Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Not too long ago, we had the Supplementary Printed Estimates which were debated and actually approved by this House. The Supplementary Appropriation Bill is meant to rationalize it and put it in the form of a Bill that can then be assented to by the President. So, actually, we have grievances, but we are trying to solve them the wrong way. That is because once we have approved the Supplementary Estimates, you cannot again attempt to go through the back door to amend them after you have approved them yourself. However, that does not mean that ... view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in supporting this Motion I have a few comments that I would like to make. One is that the amount of the Budget that goes to the Development Expenditure and the amount that goes to Recurrent Expenditure, as reflected in the Approved Estimates, is in the ratio of 60 per cent to 40 per cent, which is good. What is happening in the Supplementary Estimates is that the ratio is being tilted against development. This is because the Recurrent Expenditure is going up and the Development Expenditure is going down at the same time. This ... view
• 15 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in compliance with the Standing Order No.181(3), I have the complete Report here plus annexes I to XVI and all the minutes relating to the meetings we held to deliberate the matter. view
• 10 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to seek your indulgence with regard to the matter that was brought before the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade on the nomination process and the nominee whose name was presented before us. I would like to request that you grant us an extension of time up to Tuesday, next week. We have heard from a number of witnesses and so we have gathered a lot of evidence. We are now in the process of writing the Report. We believe that in order to serve the best interest of this country, we need to ... view
• 9 Dec 2010 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 Petition of Charterhouse Bank Limited, laid on the Table of this House, on Wednesday, 8th December, 2010. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the matter of Charterhouse Bank has been with us for a long time. In fact, it goes as far back as the Ninth Parliament when the matter was brought before this House and the Finance Committee then deliberated on it, wrote a Report and tabled the same. Unfortunately, that Report after being ... view
• 9 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am extremely surprised, particularly, in view of the fact that this is a subject that has been so widely covered; both in the electronic and print media; and, in view of the fact that this issue has been pending for the past four years. I am surprised that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance which should have been here to listen to the findings of this report is not here. No single Member of Front Bench is present. view
• 9 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we had about six Members of the Front-Bench a few minutes ago. However, as soon as the Order for the Motion was read out, they all walked out. That cannot be accidental. This is a scheme to avoid dealing with this issue, a long outstanding issue which we must deal with and come to a conclusion. I think hon. Members are prepared to debate it. Let us debate it and hon. Members will either adopt it or not adopt it. This is frustrating. We have put a lot of time and work preparing it. I ... view
• 9 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the various allegations that have been made, some of them which are coming from outside the Government and even from foreign governments have not been substantiated up to today. If you talk about the violation of the Banking Act and tax evasion, the various relevant Government institutions that are responsible have appeared before our Committee and all of them, in very clear terms, have absolved the Charterhouse Bank Limited. They all stated that the customers of the Charterhouse Bank Limited, even if they have issues concerning the allegations, that cannot stop the bank from being ... view
• 9 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, the fact that allegations are being made about customers of the bank, that cannot make a bank be closed. Indeed, there is no law in the land which provides for a bank being closed based on those allegations. Having found evidence that does not hold on those allegations, our Committee has recommended that we go ahead and restructure the bank on the following terms and conditions which have already been agreed between the CBK and the Charterhouse Bank Limited. As I talk now, there is an executed restricting agreement which has already been signed ... view
• 9 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, all the hon. Members who have contributed to this Motion are concerned about one very important thing; the fairness and the treatment of all institutions in Kenya in accordance with the law. It is very clear that the reasons that led to the closure of Charterhouse Bank do not hold today. The evidence suggests that the reason why Charterhouse Bank was put under statutory management view