Charles Kilonzo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: The taskforce further recommended:- “(2) The CID to undertake and complete tracing of assets acquired from proceeds of pyramid schemes operations within one year with a view of recovery and restitution.” That was also never done. The taskforce also recommended:- view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: “(3) The Government to enlist the assistance of foreign missions and governments where the perpetrators may have invested proceedings from pyramid schemes outside.” Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another recommendation on the bit of Parliament, which Parliament has fulfilled says:- view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: “Parliament to fast-track the enactment of Mutual Legal Assistance Bill.” That was published in 2009. Parliament has done its bit. Finally, on frozen accounts, this is what the report recommended: “The Central Bank of Kenya to issue a public statement on the current status of all frozen accounts related to pyramid schemes.” So, is the Attorney-General in order to tell us his hands are tied and that he does not know which way to go while there is a report by a task force of the same Government which they have failed to implement? view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Government is being accused of being a Government without a heart. It is a Government of the rich, for the rich and by the rich. That is evident with what is happening in Eastleigh and Syokimau demolitions. Now that the Attorney-General has committed himself that he will form a taskforce, we hope it will be a formal legal taskforce, but not just a table taskforce. If the Government cannot change, then the people must change it. Could he assure us that he will inform the House when the taskforce is formed and when its ... view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know why the Assistant Minister is hiding behind court cases. The fact that there are no approvals from the local authority, then it is obvious that there should be no construction. That alone means you do not need to go to court because you cannot go to court to demand to construct a house without approval. Why can the Government not use the necessary laws to ensure that no construction is going on? view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Probably the police officers are enforcing laws which we are not using. According to the charge, the youths were charged because they were found loitering without permission from the Clerk to the Tana River County Council. That law was repealed in 1968 even before the Assistant Minister was born, I think. So, how can you charge somebody of an offence in a law which was repealed? view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether you got the answer very carefully. The 11 kilometres actually had been previously tarmacked. He has spent Kshs748 million to construct that section which is 11 kilometres and that was barely two- and-half years ago in 2009 when Thika Road was being completed going to Yatta. Thika Road is not due for maintenance, but this road which has just been completed is now due for maintenance. Is the Government getting value for money for a road which has been in use for only two-and-half years and is now due for maintenance? view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, looking at the offences the Attorney-General is talking about, none of them is dealing with cases of rape. Does it mean that despite the findings of the Waki Commission that very many cases were reported to the police, out of all these 6,081 cases, none of them involves rape? view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Perhaps the Attorney-General is new in Government. These are not rumours. This is something which the Government has been trying to deal with. Is he in order to appear in the House and purport not to be aware that the Government is already dealing with the issue of people who have occupied other people’s houses, and that the Government has failed to evict those people from those houses? view
• 23 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The new Constitution says that the Attorney-General must act in the interest of the public. However, any time he appears in this House, he says that unless the Government communicates to him, he cannot act. Is it in order for him to close his eyes, shut his ears and assume that he does not know what is happening within his own surroundings until somebody in the Government writes to him? The Constitution is very clear. view