Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 8991 to 9000 of 9606.

• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It is the responsibility of the Assistant Minister to convince the House that his answer is correct. Would it not be in order that you instruct him to table here, the results of the analysis of the water so that we believe that what he is telling us is scientifically correct? view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister has explained that FIFA recognises the FKL. Could she clarify that it is not her Ministry which is adding to the confusion? If she knows that FIFA recognises the FKL, why are they still encouraging the KFF, which, even if it participated in football, FIFA would not recognise it anyway? Why can she not have an inter-Ministerial session, where she asks the Registrar of Societies to de-register the KFF, so that the FKL can go ahead and do what they are supposed to do? view
• 11 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Finally, could the Minister clarify whether she is convinced that the current state of affairs--- She has allowed the league to go on in spite of the confusion! Is this not dangerous? Last weekend, we had a serious soccer match, which was sanctioned to be played in Kawangware and it almost led to a disaster equal to the one that we saw in Nakumatt. view
• 9 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. Allow me to recognize the good effort that the Office of the Attorney-General and, especially, my brother, Mr. M. Kilonzo, have put in to ensure that this draft is before us. Having read it, I realize that our work is really not too much; it is mainly to support this. If there are few little things, we just want to point them out and my wish is that towards the end of next week, we should have concluded this thing so that we go to the next phase. view
• 9 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: I was reading the Constitution last night and Article 159 caught my eye. It says that the judicial authority is derived from the people and it is vested and exercised by the courts and tribunals. Nowhere in this Constitution does it say that, that authority is either held by the President or the Prime Minister in trust for the people. It forces me to remind all of us that today, as we vet the judges, we must remember that Kenya is at a stage where we must look at ourselves as transitional leaders. We are not the leaders that this ... view
• 9 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: I believe that through this Bill, we have an opportunity to put our country on the fast highway of modernization and civilization. We should take a clean break from the Kenya of 1963. We want to make laws that will be in consonant to the post-referendum Kenya that we want this country to move to. It is my hope that once we pass this Bill, it will give an opportunity to any Kenyan who appears before any judge in this country to feel that he or she is appearing before a patriotic judge who is neutral and impartial. They should ... view
• 9 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is really regrettable that the Head of State or the Prime Minister would, at any point, want to have their own judges. If, indeed, they are patriotic Kenyans, why did we go through what we saw last week? For those of us who painfully came from those parts of this country that experienced post-election violence, we became extremely anxious last week before the Speaker’s ruling because the tension that had started building in this country reminded me that we are not yet out of the woods. So, if we do not conduct ourselves in an ... view
• 9 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Today, Kenyans are staggering under the weight of violence and corruption. If you want to fix that violence, the crooks and armed thugs must know that when he gets his day in court, if it requires that he goes in for life imprisonment, he is going to get it. view
• 9 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: But if those crooks will know that, as soon as he appears in court, he starts ringing his relatives who are connected to politicians or men and women of power; or that he is going to buy justice, you will not stamp out violence. It is a shame that a small little country which fortunately learnt from her mistakes - Rwanda--- If you go Rwanda, there are no carjackers. We do not have armed gangs! In Rwanda, in fact, and many of you have been there, you walk in the country side or on the streets--- People walk there all ... view
• 9 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the same Rwanda - and I was there two weeks ago - I was humbled to learn that in the state prisons, there were five former Ministers – not from the genocide regime – but former Ministers in the Government of President Kagame. They are now serving their life sentences there because of corruption. That is where we want Kenya to go so that if my friend and soulmate, Mr. Orengo---If I catch him as the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), then the best I can do for him is to take him ... view