Benedict Fondo Gunda

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was not expecting an answer from the Minister from that question. It was being posed for the Members in the House to know what was happening. view
• 26 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the three plots in Lagos disposed of--- However, it was only two of them which were supposed to be disposed of. One was to be retained for consular purposes. At the moment, we are being told that the consular services are being housed in the KQ offices and we are paying rent. Had we retained that one plot, we would not now be paying rent. view
• 26 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other point which the Ambassador raised was that the money raised from the sale of the Lagos property was to be reflected in the 2008/2009 budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ambassador says: “My understanding is that the money will be for constructing the chancery and High Commissioner’s residence as the Ministry does not expect any funding from Treasury on capital projects following the economic and other challenges, which ensued after the December, 2007 elections.” He goes on to say: view
• 26 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: “From what I was informed the sale of the property in Lagos is meant to raise funds to construct the chancery and High Commission in Abuja. There is a deadline of 31st December, 2009 for diplomatic missions to construct their plots or risk forfeiting them”. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the plots were sold and instead of the money being used for the intended purposes, it was channeled for other purposes. view
• 26 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue which the Minister did not deal with is the question of the lawyer who handled the transaction of sale of these properties in Lagos. The embassy wrote to the Minister. The Government of Nigeria requested the Government of Kenya through its Embassy in Abuja, to settle the pay of the lawyer who handled this transaction. The amount involved was about Kshs94 million. The letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nigeria says in part: “That an amicable resolution of the matter would not only be in the interest of existing cordial relations between ... view
• 26 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: On the Tokyo issue, although the Minister tried to justify the amount he paid for that property, we as a Committee, got figures from the Ministry of Planning in Japan. They told us that since 2006 to 2009, property prices in Japan have fallen drastically. In 2009 to 2010, the prices per square metre fell by 16 per cent. The price per square metre in 2009 was JY488,000. If it fell by 16 per cent, we are talking of a figure of JY410,000 per square metre. The embassy property we bought is 1,431 square metres. Multiply 410,000 by 1,431 and ... view
• 26 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rest my case. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, could the Assistant Minister tell the House how a suspicious looking suspect looks like? view
• 13 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I have a few comments to make. First is on the functions of the Commission and Clause 4(c) talks about the functions of the Commission. The Commission is supposed to work with each constitutional commission to ensure that the letter and the spirit of the Constitution is respected. We hope that once the Commission is up and running, the issue of chicken and egg will come to an end. That is because if we are talking about respecting the letter and spirit of ... view
• 12 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as hon. Members of this House, we are not in dispute about the importance of that conference. What we are worried about is its being held closer to the examination date. Could the Minister consider having such a conference rescheduled to the first term of the year? view