Charles Kilonzo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1781 to 1790 of 2469.

• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to seek a Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources. I stand here with a lot of humility to seek this Statement from the Minister. I want him to tell this House when his Ministry will embark on resettling the people who are occupying the Mau Forest. This is a matter of urgency to save this nation from a catastrophe. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it appears as if this is a country for the rich. If you look at the current advertisement for NYS recruitment, you will see that one of the things they are asking from that common man who wants to join the institution is a certificate of good conduct. There is a letter here dated 25th May, 2005, from the Director of CID asking why this man has not yet been prosecuted. It appears as if this man is well-connected. He can steal and not get prosecuted. The reason why he was dismissed is because he ... view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to urge the Chair to yield to the request by the hon. Minister because he said that he is not aware. Now that the documents are available, the Question should be deferred so as to give the Minister time enough time to look at the documents and come back to the House when he is aware. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to save the time of this House. This Question was answered. All the Assistant Minister is supposed to do is to table the report of his investigation when he went to inspect the hotels in Mombasa. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, about three months ago, the Assistant Minister was in a very powerful delegation of very senior politicians that passed through my constituency of Yatta and informed everybody that they were giving a very big cheque of Kshs10 million from Equity Bank for the same purpose of buying millet and sorghum seeds. When will we get the seeds from the Equity Bank funding? view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wish to second this Procedural Motion. As I do so, as in some previous instances and cases in the House, I also wish to read the “Riot Act” to the Government side. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as is evidently very clear, even as we support this particular Motion, we only have six Ministers in the House. We encourage the Government side to take the 14 days seriously. If they will not, we will not give them the numbers. There are over 110 Ministers and Assistant Ministers. If they do not come here, we will also not come! view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I support the Motion, I still want to continue reading them the “Riot Act”. Previously, Ministers have come to this House without their technical support staff. That particular Vote has to be pushed to another day. We do not wish that to happen again. Previously, Ministers have come to present budgets here well in advance, knowing that they have not given hon. Members the estimates from their respective Ministries. That will not be condoned anymore! view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we saw it in the Parliamentary Committees, where Ministers were summoned to come and defend their budgets. Permanent Secretaries were writing letters saying that they cannot be interrogated by Parliamentary Committees! view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we saw cases where Ministers came late while others never showed up! So, this time round, if we are going to beat the deadline of 31st August and we have 51 Ministry Votes to go through, it is up to the Government side to ensure that we take the 14 days seriously. view