Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Allow me to speak on the issue of corruption and procurement. I have found in my four years in Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the beginning of corruption is at procurement. It is such that if an investor must win a tender, he must set aside some funds which he will spend on the tender committee. Our poor youth have no such slash funds which they can keep aside for purposes of paying 10 per cent to the procurement committee, the tender committee and the balance to do the actual investment. It is important that this law passes because we ... view
• 29 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. Whereas I respect my brother’s contribution, is he in order to mislead the House that we cannot create a statute that gives room to preferential treatment to certain groups when he knows that the very Constitution of Kenya deliberately goes out of its way to create that kind of preferential treatment for the sake of affirmative action? Is he in order to do that? view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir--- view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to support this Petition and kindly plead with this National Assembly that it is the last hope for the people of Nasewa in Busia on this matter. This is because some powerful people in this country, who come from the old school of Moi politics, have actually been fighting this community and aiding the illegal process of denying the locals a chance to enjoy this property. Our only hope is this House. I support. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Attorney- General has a lot of respect for the judicial arm of this Government, and he knows that this is not a banana republic. The task force, which cost the taxpayer a lot of money to come up with this report realised that there was room in which the Attorney-General would move on the properties that were purchased with the proceeds of the investments of the people who were conned in these pyramid schemes. The task force, on page 18 of its report, tells the Attorney-General the name of the company, the ... view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my point of order is only to insist that I wanted the Attorney-General to respond to the issue of restitution, and he says he is helpless. Is he in order to hide behind issues of faith about being helpless and so on, when we know that this House passed the Organized Crimes Act which, amongst other things, provides that proceeds from organized crime can actually be secured by this Government so as to restitute these people? view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, a few years ago a student by the name of Solomon Muruli from my community went through the same process until he eventually died. Again, this student is from my community, and the Assistant Minister seems to take the evidence at hand to be non-committing. We already have pangas which have finger prints, the voice of the man, and the Statement from the victim, Mr. Natembeya. Why is he not arresting these people; little students who cannot be difficult for him to get, although he claims that they have gone underground? view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the loss the Minister has told us of Kshs2.8 million a day translates roughly to Kshs1.1 billion a year. We find it very difficult to believe him because just a few months ago, he was all over this place running helter skelter that we give him our okay so that he could then offer concessioning for Uhuru Highway. Nothing has happened! He has never bothered to come to the House to explain why the concessioning project has not taken off. Could we believe him? Is he telling us that he cannot put an earth road on the ... view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Our surprise is that for the last two weeks when this matter has failed to take off, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government has all along been here. We were thinking that the reason why we were waiting was because we wanted to hear it from the horse’s mouth. What has certainly happened that has caused the Prime Minister to think that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government is now fit to represent him when for the last 14 days he found that he was not ... view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The week before last week, after I asked for a Ministerial Statement from the Prime Minister in respect of the printing of Kenya currency, you directed that he comes and answers. He wrote a letter last week and said that he was sending the matter to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. The Chair ruled last week that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance should come and respond today but he has not come. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the nature of the Question is such that the country is ... view