Charles Kilonzo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2061 to 2070 of 2469.

• 7 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are several cases and, more so, in my own home location, which is a settlement scheme. The intention was to settle the squatters here. If I can refer the Assistant Minister to the particular scheme on page 3, there is Ndalani Phase I, there is Nzukini Phase I on page 4 and Ndalani Phase II. The original people who were intended to settle there were squatters. But the people who ended up getting about 30 per cent of the settlement scheme were, indeed, not squatters. After benefitting, those people became absentee landlords. They have now come ... view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when the KPCU was formed, it was targeted to benefit the poor coffee farmers. From the list of people who owe money, you will find that these are rich people. No wonder we have a serious problem of Mungiki . This is because the parents of view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: lost their money and they cannot even afford to engage in coffee farming. Why has the Government not recovered money from all these tycoons in the list? I can see the Kenyatta family, Thika Coffee Mills; Amazon Motors and a rich former MP with a flower farm who owes Kshs168 million. If the Government is unable to recover this money, why can it not consider writing off debts of co-operative societies? The Government should consider writing off the debts owed by poor farmers of simple co-operative societies like Mavoloni Coffee Farm in my constituency. view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to oppose this Motion. If the Ministers of this Government could be frank with us, perhaps, we would be a little bit lenient with them. We all know that most of the Ministers have booked for Olympic Games in Beijing, but they should not include us in their programme. view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was being very frank because most of the Ministers are my good friends. Indeed, most of them have confirmed that they intend to use this opportunity to go to Beijing. I was only stating a fact. In any case, my friend, Mr. Kabando wa Kabando, is not the personal assistant to the other Ministers! I agree with the Ministers is when they say that they are tied! view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not have much time, I withdraw and apologise. I totally agree that the Ministers are tired, but for a wrong reason. There is jet lag among the Ministers in this Parliament. When you look for most of them in Parliament, they are not there. If you go to their constituencies, they are not there. If you go to their offices, they are not there. It is a matter of flying from the JKIA to other countries. But we should not adjourn because of jet lag. When Parliament goes on recess, the Government goes on ... view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I withdraw and apologise because there is nothing to measure jet lag. It is known that when Parliament goes on recess, the Government is very happy. It is honeymoon time. It is time to play about and relax. But we have always said it is very unfair that you go and sit overnight and decide that we should go home tomorrow. We were here yesterday, even a small kamukunji would have helped. Then, we would have said, "let us agree", and then the House Business Committee would have sat. We have always insisted that we should ... view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Relax. Hon. Members must learn to delegate. With those few remarks, I beg to oppose. view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the Minister of State for Special Programmes the following Question by Private Notice. (a) Is the Minister aware that there is serious famine in the lower Eastern Province? (b) What action is the Minister taking to ensure that relief food is readily available to all affected persons? view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know what interest the Minister has so as to refer to Mwingi and Kyuso. I come from Yatta, myself, and she should have mentioned the lead agency there. Nevertheless, there is serious famine in some parts of this country, particularly the lower parts of Eastern Province and Pokot District. When I visited my DC, he had been given a dozen bags of maize and about 150 bags of beans against a population of about 50,000 which is already starving. I want to know whether this time round, the Ministry is going to give ... view