Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 411 to 420 of 559.

• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: I thought it was for the benefit of the House. view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, following your direction, could the Minister explain to this House why the Ministry of Energy, which receives daily stock levels from the KPC, did not know the Ja nuary 22, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have no option. view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue that I would like the Minister to clarify is that Triton had a joint supply contract to KenGen which is a State corporation. How is it that all the supplies that Triton got from the KPC, that went to KenGen, cannot be retrieved to minimise the amount of loss that we are talking about? This is a Government outfit and Triton supplied to them. I hope they were not paid cash. view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Could the Minister clarify whether all the supplies that went to KenGen have been paid for and that money has already been received by Triton, because that is part of the money that could minimise the loss? view
• 3 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think this is one Ministry in the Government that takes Parliament for granted. We need to be assured that the many treaties and agreements that are being signed between the Government of Kenya and other authorities or Governments are, first, vetted by Parliament before they are entered into. A good example is the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), which has been initialised and is due for signing in July, next year. It is between the European Union and the Government of Kenya. Any economic partnership agreement between the Government of Kenya and any other body must ... view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. In seconding this Motion, I wish to thank the Minister for the presentation and also commend the Ministry in terms of the composition between the Development budget and the Recurrent budget. If you look directionally, actually, the Ministry has done very well in terms of increasing the proportion of the total budget that goes to Development Expenditure. Directionally, I think it is a positive move and we would like to encourage the Minister to continue to increase the proportion of the total budget that is going to Development budget. view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, I would like to comment generally that the way the Appropriation Bill has been treated, starting from the time we debated the Printed Estimates, I think there are a lot of improvements that we need to make. That is not the fault of the Ministry. It is the fault of the parliamentary calender; that we do not have sufficient time allocated for debate until we end up with so many votes and we only have six debated and we end up with over 20 votes being passed by Guillotine. That to me, is rubber-stamping ... view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Very well, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The point is taken but I am sure the Minister has heard what I have said. Having said that--- view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for your protection. I wish to bring to the attention of the House the fact that 50 per cent of the Budget was approved via the Vote on Account. This means that we gave some blanket approval to the Minister to spend 50 per cent of the Budget. You remember we had a very heated debate here on why it had to be 50 per cent because it is the maximum. Every year, we have always given the maximum. In fact, the Minister was not able to justify the 50 per cent and ... view