Ekwee David Ethuro

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 17511 to 17520 of 17848.

• 22 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I notice that under the Vote Head, there is a significant allocation of Kshs37 million for the Rural Planning Directorate for Research. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I am wondering what kind of research the Minister intends to do. There is also an additional allocation for grants to Government agencies and other levels of Government amounting to Kshs327 million. Which are the other levels of Government because I thought that the Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 has nothing to do with the Local Government. Could the Minister also satisfy this ... view
• 22 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, this is the vote on grant from Government agencies--- view
• 22 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I want to agree. This is an accumulation from Government agencies. I did the totalling myself. I had prepared these notes much earlier. I can let him go on this one. view
• 22 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, still on the same Head, and I am getting this one right, Item 1320100 - Grants from International Organizations - Cash through Exchequer; and, Item 1320200 - Grants from International Organizations. Which are these organizations and what is the difference, particularly knowing that the Government says that it is meeting these from the domestic budget and not international organizations? view
• 22 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, it is true there is nothing under Item 1320100 for this year, but there was something previously and also in the projected Estimates. So, it is not enough to say that it is not there. Secondly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is Item 1320200 which definitely has Kshs4,411,400. Could he, please, explain that? He is very happy when it is nil, but when there is something, he conveniently forgets. view
• 16 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: asked the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security:- (a) whether he could table the names and home districts of drivers employed by the Government between October and December, 2007, in Turkana Central District; (b) which criteria was applied in the employment of these drivers; and, (c) how many trained drivers are from Turkana Central District. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is only a small bit of this Question that needed to be answered. I would like to ask the Minister to concentrate on the fate of the seven qualified Turkana drivers. view
• 16 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this was a follow-up Question. I was doing the Assistant Minister a favour by asking him to confirm to the House, if he had anything to confirm, about the seven qualified Turkanas who were not employed. Now he is telling the House that we were ambushing the interview venue. He confirmed that 43 people had applied for the job and out of them, 17 were short-listed and interviewed. Out of the 17, only eight were taken. There were seven qualified Turkanas. How come the qualified local people were not taken and other seven from outside were ... view
• 16 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: So, they were coming to vote! view
• 16 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Chair can do much more than allowing an Assistant Minister to go scot-free with an unsatisfactory answer. view
• 16 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, having considered your ruling, this employment of drivers was done in a fraudulent manner. Parliament cannot allow fraudulent recruitment to be sustained. The Assistant Minister has just said that some of these people were born in Turkana. In part "(a)" of the Question, I asked him to table the names and the home districts of the drivers in order to address that kind of concern. It is only one person whose home district is Turkana Central. The rest are not original Turkanas. What is the point of the Assistant Minister advertising for drivers in Turkana if ... view