Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: How does that concern my contribution? view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. With due respect, I would like Sen. Osotsi to take it easy and learn the rules. You can only rise on a point of order, in my time, when I am out of order. However, if it is a procedural issue, then you can sort it out with the Offices of the Speaker or Clerk. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I was complaining so that I catch your sympathy so that you can give me the time I lost through his intervention. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. I was announcing the good news to the people of Kakamega. That our governor, thanks to this Senate, my persuasiveness in the Committee on Finance and Budget and my own drive, is now swimming in billions of shillings. I urge him and all the governors of Kenya to give priority to two things. First, is the pending bills owed to business people. Some of them have died because of debts and pressure from their creditors. Those pending bills should now be settled. We want the fruits of devolution to be enjoyed by creditors. Mr. Temporary ... view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: credit you with the money you want to borrow, they look at your performance and how good your account is. If it is good, you borrow. If it is poor, you do not borrow. We are now saying our big reserve, the GDP, will in future be determining whether we can borrow or not. Therefore, this lays emphasis on scientific management of public debt. It shifts the focus on growing the GDP. I remember the then Minister for Finance, the late Hon. John Michuki approached us in 2009. He wanted us to raise the debt ceiling. I think those days ... view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, why are you smiling? I suspect I have misquoted your age. Forgive me. The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Imenti Central, Hon. Gitobu Imanyara, was hawk-eyed. He spotted the mischief. Sen. Mungatana you will remember that is what gave birth to the famous computer errors. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: There can be mischief when it is not scientific. Now that we are making it scientific, it will be forever easy for us as Parliamentarians to see that somebody is exceeding the 55 per cent anchor. Therefore, I thank Members of the Minority side. I have listened to your contribution, including Sen. Osotsi’s. There is very good grasp of this. The distinguished Senator for Mombasa County is in my committee and he was the first to spot what was concerning us. What was that? We were concerned that the provision that allows the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury to exceed ... view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a lot of loud consultations. view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is exactly what we are going through now. Most of you have your Kenya Shilling account and others have got the Forex account. You have seen if, in the last few weeks, you left your money to be in your shilling account and not in the dollar account, by the time you swing back, you have lost a lot of money. Therefore, this becomes an exceptional circumstance. Another exceptional circumstance is in the event of an epidemic. When I was a young man in medical school at the University of Nairobi, we were taught by ... view
• 8 Aug 2023 in Senate: We also know that external shocks can become a serious exceptional circumstance. You and I are lucky that we are now living in times when we have witnessed an actual external shock namely the war and conflict in Ukraine. It is external; far removed, over 8,000 kilometers away from here but it has affected us. view