David Musila

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are recruiting people to serve in the military force which is a security establishment. I do not think it will be proper security-wise for us to distribute lists of the people we recruited. Nevertheless, we will not get tired of answering specific Questions. I appreciate that the hon. Member is sympathetic with us because he does not want us to get tired. However, he should not be sympathetic. We want to assure the hon. Member that we will answer Questions as they come. view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very much in order. I have offered that any hon. Member who has a Question about his constituency, we will answer it. However, we will not be prepared to produce a whole list of the recruits in the country. We may be charged with the responsibility of external aggression, but we also have enemies within. view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will appreciate that this is a completely different Question. The hon. Member is at liberty to send us that Question and we will give him the list. At the moment, we are dealing with the Question by the hon. Member for Mumias and not the Member for Mutito. view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to seek your guidance. The hon. Member for Mumias has asked a Question about that constituency and I have just laid on the Table the list of five people who were recruited from Mumias. I am pleased to say that they are now being trained at the Recruitment Training School in Eldoret. I have just talked about the reorganization of districts. I appreciate the fact that there has been a reorganization of boundaries and new administrative units. Probably, it will take time before--- Maybe in the next recruitment things will work out ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to correct my good friend. I did not say “directive from the Office of the President.” I said that since the military has no way of knowing the administrative boundaries, and in view of the fact that there are very many additional districts and divisions, we rely on the information given to us by--- view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Let me finish making my point, because the hon. Member does not even know what I am about to say. view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was telling Dr. Khalwale that we received a list showing us which division belongs where to guide us in the recruitment exercise. That is the order that we followed. I am not aware of the other issue that he has referred to finally. view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to draw the Chair’s attention to the fact that, that was not a point of order. Nevertheless, I am glad to respond. The issue of whether divisions are created properly or not is not the responsibility of the Ministry of State for Defence. We assume that these divisions are based on certain criteria and, therefore, the population living in those areas has to be catered for. So, we base recruitment on the divisions because those are the administrative units that are available. How they are created is not the business of the ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is a good question and I appreciate it. We only ask the Office of the President for guidance on the administrative units and nothing else. The Ministry has a policy. Last week, I explained in this House that even in accordance with the current Constitution, there must be equitable distribution of positions in the Armed Forces. Consequent upon this, we have set a process of identifying the numbers we have of each ethnic group as per the population census that we went through. On this basis, we are able to know that the population ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have said this and I want to repeat it for the interest of hon. Members; five plus another and another from his community will add up to what that community was allocated. Some communities may have many districts--- view