Charles Kilonzo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Embassy in Canada. He is truly a very qualified ambassador who has been sent to Saudi Arabia. We also have a senior civil servant and two people from the private sector, that is, Sarah Serem and Manoah Esipisu who is from State House. The Committee did observe, although they are all qualified, that in the next appointment, it will be encouraging also to see the people in the diplomatic service within the ministry also appointed to the positions of ambassadors. Also, in terms of age, when you look at the nine appointees, all of them, with the exception of one, ... view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Off-record. view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, that was a figure of speech. It is on the same Standing Order. Is the Leader of Government Business in order? First, he is the Government. He is the image of the Government, the Executive arm which is appointing those people. To threaten a nominee who has been appointed by the same authority whom he serves and instructing members of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations to be ruthless and to punish her is to make this House look like that of people who have vendetta; people who are very cheap. Is it in order for ... view
• 4 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 4 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. An issue was brought up and I think you need to address it when making your ruling. This is about committee activities being funded outside Parliament by State corporations, commissions or ministries. This needs to be made clear. As long as committee activities at any particular time are funded by other organisations, we expect when a matter arises, the committee will be friendly to that organisation. view
• 4 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Another issue is that majority of committee chairs do not either understand their work or are not interested. I think you need to have an induction course or act on them. I am sure there are Members who are more than willing to become committee chairs. There are also other evils and it is unfortunate we do not have an opportunity of holding a Kamukunji . We have seen cases where nominees appear for vetting and have already been coached by Members of the same committee. This is very unfortunate. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 4 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Also, we have seen very sad cases. For example, when the Executive touches your tribesman, Members from that community call a Press conference. We are supposed to remain honourable and not that when a member from your community is touched, all of a sudden, you go to small cocoons of tribes. We need to address this issue. Finally, we have seen cases of indiscipline where Members abuse each other in committees. This is not acceptable because it goes to the HANSARD. Surely, there must be order and if the chairs are unable to act… Their names were brought here by ... view
• 4 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as you bring your ruling, we need to bring back discipline to committees. I want to refer to the issue of Members appearing in committees just to sign the register. This does not serve any purpose. I remember I served in the Constituencies Development Fund Committee in the 9th Parliament and the Chair was Eng. Karua. If you came to his committee for technical appearance, he would not allow you to sign the register. The minimum time one could sit in that committee was 30 minutes. Probably, you need to organise a retreat with your team of leaders ... view
• 4 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We were getting worried that the Chair might be in too much sugar that she is not able to see the screen. view