Ekwee David Ethuro

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 11281 to 11290 of 17848.

• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Minister for Energy is a good friend of mine, but on this one he will know I am a true pastoralist. view
• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you cannot allow the Minister for Energy to get away with the words like: “I am behaving in a pastoralist manner,” implying that an entire community of the Republic Kenya, which has a big population and occupies 80 per cent of our land mass, is casual. As a matter of fact, the day he claims to have been ready, it is true he was ready. I was here and he was here. But because of the workload on that particular day, you allowed him another day. He has never appeared again. When I was making reference to ... view
• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just wanted to remind the Government side that the issues we are raising are constitutional, statutory and a matter of procedures. If this Government is committed to the rule of law, they are under duty and obligation to look into these matters. I wanted to add to the contribution by the Chairman of the Budget Committee. It is also a requirement that towards a general election the Government must bring to this House a pre-election fiscal and economic report. This is a requirement we endevoured to put in our Standing Orders and in the law, so ... view
• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know I stand guided by you; if I may explain what I meant--- My understanding of curtailing theft of public funds was that, one, if you look at Anglo Leasing it was related to the 1992 elections. If you look--- view
• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, those words you have just used--- You are beating me to submission because there is another point I wanted to make. I will go by those words. The most important issue, which the Deputy Leader of Government Business has alluded to, and which I want to be explicit, is Article 218, under which two Bills are expected in order to make the county governments operational as soon as they get formed. These are the County Bill and the Revenue Bill. I would expect the Minister to go by the same requirement by the chairman; the Minister should ... view
• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister is talking about firearms and households in the same vein. Can her confirm? The Question is about the number of firearms, and not the number of households with firearms. You can have one household with about ten guns. So, he needs to clarify that bit. That is, however, not my question. He said that he cannot talk about this matter convincingly. The Government of Kenya is a signatory to the Nairobi Protocol, which is the national focal point for co-ordination of efforts to eliminate small arms and illicit weapons in the country. How can ... view
• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, in order to move faster, you may need to advise the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives that once he says he is moving the amendment as circulated, we can read the amendment for ourselves. view
• 13 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: 41 Thursday, 13th December, 2012(P) view