Benjamin Jomo Washiali

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 681 to 690 of 1882.

• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am surprised with my colleague here, Hon. Savula. He should know that this is Parliament and there is the Executive. I am talking as a leader in this Parliament. I said if I were the Cabinet Secretary, I would resign. I am not saying that he should resign. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to end there. As I conclude, I want to pledge here that I will join the families over the weekend, so that we can mourn together as the people of Kakamega County. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. 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
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: No. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to congratulate the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations for the Report currently before the House. The Chair of the Committee, Hon. Katoo ole Metito was my former boss in the 11th Parliament. I know him as a man who can deliver very good reports and this Report supports my position. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I have been a Member of Parliament for the last 12 years. In those years, there is no year I do not visit one or two foreign countries. In most cases, I also find time to visit our embassies and missions. I would like to add my voice to that of the Members of Parliament who said that facilities in our missions abroad are in a dilapidated form. view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Embassies are the faces of the country. Anybody coming to Kenya his first point of call is the embassy. That is why on matters of education, it is the embassies that represent us. Even on matters of trade where we talk about how to market our produce like in this case tea, coffee and whatever else we produce it is done through the embassies. For example, we rely a lot on tourism and the first point of call for any tourist who would like to visit Kenya is our embassies abroad. Therefore, it is important we keep the embassies in ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Earlier in the year, I came from Washington DC and while there, I had an opportunity to visit my good brother Amb. Njeru Githae, former Minister for Finance. We were together here in the 10th Parliament. I can confirm that the condition in which the Kenyan Embassy in Washington is even us as Members of Parliament would not wish our houses to be like that. The office has been in that kind of state for many years. I remember in 2008, I also visited the embassy. It was in the same situation. Nothing has been added. As Members of Parliament, ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: country has signed. Therefore, if we sign bilateral agreements with countries that we depend on, there are some things that will benefit this country. So, we need to get facilities. This month, Kenya Airways (KQ) will open up a very lucrative route to the USA. If my memory serves me right, the route was initially meant for New York, but now it has been opened to any State in the USA. As a country, we need to take this seriously. Even those passengers who will initially want to use KQ will need to go to the embassy in the Washington ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise on Standing Order No. 53(3) which requires that immediately debate is concluded either on a Motion or a Bill, a Question is put. As one of the leadership of this House, I have a duty to request you that going by the issues at hand which are that most of our Members have travelled to the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) Conference to discuss the Big Four Agenda, we postpone the putting of the Question. Also, a few other Members are having training which has been organised by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. ... view