Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Chairperson in order to mislead the House that the reason why those children are admitted with lower marks is because they come from areas where there are no properly established primary schools? The children we are talking about are not from Turkana, Marsabit, Wajir or Mandera; the children I am talking about in Kamusinga and Maseno High Schools, for example, are children from some of the sub-counties in Embu, Meru, Kirinyaga and Murang’a. Are those areas where we have poor primary schools? Is he in order to mislead us? view
• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, riding on that directive, we had also asked him last time when he raised it, that he provides us with the statistics-- view
• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not new. view
• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to strongly support this particular Bill. It is so clear in my mind that the press can have an opportunity tomorrow or thereafter to pen that we were discussing about the abolition of harambees. This is not the case. What we are doing is that having found harambee is a way of our lives and having gone through all those good and bad experiences that the people who have spoken before me have mentioned, we now must accept that there is need for us to make sure that the process is transparent and accountable. ... view
• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Sen. Elachi, my younger sister; hold your horses; you are not the Government. view
• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when the Government fails to contain high levels of poverty, people do harambees. They just do not do it in the standard way. We do harambees every evening as we drive home in the traffic jam, where we have young ladies with three little children who do not have food. So, they come to us in the traffic jams doing harambees from one motorist to the other. We are pooling together to feed the poor of this country because the Government is unable to have a policy on feeding the poor. The Government has failed. Mr. ... view
• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: I am sorry, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Being a happily married man, I am used to being pinched many times to be reminded--- view
• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am being very serious--- view
• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on this matter, we will not wish away corruption and harambees. The cardinal responsibility of the Government is to provide good governance. Until we rein in on corruption, we can wake up today and charge the distinguished Senator for Kisii on issues of Anglo Leasing. But to some of us who have had access to sit in that Office of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and who have had an opportunity to go to the Integrity Centre to see what is being done about corruption in that file of Anglo Leasing, we know that it is a ... view
• 10 Mar 2015 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view