Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 531 to 540 of 559.

• 3 Aug 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to add to the fact that, I think for the public knowledge, hon. Members are very harshly and unfairly judged. We do not only come here to August 3, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2611 debate. There is a lot of work we do outside of Parliament. You rightly said that during the recess, that is a good time to assess what the hon. Member is doing. Some of us are going to spend three- quarters of that time partly in the constituency and partly doing committee work. That is work! With those few remarks, ... view
• 13 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also wish to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Ojiambo for bringing these very important amendments to the Cotton Bill. I come from a cotton growing area, just like a number of my colleagues here. Cotton was the mainstay of many of our people, until the entire industry collapsed. I hope this is the first step in the right direction. As far as the legal framework is defined, that is fine. But I am still quite worried about the linkages between growers, ginners and manufacturers of textiles. 2098 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 13, 2006 I ... view
• 29 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would very much like to abide by your decision, but if you say equal opportunities and at the same time give no opportunity, then I do not know what is happening. Could you, please, do something about that? Perhaps, you could improve from "no opportunity" to "some opportunity". view
• 29 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Minister for Finance, whose Budget Speech I have had the chance to look at. I believe that there are good things in the Budget that we can commend, and also some areas where clarification will be necessary. There are also some things which may not 1746 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES June 29, 2006 necessarily be consistent. The policy objectives and the actions that the Minister is taking do not seem to be consistent in some cases. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this ... view
• 29 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: I wish the Assistant Minister could listen to me, because whatever I am talking about here are very pertinent issues and we are expecting him to respond to them when he comes here. So, if we have a high regime with very high crude prices, today, where you look at the pump prices and you look at the price of diesel, kerosene and other products which are consumed by other Kenyans are very high, what is going to happen is that the inflationary pressures are going to continue. The Minister has not helped by taxing this particular product, which is ... view
• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister seems to be emphasising the question of the bank having a liquidity problem. However, I do not think that is really what the issue is. We have three issues here. The first one is the mismanagement of the bank and yet, everybody seems to believe that the bank was being run well. The second issue concerns tax evasion, and the third one is on money laundering. If you put all the three together, that is what made the CBK to put up a team. The team came from KACC, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and ... view
• 22 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will support the Motion because practical considerations force me to do so. For the Government to run, it needs money. So, it is basically a ritual. Since we cannot change anything at this point in time, I just wish to comment that the need and the urgency for the Budget Office is compelling. The reason for that is that we would not be going through these lamentations and the Government being on the defence while we try to punch holes in the Budget. It would have been a consultative process right from the word go. ... view
• 22 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the question as to whether it has to be 50 per cent or any other percentage is a forgone conclusion because the Constitution has defined it for us. I think part of the constitutional review process was to look at that percentage. We should look very carefully whether it should really be 50 per cent or another percentage. But that is a different exercise. I was very encouraged to hear Mr. Nyachae's contribution. But, as another hon. Members said, I wish every Government Ministry was run in that fashion. We could have confidence to know ... view
• 22 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Peter Kenneth, obviously, you are a new Assistant Minister! I will take time to help you when we finish here! view
• 22 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: I am sorry, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. If you look at the analysis, the Budget deficit this year is Kshs146 billion. Now, there is an itemised list of how that deficit is going to be financed. I would like Mr. Kenneth to come after this and I will show him what I am talking about. There is an item that shows that roll-overs amount to Kshs51.6 billion. But what you are calling new borrowing is Kshs29.5 billion. It is a question of semantics! Both are domestic borrowing. That is all I am saying. So, domestically, we are borrowing Kshs51.6 ... view