Charles Kilonzo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wish to bring to your attention a matter regarding this particular Ministry. If I recall very well, yesterday the Chair placed some sanctions against this Ministry to the effect that the Minister and his Assistant Ministers should not transact any business in this House until they give reasons as to why they have not been taking the business of this House seriously. I would like to confirm whether that is still the position. view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Medical Services:- (a) whether he is aware that two water tanks at Matuu District Hospital, complete with towers and borehole accessories, were sold without following the procurement process and, if so, how much money was realized from the sale; (b) whether he is also aware that the community has objected to the illegal sale; and, (c) what action the Government will take against the officer(s) who were involved. view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you! I wish to second this Motion that this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on the rendition of Kenyan nationals to stand trial in Uganda and other foreign countries laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday 20th December, 2011. As I do that, it is important to know that although we are a new constitutional dispensation, we still have those within the Government or the country who do not seem to understand the rule of law and, therefore, they are still living in the past ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: For starters, it is important to understand what we are talking about. What is rendition? What practice is it? Extra ordinary rendition and regular rendition are terms which are used to describe the apprehension and extra judicial transfer of persons from one State to another to be interrogated. It is meant to by-pass the law. It is meant to achieve torture by proxy. That is the whole idea. What the Kenyan Government did was to transfer suspected terrorists to Uganda, a country that is known to employ harsh interrogation techniques that amount to torture. What the Kenyan Government did was ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: If you look at our report, just to emphasize why it is illegal, when the Law Society of Kenya appeared, they gave enough grounds and I want to refer you to page four of the minutes after the report. None of the suspects have been brought before a court of law in Kenya as required by law. In the first place, they should have been taken to a court of law in Kenya and thereon, if the court rules that they be extradited, then, let the law take its course. The treatment of the suspects has been in contravention of ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Extra ordinary rendition in whatever form is illegal and it is never done in good faith. America has been the god father of renditions. They are behind the renditions in Kenya and many other countries in the world on the pretext of fighting terrorism, thereby by-passing the judicial system. This is what some former CIA agents had to say on allegations of rendition. This can be found in a book, Barnett of 2008. They said as follows:- “If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prison to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to ... view
• 22 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The request by Dr. Nuh in his submission is that he has the old answer. If, indeed, the Minister has a new answer, it is only fair that he gives Dr. Nuh the answer in advance. If he has no new answer, then he has no business answering this Question. view
• 22 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. There is a tendency by Ministers to write letters to your office everytime they have Questions to answer stating that they have some Executive business, which is more serious than Parliamentary business. They have been very lucky because they have been getting away with the Chair. I wish to ask you to rule that, that should never be accepted - in any case, every Ministry has not less than three Ministers – so that the business of Parliament is not second to that of the Executive. view
• 22 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Government is not being fair. Is the Assistant Minister in order to punish an innocent hardworking retired teacher? The lady was expecting her pension dues but because of corrupt individuals who are working under the same Government, the Assistant Minister is telling us that she can only be paid after investigations are complete. We know that the Government has never finished investigating the Anglo Leasing Scandal, the Kazi Kwa Vijana (KKV) Programme scam and the Triton oil scandal. The Government has never finished investigating anything. So, is he in order? ... view
• 22 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It has become a practice for Ministers to come and read answers from their Ministries on the Floor of the House. Is the Minister, who is in charge of that Ministry in order to come and give an excuse while he is the originator of the answer and he should have done that in his office? view