20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
With those remarks, I beg to oppose the appointment of Prof. Magoha.
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon Speaker, this matter has been exhausted so I will be extremely very brief. I am just going to note what Members have debated. As a recap, this project is called the Kenya-Somalia Border Securitization Project. It consists of a number of integrated or linked phases. It has walls, fences, ditches, airstrips, patrol roads, border-control command centres - there is one in Wajir - and surveillance systems. It is not just a wall. It is unfortunate that when some Members were debating this issue, they only talked about the length of the wall. I want to reiterate that it is ...
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Defence Forces is professionalism. Their budget might look so huge, but that does not mean that there is corruption or something like that.
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. What Hon. Wanyonyi is saying is quite in order. However, I want him to refer to the Status Report because the issues he has raised are contained there.
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
We mentioned the counties that the Executive visited to benchmark and they brought a report. So, the Report states the countries the Executive visited to benchmark. For information purposes, this project was started in 2015, during the last Parliament. I am sure the benchmarking report was tabled then, indicating the places they visited and the status report. I want Members to note that this Report was very well debated last week when several issues came up.
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
So, I just want to reply and give information from a point of knowledge so that Members can know this was not an inquiry, but a status report. Let us avoid being sensational whenever figures are mentioned. Naturally, security equipment is expensive. Whenever people hear about certain amounts of money what comes into their mind is corruption. I want to assure Members…
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have noted the comments from the Members. Just to recap, the Report has been very well debated and everything is in order. With those few comments, I beg to reply.
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you. 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.
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
(Mandera North, JP
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14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support the amendment. It is critical that the House be seized of the matter that, as a Committee, we wanted the House to be informed of what is happening or what the Ministry of Defence is doing with regard to the border securitisation project.
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