5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.
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5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Speaker, you do recall that I rose on a point of order some time back during the Special Sitting. The Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security were not in the House, but today they are here. Hon. Speaker, you did give direction on the two matters that they were inquiring into, namely, one being the question of the Turkish national, on which I sought a Statement on 10th August. The Chair of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National ...
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5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Speaker, you do recall that I rose on a point of order some time back during the Special Sitting. The Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security were not in the House, but today they are here. Hon. Speaker, you did give direction on the two matters that they were inquiring into, namely, one being the question of the Turkish national, on which I sought a Statement on 10th August. The Chair of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National ...
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5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
You indicated that the two committees must table a report before this House. Up to today, neither the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning nor the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security has bothered to respond to the Request for Statement on the issues that I raised on 10th August. Since they are here, maybe, Hon. Wanga can also tell us whether she has begun, on her own motion, anything to do with the pandora papers. Hon. Wanga will be more apprised on the pandora papers than the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health, who is already ...
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5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, it is true. On the day I sought the Statement, the Chair indicated that they were going to meet the Cabinet Secretary the following week, and he would give a response in two weeks’ time. Fortunately, or unfortunately, they happened to be in Mombasa with the Cabinet Secretary and I saw the matter in the media being canvassed in a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary even before the two weeks the Chair had requested lapsed. So, I expected that the following week or the week after, they would be kind enough to bring to the House what the ...
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5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, it is true. On the day I sought the Statement, the Chair indicated that they were going to meet the Cabinet Secretary the following week, and he would give a response in two weeks’ time. Fortunately, or unfortunately, they happened to be in Mombasa with the Cabinet Secretary and I saw the matter in the media being canvassed in a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary even before the two weeks the Chair had requested lapsed. So, I expected that the following week or the week after, they would be kind enough to bring to the House what the ...
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5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, you know Hon. Mwathi is my good friend and neighbour. Besides being my neighbour, he is my good friend and maybe he was not listening to what I was saying. I said that I made a request for a Statement. He has said that he is waiting for a copy of that Statement to attach. Therefore, I said if he needs a copy, I can even
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5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
it to him. That is what I have just forwarded to him. The question that I am asking for a response on is the Statement that I sought on 10th of August. The other substantive matter to do with Hon. Gladys Wanga it is, indeed, true that it was on the Committee’s own volition, but remember when I rose on a point of order, if the Chair, Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, Hon. Gladys Wanga can listen to me, I was aware and I indicated that it is on the Committee’s own volition. What I was trying to ...
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5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, you know Hon. Mwathi is my good friend and neighbour. Besides being my neighbour, he is my good friend and maybe he was not listening to what I was saying. I said that I made a request for a Statement. He has said that he is waiting for a copy of that Statement to attach. Therefore, I said if he needs a copy, I can even WhatsApp it to him. That is what I have just forwarded to him. The question that I am asking for a response on is the Statement that I sought on 10th of ...
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5 Oct 2021 in National Assembly:
I am asking this on a very serious note. If you sit as Speaker and allow Members to either use the Floor or Committees to drive political perceptions, we may as well know we are free to do that and we can use our Committees to discuss in the media and elsewhere anything on the Pandora papers and those who have stashed money out of our economy by investing elsewhere. We can also do it on our own motions!
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