sound repetitive, that this Ministry ought to get more money, because it is the face of Kenya. This is the Ministry that has put Kenya on the map. Our image out there is very good, and it is because of such things like good democracy in Kenya. Since we got Independence, every five years, we have had elections and in Africa, that is something that we should be proud of. We have good ... view
• 23 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Seeing that the matter is not moving us anywhere because we are discussing personalities on documents which have not been approved by the Speaker, could I be in order to request that the Chair calls upon the Mover to reply? view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I want to start supporting this Vote by commending the Minister. As my colleague from Lamu North said, the Minister may be number one in terms of performance, but the people of Kapsabet are number last. The District Water Engineer in Kapsabet must be disciplined. This is what makes people cry even more for devolution of power. If you want, call it majimboism . I think that is where Kenya will finally head to, because some junior officers out there behave as if ... view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the Minister and his Assistant could be kind enough to listen to us--- Unless they do not want us to contribute! I want to say that those boreholes cannot be done, even if we have the CDF money. We do not have the technology to extract it. I would say that it would be cheap, if the Minister could talk to the Kenya Army. That is because they have the equipment and manpower. The CDF would be able to fund their vehicles. They could be able to clean up some of those old boreholes ... view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Allow me to repeat just one sentence, that water is life. view
• 22 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: That is really important. It underlies what I am going to say. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was in the House in 1998, and I am still here now. The issue of water causing havoc in Budalangi was articulated in this House very ably by the late Mr. Okondo, followed by Mr. Osogo. Now, Mr. Wanjala is talking about water. I also think that his re-election to this House will revolve around water. I do concur with my colleague, the Minister for Planning and National Development that, surely, we have intelligent people in this country. We have good engineers ... view