Hon Ali Menza Mbogo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to echo the sentiments on this important Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes (Amendment) Bill. Corruption is not new. It has been there and it will be there. We need to ask ourselves where it starts. We, as parents, are fully responsible because today, when you send your kid to a shop, when he or she is hesitant, you always bribe him or her. You tell your kid to buy something for you and Kshs20 is his or her. Already, we are poisoning the mind of that child because he or ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: The other day, we witnessed many arrests in this country after the President became so vocal. The DCI was given the mandate to arrest people on Fridays, take them to police cells to spend two nights there and on Mondays, they are taken to court. But Kenyans are so smart. We The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: adapt to these situations. If I know that I will be picked on a Friday, I prepare my lawyers with the money that I have and on Monday, when I am presented before a court of law, my lawyers are there to bail me out. So many arrests were done. Governors, Principal Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries were arrested and told to step aside. But what has happened to them? We have not seen serious convictions happening in this country. If I recall very well, there is only one conviction that was done – that of the former Managing Director of ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Corruption has to be fought from all angles. We support the President fully. We are behind him but it is… view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Yes. I forgot the name but that is the only serious arrest of a State officer that was done. I do not remember any other. There are many cases pending before the courts of law, but no major convictions have been done. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: We have heard all the Members here say that about 30 per cent of our Budget is stolen, so if our Budget is around Kshs2 trillion, 30 per cent of it is about Kshs600 billion per year. For the number of years that you will be in this Parliament, you are looking at Kshs3 trillion that will have disappeared through thin air and yet that money is within this country. That money is here. I fully support what our legal expert, Dr. Amollo, has said. He said we need to adopt alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. It is high time we ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: We need a paradigm shift from the way we approach these issues. I fully support what Hon. Nyoro is proposing. It is a very good proposal but, at the end of the day, even if we say a minimum of 10 years, going by what we have now, we have not seen those convictions. That is what pains me. The other day, we were told kila mtu atabeba msalaba wake mwenyewe. Today, Kenyans are saying: “Bring that msalaba since I am ready to carry it.” That is because they know they will be taken to court and they will use ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: This country is very rich. We have been talking about corruption for the last 20 years. If it was a shop, today it would have been closed down because of bankruptcy. But look at this country! We are getting stronger by the day. We just need to get our act right. A good example is when you are doing roads, and this is one thing that pains me. We are Members of Parliament. We have roads that are being done by the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA). We as The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Members of the Parliament are the patrons of the KeRRA roads that are being done in our constituencies. Just ask yourself why it costs Kshs5 million to upgrade a 200 metre road from murram to cabro. When you do it yourself, because I have done the numbers, it costs you Kshs1.5 million. When you ask the experts, they tell you they are using the Japanese costing of doing roads. Where on earth does that happen? We are not in Japan! We are in Kenya and we have to do things the Kenyan way. With the Kshs5 million that they allocate ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Bill. Thank you. view