Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. I want to thank the Minister for Finance for having come to interact with Members of the Budget Committee. In fact, that meeting really solved all the problems because prior to that, you remember a session had to be stopped because we raised some very serious objections particularly issues relating to the Constitution. However, after the long and very exhaustive exchange between the Minister, his team, the Budget Committee and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), we reached a common understanding which was based on the fact that we ... view
• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Finance Planning and Trade on the Privatization Proposals of the Five Public sector owned/Controlled Sugar Companies, three Kenya Tourist Development Corporation (KTDC) owned Hotels and Kenya Wine Agencies Limited (KWAL) laid on the Table of the House on Thursday 20th December, 2012. The report from the Minister for Finance was first presented to the Committee in January 2011 with the privatization proposals. However, at that time, we could not proceed because the Privatization Commission had expired and, therefore, the Committee ... view
• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank hon. Members for their contributions. I want to allay the fears of hon. C. Onyancha that the privatization process is a long one and it is highly unlikely that it will be done and completed before the next Parliament because there are quite a number of steps that one has to go through before the privatization is complete. One of the requirements in Section 24 of the Privatization Act is that the financial position of the asset must be made clear. The recommended method of privatization and timetable for implementation must ... view
• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is will be a brief one and I will not take a lot of time. I beg to move:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade on the Approval of Francis Wang’ombe Kariuki for appointment as the Director-General of the Competition Authority of Kenya laid on the Table of the House on Thursday 20th December, 2012. The Competition Authority Act is very clear. It says that the appointment of the Director-General of the Competition Authority will be appointed by the Board of ... view
• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, mine is to thank hon. Members for their contributions. I hope that they will find it necessary to approve the Report because the Competition Authority is a very important institution. If we have the right person in place, and we believe that Mr. Kariuki is the right person, the Authority will play its rightful role in the economic development of Kenya. view
• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, indeed, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to second this Motion. First and foremost, the office of the Auditor-General is a constitutional office which is financed and funded by public money. Therefore, like any other body that uses public money, it has to be audited. Although they are the ones view
• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Vaccines! view
• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Motion and in so doing, I would like to reflect on something. This morning, I was passing a Report of the Committee, on privatization and one of the recommendations was that the privatization of the sugar mills will be postponed until certain steps have been taken; one of which was to ensure that Sessional Paper No.12 - which we are now dealing with - has been passed. That is because no privatization makes sense if you are selling a completely worn down asset because you will get nothing for it. ... view
• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, this House adopts the Report on the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade on Cooper Motor Corporation (CMC) (Holdings) laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 13th September, 2012. This matter was first brought to the House through a Question which hon. Dr. Khalwale asked. The Question was relating to the suspension of shares of the CMC at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. As that matter was being prosecuted, the issue of the work permit of the Chief Executive Officer who had just been hired by the CMC came into ... view
• 9 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is now my word against that of hon. M’Mithiaru but I know very well that they asked me to see you in your office, which I did. I think you can confirm that. I told you about the problems we were having about how to deal with the Report because it was already the property of the House. Originally, the Members of my Committee were demanding that we withdraw the Report and I said that was difficult. I suggested that if there were amendments, we debate them on the Floor of the House. So, there was ... view