Billow Kerrow

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Dec 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On the same issue of the Statement, I want your guidance on this issue. There is the Petition that has sought to address the same issues as the Statement which was requested. When we were there on Monday, the officers of the county government where we were trying to get the information were equally perplexed because there is a Statement and a Petition. I thought that if there is a Petition, it is better to execute the Petition rather than, again, issue a Statement on the same thing. What is the guidance? ... view
• 3 Dec 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On the same issue of the Statement, I want your guidance on this issue. There is the Petition that has sought to address the same issues as the Statement which was requested. When we were there on Monday, the officers of the county government where we were trying to get the information were equally perplexed because there is a Statement and a Petition. I thought that if there is a Petition, it is better to execute the Petition rather than, again, issue a Statement on the same thing. What is the guidance? ... view
• 3 Dec 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to appeal to the Senator for Kakamega to expand his request because this similar exercise was carried out in Nairobi and Mombasa and there have been questions raised about the effectiveness of the registries after that exercise was carried out. He should include an audit on the registries that have already been modernized or digitalized in Mombasa and Nairobi to see whether there was actually an impact because the public who have been going there and lining up have been complaining in the media that they have not seen any significant change. view
• 3 Dec 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to appeal to the Senator for Kakamega to expand his request because this similar exercise was carried out in Nairobi and Mombasa and there have been questions raised about the effectiveness of the registries after that exercise was carried out. He should include an audit on the registries that have already been modernized or digitalized in Mombasa and Nairobi to see whether there was actually an impact because the public who have been going there and lining up have been complaining in the media that they have not seen any significant change. view
• 2 Dec 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Following the point of order by Sen. Orengo, I would seek your guidance if, indeed, what Sen. Wetangula said that the RBC might be considering deferring the adjournment. If that is on the cards, then it may not be necessary to have the morning meetings because we will have other sessions. Could he clarify that, that is, indeed, what they want to do? view
• 2 Dec 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The issue of security is a very serious matter. As leaders in this country and Senators, foremost as political leaders in this country, it behooves us at this time when there is a crisis - whoever is the President is not the issue. It is time to lead the way. That is what it calls for. It does not call for us to talk of some of those things that Sen. Khalwale is talking about. Is he in order to mislead the House that once we go on recess, this House ... view
• 2 Dec 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. In view of the fact that this is Procedural Motion, would I be in order to request you to put the Question, so that we make a decision on the matter, because there are more critical issues to be discussed? view
• 2 Dec 2014 in Senate: Excellent. Could I be given a chance to contribute? view
• 2 Dec 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to thank all the Members who have contributed to this Motion, including the amendments that have been made which will have the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations and the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee investigate the circumstances under which these incidences have occurred. Also important is that they also need to check whether there were failures in the institutional command or operational structure. Some of the things that many Kenyans do not know is that even when the Cabinet Secretary or the Inspector- General may be meaning well, if the command ... view
• 2 Dec 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the issue of community involvement is quite critical. If you look at what happened in Iraq, you will see that Americans had to get some people into their side by influencing the local leadership. This is the same thing they did in Afghanistan. You cannot, just by throwing artillery, succeed. You must involve the local leadership. We are members of Parliament. We have local leadership on the ground. If seven days after that bus attack, we have not even had an opportunity to sit with the Inspector General of Police or the Minister; that shows that ... view