Billow Kerrow

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Apr 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to second the Motion by the Senate Majority Leader. I also want to take the earliest opportunity to, first, congratulate all our Senators who made it to this House and at the same time express my appreciation for the Address by His Excellency the President. First of all, I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate His Excellency the President and the Deputy President on their election. I would also like to take the opportunity to congratulate the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for the good and wonderful job they did during the ... view
• 17 Apr 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the way these things are designed, I hope you can hear me. Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Motion. First and foremost, I must congratulate all the hon. Senators who have been mentioned here. With all due respect, they are very respectable members of the Senate and I have no problems with them. But I want to mention one very important fact that when the political parties sit down to craft such lists, they must have due regard to the provisions of the Constitution. The Constitution now ... view
• 26 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think this is a very important Motion. I seek to support it. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, education is deemed to be one of the most important pillars in fighting poverty. To the extent that there is inequity in resource allocation in this country, and inequitable distribution of resources in the education area, what we are doing is not only failing to fight poverty, but we are actually increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. We are actually increasing inequality in the various regions of this country. This Motion is very important ... view
• 26 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: , Kenya ranks as one of the worst countries in the world in terms of inequalities that exist. It is mainly because of the poor allocation of resources to the area of education. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are two main aspects of this Motion. One, is the fact that the Mover seeks to devolve the fund to constituency level, which is a very important thing. You will remember in 2004 when the Bomas Draft of the Constitution was done, the main interest of all Kenyans was to devolve allocation of resources from Nairobi back to the rural areas. ... view
• 26 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: No, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I just wanted to quote the figures. In the following year, we still had less than 70 students in North Eastern Province being admitted to our universities for the regular programme. Again, that means that there are hundreds of students who will have to struggle to get to university through the parallel degree programmes because of their qualifications. Those students will not have access to the same funds that students from other parts of the country have access to. For those reasons, I believe that it is absolutely important that we devolve these funds ... view
• 25 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the current management of CDF has a provision of 3 per cent of the total allocation to be spent on administration. Currently, that money works out to approximately Kshs80,000 for most constituencies. It is barely enough to pay the staff who are currently employed and the rent for the office. Now that you have engaged an account manager, there will be additional costs because of the need to maintain parallel books of accounts. Given the need to maintain other activities, there will be additional costs for stationary, printing and other things. Now, without an increase on ... view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Government is not serious about arid and semi-arid areas of this country, in spite of the fact that at every opportunity the Government has talked about development of arid and semi-arid regions. The fact that it is unable to fast-track the development of these policies, is an indication that they do not really have a serious interest in the development of these regions. So many policies have been fast tracked and developed in the last five years. Could the Assistant Minister explain whether the development of the arid and semi arid areas and the key issues ... view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you heard the Assistant Minister say that the provisions of this Draft Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Policy are already contained in Vision 2030. Is he in order to mislead the House that the provisions of a draft policy have already been included in Vision 2030 September 18, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3969 when, indeed, the Cabinet and this House have not even approved it? view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the moment I am still the Official Responder. view
• 19 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are a few issues I want to comment on. The first is on the powers that have been given to the Commissioner-General and the Commissioner of Customs and Excise in the Customs and Excise Act, the Income Tax Act and the Value Added Tax Act. In all of them, the Commissioner-General and the Commissioner of Customs and Excise have been given powers to freeze bank accounts, seize and transfer properties through an ex-parte application. In other words, simply through an application by the Commissioner of Customs and Excise to the High Court without involving ... view