Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker, Sir. I rise under Standing Order No.89 that talks about deliberately misleading the House. Is the Member in order to deliberately mislead this House that the SGR Trustee, Mr. Mahboub Maalim is being condemned by this Report unheard? He is not a member of this Committee and the Members of the Committee and other Members of this House know that, indeed, Mr. Mahboub appeared before the Committee and adduced evidence. Further, this Report has not in any way condemned any of those trustees. All that the Report has done is to ask the ... view
• 29 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to second this Motion. I would like to highlight some issues, without repeating myself that brought about this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 29 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: issue that affected the importation of maize way back in 2004. This matter has haunted NCPB for a number of years. Indeed, I must submit that were it not for this House delving into this issue, maybe today we would not be speaking about NCPB as an institution standing on its feet. This institution is very important not just for the food security of this country but also because matters of food security are matters of national security. Therefore, for an institution like this to be brought down by a small cartel of people who have no regard for the ... view
• 29 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Chairman has clearly explained how this transaction came into being way back in 2004. When Members go through the report, they read what we are talking about. I have received a lot of commendations from Members of this House who have gone through the report and have been able to grasp what the real issues are. The company that we were investigating, at the time it was being awarded the contract, it was technically insolvent. The company was given a contract to supply maize worth Kshs.800 million yet its net worth was negative. It is a company ... view
• 29 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it is clear that there was a conspiracy. When the technical evaluation tender committee of the NCPB, which was an inter-ministerial tender committee recommended that this company, which had actually bid the highest price of US$233, be awarded 20,000 metric tonnes the main tender committee doubled this quantity to 40,000 tonnes and also varied the price. There was no evidence tabled before our Committee that, indeed, the company agreed to a variation in the price. So, it was quite clear from the outset that there was a lot of collaboration between this company that was being contracted; Erad ... view
• 29 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, we also note that the conspiracy, as the Chairman has said, went beyond the institution itself. It touched on commercial banks and in this case two particular commercial banks. A bank issues a bid bond to a company to bid for Government business worth close to US 1 million. It gives a bid bond on condition that this company will provide an irrevocable Letter of Credit for that bid bond to stand. That irrevocable Letter of Credit was never and has never been supplied to the bank. However, the bank did not have the morality and the ... view
• 24 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: seconded. view
• 24 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. I really want you to direct the House as to whether hon. Kang’ata is in order to be bringing partisan and party politics on the Floor of this House and the names we are considering are not necessarily on the basis of the politics in and out of the Jubilee Coalition. We should consider these names on merit as to whether the hon. Members of this House warrant holding those positions and we should not be informed of the politics that hon. Kang’ata is alluding to. I do not know who wants to ... view
• 24 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. I am standing on Standing Order No.95 asking if it would be in order, reading the mood of the House that the Mover be called upon to reply. I am also informed by the members of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that there is a Motion that is also critical and needs to be debated in this House this afternoon. I am also looking forward to the debate on the report by the Public Investments Committee (PIC). Will it be in order now to call upon the Mover of the ... view
• 23 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion and, indeed, thank and congratulate hon. Jamleck Kamau for this very timely Motion. There is a lot of extravagance in the use of public resources and, therefore, what hon. Jamleck Kamau has done in this Motion is timely to arrest this problem. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, His Excellency the President is kind enough and conscious enough to use Business Class when he is flying on international trips but you find Cabinet Secretaries who are serving under the same President flying First Class. The same thing extends to the ... view