Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Chair. Is the hon. Minister in order to suggest that there is no method of appointing that Commission? It talks of “re-appointing”; that means appointing the same way it was done before? That is what is assumed. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, is the hon. Member correct to suggest that some of us are in PNU when we have come directly through other parties considering that PNU, as a medical doctor, I actually examined it and pronounced it dead? It died of constipation after eating its own children and adopting the neighbour’s. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, of recent, we have been registering members into political parties. You will notice that actually the majority of voters in Kenya do not belong to any political party by the numbers that we have registered. Therefore, those ones can be considered as independent. Therefore, if they have a candidate that they want to field, that candidate should be independent and backed by them. They have enough people to back them. This issue here is the same mutilation that we have been doing but now we have gone further to even mutilate reason. How can you be ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: asked the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security:- (a) what led to the closing down of Namang’ofulo Coffee Factory in Sirisia; (b) what progress has been made towards the apprehension of suspects in the coffee bean theft at the factory; and, (c) what role officers from the Provincial Administration play in curbing coffee bean theft and what measures the Ministry is taking to curb the menace and tackle the illegal cross-border coffee trade between Kenyan and Ugandan businessmen in Bungoma County. view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, due to scarcity of coffee beans, the factory is operating at low capacity. The coffee beans have been smuggled across the border. Way back in the late 1970s and the early 1980s there was a huge smuggling racket of coffee across the same border, and that impacted on the economy of this country. At that time there was involvement of the “who-was-who” in various positions in Government, including the Provincial Administration. Could the Assistant Minister, in his answer, inform this House how many of those who have been arrested are in the Provincial Administration and what ... view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Assistant Minister in order to tactfully evade what I had asked, that is the role the DC of Sirisia played in the incident that led to the theft and murder of people at this coffee factory at that time, and if that DC is still serving in Sirisia? view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: Yes. view
• 23 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. First, that factory is not in my constituency. Secondly, lives were lost at the factory when the smugglers killed two guards at the factory. In the process of trying to smuggle the coffee across the border, view