Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support the request that the matter be stood down. However, it will help us if before we interrogate the statement, you will have given us in advance the full list of all the integrated IDPs in the same manner that you have done for Murang’a County. It is also important that you give us the list of the pieces of land which the IDPs left and are now being compensated for. It should also be indicating who the current occupants of the said land are. Leaving this issue unaddressed means that we are allowing somebody to ... view
• 10 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I plead with my younger sister Sen. Elachi to kindly pay attention to Article 96(1) which says:- “The Senate represents the counties and serves to protect the interests of the counties and their Governments.” The head of a county Government is called a governor. Therefore, if according to her it is right to remove the security of the head of a county Government, you should also advance the misguided theory that it would also be right to remove the security of the head of the Government of Kenya. That is how contradictory you are. The Inspector- ... view
• 10 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what I intended to say in bold is that this is harassment and intimidation. This is coming shortly after a few weeks ago when the same Governor had his own businesses being closed. Kenyans will be forgiven if through propaganda, they thought that that closure was justified. For the information of Kenyans, a CFS means Container Freight Station at the port. There are many such CFSs and its work is to handle loading and offloading --- view
• 10 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will not go further than that. The point that I also wanted to make was that even that closure was illegal and intimidation. Therefore, this intimidation should stop at this stage. If the intention of withdrawing security is to make us in the Opposition submissive, we are not going to be. We will The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, doping is now an international problem. In fact, none other than Maria Sharapova, one of the most renowned athletes in tennis has been caught cheating. The people behind this illicit trade are multi billionaires. It is not different from drug peddlers who also are after our youth. Could the chairperson inform the House two things: (1) How have they equipped the Customs and Immigration Department by way of equipment and training so that those products that come in disguised as normal products which are then used by athletes are controlled by being denied entry into our market. ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, under the old Constitution, the Ministers and their assistants who used to give what Sen. Kembi-Gitura is calling a satisfactory answer were Members of Parliament like us. The only difference was that they were putting pressure on technocrats in the Ministry to give supplementary information. The Chair should direct that the Chairs of the Committee should not come with the answers as asked but with Statements with supplementary information which they can use to give those answers. As someone who sat in one of the most successful executive as an Assistant Minister during Kibaki’s presidency - successful ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, there are two facts. The first one is that if you go to the library here, the Members of Parliament (MPs) who came from the then northern frontier districts (NFD) were complaining over 40 years ago, about this same question of Somalis being called aliens. The second fact is that Kenyans of Somali origin are Kenyans. Could the Jubilee Government tell us whether they are unable to live with Kenyans of Somali origin in this country to the extent of calling Kenyans “aliens”? If the reason is the Immigration Department, what is the Government doing to overhaul ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the House cannot allow Sen. Murkomen to get away with this. Is he in order to suggest that there was no bribery when he is one of those MPs who flew in the six helicopters that were flying in Kericho County and being paid for by taxpayers? Is he in order to mislead the country or are you a supporter of corruption, young Sen. Murkomen? view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to I invite the Chair to find that the Senate Majority Leader is grossly out of order. This is a Motion from the RBC. Therefore, if they agreed that the Senate Minority Leader will move it while the Senate Majority Leader will second it, all he needed to do is second and allow you to propose it. Thereafter, you could have invited anybody else on the other side to oppose or support it. We know that Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki knows these things. He is doing this deliberately. Therefore, I invite you under the Standing ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to second this Motion. This is a straight forward procedural matter which I see no problem with. I am impressed by the arrival of Sen. Ndiema, Sen. Ntutu and Sen. Kisasa on this Committee that I have been privileged to Chair for the last two Sessions. It is unfortunate that we have come this far about this Committee. This is a critical Committee of oversight. Owing to my track record in fighting corruption, not just among the devolved governments, but in Kenya in general, I make it absolutely clearly that I will be the first ... view