Christopher Omulele

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: I expected the Committee to go a little further in the investigations and find out how COMESA sugar is imported into this country. That sugar import window is managed by the Kenya Sugar Board. The KSB is authorised by law to auction licences to companies that have interest and have shown capacity to import sugar and have trade ties in the region with companies that produce sugar. What happens in the boardrooms of the KSB is a matter of interest. I expected this Committee to have interrogated heavily the KSB. Unfortunately, I have looked at the Report and I have ... view
• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: The process of licensing sugar importers has been abused by the KSB. Licences have been auctioned to the highest bidder. They are negotiated outside the criteria and the mechanism that has been set out by the Act, so that briefcase traders have accessed these licences. They have been issued with these licences. They walk out with these licences from the KSB, proceed to the sugar merchants in this country who have money and resell these licences to these people, who have now imported sugar with impunity into this country. This is what we expected the Committee to do. view
• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, for that information. I have seen they have put “BSM”, which is the KSB. I expected a more robust interrogation of this body because it is the body that licenses sugar importers. It is mandated to keep a register of all importers of sugar into this country. This is the body that is mandated to keep a record of all the sugar that is imported into this country. It is expected to bring before this House, every year, a record showing the shortfall, the deficit and what was imported into this country by company ... view
• 11 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak on this well done Report. It is my desire to congratulate this Committee for a job well done. This is a well-put together Report. It is a sad manifestation of the state of our nation today. This Report is a litany of lamentations of corruption carried out on a large scale in our country although in this case it happened in the amphitheatre of the Judiciary. If you look at this Report, you will wonder whether the Judiciary, being the arbitrator in matters where people are at ... view
• 11 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have looked at this and we all know what is happening in that amphitheatre of the Judiciary specifically, in the JSC. We know today for a fact that one of the judges who sits in one of the highest courts in this country - the Supreme Court - will go on trial when the President constitutes a tribunal on allegations of corruption. If The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 11 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: you look at the way the JSC is constituted today taking into consideration what the Chairman of the PAC, Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo has stated here today, you will find that the JSC is on trial. view
• 11 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: You will be worried if you look at the composition of the JSC. If you also look at the members of the JSC, you will find that some members who appeared in the case and are imbued in these allegations of corruption have been sitting in that Commission. This is the case and yet they stand there today to arbitrate and make decisions regarding their employees. These judges are employees of the JSC. If one of the members of this Commission also appears before this tribunal, courts and the Supreme Court and represents a client and then crosses to sit ... view
• 11 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: If you are keen, you will find that practising advocates before these courts also purport to act for institutions in which some people who have been mentioned adversely in matters that are appearing before that JSC, an institution they head, are alleged to be key players in this game of corruption. You will also find that they are acting for these institutions. For a fact, I am not afraid of mentioning that some people who sit in the JSC act for the Nairobi City County. They have acted in such mundane or simple matters but today I am not afraid ... view
• 11 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: We must act as one nation. We must say no! There must be a point where we must say “Let us stop here. Corruption is going to destroy this country.” The Pope was here and he told us that corruption is a cancer that is going to destroy this country. We sit here, look at this Report and the letters and say that because a certain name looks like it is from my place, it should not be there. That should not be the case in this situation. We must start with this Report by registering our indignation against corruption ... view
• 11 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: I thank my brother, Hon. Gumbo and his Committee for a superb job. They have clearly set the ball rolling for this House and set the record straight this year. We must put the blame exactly where it belongs. The blame must go where it belongs. The people, who orchestrated and performed this corruption in the highest institution that arbitrates between Kenyans when they disagree, must be held responsible. We must clean the JSC. This is an indictment of the JSC. I stand here to support this Report in its entirety. One must come out clean, if he is to ... view