Alfred Sambu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 431 to 440 of 494.

• 5 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very focused. I am sober. I am not drunk as Mr. G.G. Kariuki thinks. I have not taken any alcohol. It is good that the vehicles used by Government officers are being withdrawn from them. It is important that we give the field staff of the Ministry of Agriculture some means to go to the field. Right now, we are using the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to produce seedlings for farmers. In fact, I want to ensure the production of macadamia nuts in Mosop Constituency. However, who will be there to help the ... view
• 5 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the speaker on the Floor in order to impute improper motive on the staff of the Attorney-General, that they do not implement resolutions made by KACC to prosecute simply because they earn only a tenth of what the KACC staff earn? view
• 4 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is the Minister in order to mislead the House by saying that grouping of districts is dependent on the water catchment area a district falls under, and yet all the rivers that flow into Trans Nzoia and Yala Rivers emanate from the North Rift? That area has been downgraded to go to Kakamega. We will stop those rivers from flowing July 4, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1771 down there! view
• 4 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Education:- (a) whether he is aware that there is lack of effective teaching going on in primary schools due to high pupil to teacher ratio which stands at 70 to 1; (b) whether he could confirm that the compulsory free primary education is serving any useful purpose, given the very high pupil to teacher ratio; and, (c) what immediate action he is taking to ensure that teachers are recruited to meet the shortfall in primary schools throughout the country. view
• 4 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when a teachers teaches a class of about 80 to 90 pupils, it actually amounts to no teaching. Half of the pupils will be sleeping because the teacher cannot make all of them follow what he or she is teaching. Mr. Speaker, Sir, will the Ministry recruit enough teachers, so that a teacher will only be July 4, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1775 teaching a class of a maximum of 40 pupils? view
• 4 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, giving the money is rather obvious. It is a well known fact that the only thing that this House can do is talk about deficit in the Budget. Nonetheless, could the Assistant Minister give a firm commitment that new teachers will be employed to replace those who have retired or died through natural attrition? Last year, hon. Prof. Saitoti stood there and said he will use Kshs3 billion to employ new teachers. In the end what has been done is just to replace those who have retired due to old age or those who have passed away ... view
• 29 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I do not know where Mr. Kipchumba is and I have not been sent to ask the Question on his behalf. However, this Question appeared on yesterday's Order Paper and it was deferred. I presume that Mr. Kipchumba did not know that it will appear in today's Order Paper. He waited for his Question to be called out yesterday but it was not. It was one of the two Questions that were deferred. view
• 29 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. When this matter came up yesterday, and Mr. Gitau made those allegations, Mr. Deputy Speaker was in the Chair. He asked him to substantiate. He said that he will bring the documents. Now, since he is here and he made those allegations--- The bank is still closed and people are still suffering! Could he table the evidence as he promised yesterday? view
• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. The Minister has been congratulated because this was his first Budget Speech. I want to talk about tax collection. Collection of Income Tax has improved. Recently, the Government admitted that one supermarket chain has collected VAT from its sales but has not remitted Kshs18 billion to the Government. It is a disaster! We are using a system whereby we rely on the trust of retailers. How do you rely on a person who came from another country to come and make easy money in a country called Kenya? ... view
• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). Sadly, the Minister says that we will get Kshs10 billion for the CDF. What percentage of the total Budget is this? There will come a day when we shall talk about what happened to our Motion. I do not want to talk about it now. The Kshs10 billion is just about 2.8 per cent of the total Budget. What happens to the 97.2 per cent? We want Kenyans to be told the truth. We would like the CDF percentage to go up to 30 per cent, ... view