Esther Passaris

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I am talking to the President and all the party leaders who said on television that they support this Bill. Why have you not called parliamentary group (PG) meetings? Why have you not whipped Members? You whip Members when you want something to be passed by Parliament, but when it comes to women issues, you do not bother. President Uhuru Kenyatta was the first one to start the campaign. Let him do what he needs to do to pass this Bill. This is becoming a joke. The Leader of the Majority Party has brought this Bill for the second time. ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. First of all, I would like to say that I support this Report. I congratulate the Public Investments Committee under the chairmanship of Hon. Abdullswamad Sheriff Nassir for the work that they have done. Being in the Special Funds Accounts Committee, I appreciate what they have accomplished as a Committee. They have audited some of the State corporations we are looking at from 2012. They have examined the audit report from 2012, 2013 up to 2015 and 2016. This is not an easy thing for them to audit 21 ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: As we sit here, I am disturbed that we come in here as committee Members and Members of Parliament who oversee State corporations and many other entities. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Health. So, I was aware that KEMSA had tried to write off quite a number of drugs. I also see that the figures that we were aware of are the same figures that PIC has picked on. We are losing so much money in this country through corruption. We are a country that might not even deliver on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) because of ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: We are talking about the NLC and the title deeds. This Government has to stop passing the buck and saying it is this person or institution which is failing. If it is Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) that is not prosecuting cases, the NLC is not issuing title deeds or State corporations where huge sums of public funds were spent are not delivering service, what are we telling the people? We are passing the buck. The fact is all of us are equally responsible to make sure that the taxpayers’ money is put into good use. I understand that ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Is EACC working? Are our systems working because we are high in debt and we are losing money? Every Committee comes in here and says the same thing that we have lost money The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: here. We recommend the EACC to do something about this but it is like we are joking. It is like we have not got it. The country has poverty. We cannot afford to have any more corruption. People cannot afford to bury their dead, get medical care and feed their children. People have communicable diseases because of failures in various areas. This morning, we were discussing whether we are coping with some of the things that are going wrong in this country. We have so much road carnage and cholera outbreak. All these are because we are not fighting corruption. ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Our prisons are filled with people who steal Kshs20, Kshs100 or Kshs1,000. They are locked up for six months or two years yet people who work in State corporations, who steal billions of shillings or squander money without caring about investing in projects that will yield results, are free. view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The NSSF is about retirement. Today we threw out the County Pensions Bill. Do we want to create institutions that collect money and squander it? The NSSF is about people’s retirement and the NHIF is about universal healthcare but they are squandering what they have. Why do they not invest in health? Why do we not invest in old people’s homes? Why do we not invest in manufacturing plants for drugs so that they become cheap? Why do we now invest so that we can see this country progress? The poor say that as long as we continue to do ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I appeal to all of you, as we look at this Report; there will come a time when we will have to collectively get together and walk to some of the parastatals and ask them what they are doing. I appeal to the President and his advisors to put in place boards of State corporations and put professionals in charge. It should not just be professionals because we once had a dream team. You can be a professional but a thief. Put people of integrity in charge – people who care about the vision of this country, the vision of ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The more women we have in Parliament, the less corruption we will have because women are more empathetic towards poverty. Even slay queens are empathic because they are citizens of this country, and they have a right to rule as well. view