Cornelly Serem

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 161 to 170 of 247.

• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I feel that the governor should be ahead of the Member of Parliament. We do not want a situation where there will be an exchange between governors and Members of Parliament when we attend public functions. That is my view. If you look at the level of representation, a governor represents more people than a Member of Parliament. A governor is elected by more people than a Member of Parliament. Thank you. view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, let me join my fellow Kenyans in expressing my words of condolences to the family of hon. J.J. Kamotho. Hon. Kamotho did so much for this country. He came into Parliament when I was only three years old and I got an opportunity to see him when I was about 11 years old. He was a man who had no boundaries in terms of development. He was in my constituency when I was a little boy, trying his best to encourage the youth who were in school. At that time, he was the Minister for Higher Education. This ... view
• 2 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I happen to be a Member of this Committee where this Report has come from. I want to answer my colleague who put a question to me; he was sitting with the Members of Parliament who looted from this country. Kenyans glorified those guys by electing them to this House. As we fight corruption, the Kenyan public should understand that it is not the responsibility of an individual; it is the responsibility of all of us. The land that hon. Wamunyinyi mentioned has been grabbed in Bungoma; the ... view
• 2 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: country. The richest thieves in this country are the guys who acted and worked in those parastatals. If their names are here, the property that they stole is here. The only alternative for them is to surrender it back to the Government and Kenyan people. We cannot have a situation where we have few billionaires and ten thousand beggars who are busy voting for us after we have stolen from them. In my view, if those reports are just meant for the shelves, then there will be no business discussing them. If the House can adopt these reports and they ... view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me thank the Mover of the Motion. Before that, I want to make a few remarks in terms of the situation that we are in, in this country. We have a safer Somalia and a very unsafe Kenya. As my colleague had mentioned earlier, we have leaders in this country who are dancing on the graves of Kenyans. If you watched news yesterday or two days ago, some were pretending and making noise saying: “Oh, Garissa bomb! Oh Mombasa bomb!” They are not serious when we are discussing issues that touch on the ... view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to second this Motion by first making an observation after going through those Reports. I may be one of the lucky Kenyans who got an opportunity to study in the United States of America and I want to share my expertise with the House. The Government should not be engaging itself in business. It should, instead, give that opportunity to Kenyans. Imagine it is even in the business of having grocery stores! What is the Government doing by engaging itself in Uchumi Supermarkets? It should just leave those businesses to competitive guys ... view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: in is something that we have to look into. There is a sugar factory called Kibos, just a few kilometres away from Miwani Sugar Factory. view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: I am telling you for free that those guys are succeeding. The Government is failing and we are failing our own people. The Government should sell all this property to Kenyans, so that they can do business and the Government moves away. view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: We had mentioned about few institutions. The Chairman had mentioned earlier the Kenya Airways and Telkom. Safaricom ran away with the business and Telkom collapsed. We have so many Kenyans out there who have not received their pensions. Whenever I go home, they ask me to ask Parliament to see what it can do so that they can be paid. We know who the owners are. We are not the owners. We gave out the prime property in this country. Telkom sits on prime land in this country and yet, we are not the owners. We are just watching. If ... view
• 27 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: I beg to second. view