Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: I am on a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Hold your horses. So, the Budget report came here with recommendations incorporating the views of the public and it was passed by the House as a resolution of Parliament, meaning that Parliament having adopted the recommendations of the Budget Committee, they ought to have been incorporated in the actual estimates by the Minister. That has not happened and that is the biggest problem we have. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, unfortunately, there is a big linkage between the two because if we know that we cannot be able to dispose of the Motion on the Vote on Account tomorrow, then is it really worthwhile talking about having a Special Session tomorrow? We know that if we go on recess and we do not have the Vote on Account, the Government will grind to a halt because we are coming back in July. However, that does not mean that we should contravene the provisions of the Constitution. I think what we must spend our efforts to do ... view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will support the Motion provided that we must deal with these issues tomorrow and I can tell you that one of the things that must happen is that we must have new and reprinted estimates. I do not know whether that can happen tomorrow and you cannot discuss the various Votes for the various Ministries unless we have new reprinted estimates. Until we have done that, you cannot have an Appropriation Bill because an Appropriation Bill will follow after we have approved the reprinted estimates. So if that can happen tomorrow, I support the Motion. view
• 12 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to associate myself with the sentiments expressed by my colleagues regarding the tragic loss of our two colleagues and four other Kenyans on the helicopter that crashed on Sunday morning. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Prof. George Saitoti was a great Kenyan. I had the privilege of working with him in both the Eighth and Ninth Parliaments, and also in the current Parliament. The same applies to hon. Joshua Orwa Ojode. I would like to pass my deep and sincere condolences to their families and immediate relatives. While we pass our condolences to the families and ... view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to seek your indulgence. We were directed by the Chair to produce a report to the House today on the matter of the Kenya Airways Rights Issue. We have been very busy with the Budget and we are still involved with it. So, I am seeking your indulgence to extend the period by another two weeks when we will have finished with the Budget process. view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. From the information available to me, these same accounts we are querying here are exactly under scrutiny, currently, by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) whose report will be brought here because the qualification means there must be reasons which have been given why the 11 accounts were not satisfactory. Therefore, unless we want to anticipate what is going to be in that report--- Why can we not give the PAC the opportunity to complete their work and bring the report to Parliament? view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, personally, I think to help the House I would recommend that this matter which involves accounts for the year 2007/2008 be referred back to the PAC because all audit queries or all accounts that have queries are the responsibility of the PAC and they can incorporate the Budget Committee and the Departmental Committee on Finance and we can then interrogate this issue because they are actually very genuine concerns, in my view. That, indeed, if there are issues that cannot be explained between the revenue collected as reported by the Minister, then this must be looked ... view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think I want to support Mr. Ogindo’s observation that we finish the Budget process and then maybe deal with this one more exhaustively. view