Charles Kilonzo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President emphasized the importance of Kenya as a unitary State. Those who are advocating that the Coast is not Kenya should put their case but they should remember that even the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka attempted that and it never worked. At the end of the day they had to go to the negotiating table. My advice to the Mombasa Republic Council (MRC) is to form a political party and bring the matter to the House. If this is allowed, you can imagine Turkana saying: “Turkana si Kenya” because there is oil. Kitui ... view
• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: However, in the same speech and I quote what the President said:- “I call upon Members of Parliament to work closely with the Executive to ensure that all necessary laws are passed on time.” However, it is Parliament which has been working closely with the Executive. The Executive has not been working closely with Parliament. This has been very evident in the delay in bringing these laws to Parliament. This particular statement was misdirected. This is something which should have been told to the Cabinet; that they should work closely with Parliament or perhaps he should have said: “I have ... view
• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on civic education, the President emphasized the importance of having massive civic and voter education to educate people on the new Constitution and the electoral system. However, you remember the last time we had a referendum in Kisumu, when the defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) went to do civic education, the citizens of Kisumu said that they had been told that if one person has read the Constitution then that was enough. Politicians should not be the ones doing civic education because they will read the law selectively to favour what they want to ... view
• 2 May 2012 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs:- (a) why Kenya does not have its own premises for the High Commission in Uganda, considering that Uganda is Kenya’s biggest trading partner; and, (b) what plans the Ministry has to acquire such premises. view
• 2 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wish to ask the Chair to take action on the both sides of the House for Members who have failed to come to the House to ask Questions and for the Government, which is most notorious, for failing to come to answer Questions. I also suggest that we scrap the second round of Questions and instead we be taking action against on both the Members and the Ministers who fail to appear in the House. view
• 2 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is not the first time the Question has been deferred. So, just to plead with the Chair, in all fairness, if it can still come tomorrow. view
• 2 May 2012 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs:- view
• 2 May 2012 in National Assembly: (a) Why Kenya does not have its own premises for the High Commission in Uganda, considering that Uganda is Kenya’s biggest trading partner; and, view
• 2 May 2012 in National Assembly: (b) What plans the Ministry hast to acquire such premises. view
• 2 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not been allocated any money in the current and also in the coming Budget. So, as a Government, as opposed to pushing the blame to Treasury, is the Government committed to taking Uganda as one of our major and strategic partner in this region bearing in mind that we have missions in countries of lesser importance where we have put up huge structures; for example, Namibia. We have missions in other countries which even a Committee of Parliament has commented they are not necessary, like Iceland. So, is the ... view