Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to thank the Senator for pointing out that I was out of order; but, maybe, that is a point of information. I have taken your point of information as being a point of counter argument to what I have said. But my dear brother, the issue of governance is what I am speaking to. It is going to take more than friendship, ethnic loyalty and political party loyalty for us to get the issue of governance right. We must give criticism on condition that it is positive criticism. I thank you. view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like you to give this direction in view of the fact that basically what we will be asking for is that we purport to direct public funds to go and supplement private ventures. This has never been heard of. If anything, for this Motion to be permissible, then the furthest it can go is to stop while asking the national government to create a framework. It is not as simple as that. Therefore, in view, we would be debating a Motion which is almost unconstitutional because the Constitution does not permit public funds to be ... view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, can I proceed? view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the tradition of the House is that when a Member makes a factual statement he should make full disclosure. The hon. Senator was a Minister in the Government that dug these ponds. Could he give a full disclosure on how a decision was reached to dig fish ponds in Turkana and the semi arid areas, so that we can know how they were doing it? He is a prospective presidential candidate. If he was party to that kind of thing, we would have our reservations about making him our president. view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Indeed, I would like to thank the distinguished Senator from Kitui for this very innovative Motion. The sensitivity of the point of order that I raised at the beginning compels me to oppose this Motion until my mind is crystal clear on the thought of public funds. 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
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: President Obama was elected for different reasons. With all due respect, Sen. David Musila, I know you know these things. He was not elected because of his management of public funds. This experience in the US, where the President almost was threatened with impeachment because he was being seen to be playing with public funds is an experience that we could draw from and say, maybe for the time being, we could limit this to the Government creating the framework the way the distinguished Senator has put it in the first part of his Motion, the business of committing funds ... view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Indeed, hon. Wetangula is my elder brother and knows me better than that. He knows that besides bull fighting, I also sell at a very high cost my intellectual property; namely, my surgical skills and capacity to make prescriptions. I sell them and--- view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is for those very many reasons that however innovative this Motion is that we should hold our horses and not be seen to be asking an economist to discharge VAT on bread, githeri, Ugali or bushuma, to be asked to take money to blue chip companies that declare profits in tens of billions. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to oppose. view
• 18 Jun 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I wish to congratulate my senior colleague in the medical profession, Dr. Machage for this visionary Motion. In supporting this Motion, I want to start by bringing to the attention of my colleague Senators and the rest of the country that what Sen. (Dr.) Machage is attempting to achieve and what we seem to be all united behind, is actually an admission that the Government of Kenyatta, the Government of Moi and the Government of Kibaki failed us. We can have all the 47 Level 5 hospitals, but it would not change the status of health in ... view