Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I hope that hon. Members, especially Ministers, are going to make time to sit here because when you look at the Report of the CAG, it is very voluminous. It contains nothing but audit queries! Those audit queries are pointing at the efficiency of those Ministers. So, I am noting very carefully. Ministers who are not going to sit here will be the first to be called upstairs when we shall be dealing with Ministries which have a number of audit queries. view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was saying that we have attempted to deal with the issue of the backlog. I want to thank the Joint Government Chief Whips for having retained virtually all the hon. Members of PAC in the new Committee. That is because those people have learned invaluable lessons during the past 12 months and I am, therefore, confident that the backlog will be cleared during the Third Session of the Tenth Parliament. view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to thank Members of the Committee for their efforts, commitment and exemplary performance in ensuring the successful production of this Report. Let Kenyans not forget that PAC Members spend most of their precious time, very often, at the expense of their constituency time and work, in gathering evidence and making reports. We would like to, since we are all faced with an election in the year 2012, to appeal to Kenyans to note hon. Members of PAC and give them an un-opposed view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it was a slip of the tongue. As they say in most African vernaculars, the tongue is an organ without a bone. I wish to apologise to the hon. Member if I called him a “guy”. He is actually a very hon. Member and a man with a proven CV, having come from the insurance background with flying colours for performance. My due respect. view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: The Committee noted with concern the inordinate delay in availing documents to auditors and recommends that officers who fail to avail documents at the time of audit should be disciplined. view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, under the Department of Defence, we found the key issue of compensation and ex-gratia payments as contained under paragraph 341 on page 94. The Committee heard that the interest started accruing from the time the decree was issued by the court to the time communication was received from the Attorney-General’s office to enable seek authority from the Treasury for final payment. The Committee abhorred the manner in which the Attorney-General failed to notify the Department in time, leading to unnecessary accrued interest which would have otherwise been avoided. view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: The Committee, therefore, recommends that the Accounting Officer and the Attorney-General should be held responsible for loss incurred by the Government where negligence shall be established. We found time and quantified how much the Government has lost by way of either no legal advice or delayed legal advice from the Attorney-General. There are many rulings that are made in court in respect of compensation and ex- view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: payment but the Attorney-General does not inform the Treasury. In the process, we end up with the Government incurring a lot of loses. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, under the same Ministry, in the Department of Defence, we found the issue of lose of cash at Nyali Barracks, Mombasa. One would have thought that senior officers in the army are leaders in the example of discipline. However, when you see how cash was lost at the Nyali Barracks, you wonder what they mean by the disciplined forces. It left us wondering whether they are more disciplined than our primary school ... view
• 23 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to move. I seek for your indulgence to apologize to our sister Committee, Public Investments Committee, because one of today’s news papers has misquoted us saying that they are not up to the task on the issue of petroleum at the Kenya Pipeline. I beg to move and request hon. Mwadeghu to second the Motion. view
• 18 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise under Standing Order No.208, that allows me to seek a few clarifications. The issue of Mau Forest is very important and far much bigger than the 210 Members of Parliament in this House or a section of us who think that part of this forest should be removed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if, indeed, the Member of Parliament represents those people who currently stay in the Mau Forest, the petition we would have expected him to bring before this House, is one asking the Government to move in and actually confiscate the property ... view