Francis Baya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 111 to 120 of 186.

• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, like I said before, I am not aware of any apart from those in the military from the two countries. There is a procedure and the information is forwarded beforehand. Maybe, this is the reason why at the counter, you may see them perhaps, walk through without undergoing some checks. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Assistant Minister has continued to mislead the House. All we have asked the Assistant Minister to confirm is: In future, will all officers exempted from visa requirements merely identify themselves by putting their fingers on the biometric test and allow the immigration officer to look at their picture in order to identify them? The Government of the USA has even strip-searched our Ministers and yet we go out of our way to allow these people to walk into the country as if this is their own country. They are, in ... view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not aware of that. However, I am ready to conduct investigations on this matter. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: No, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did not get the question, but let me inform the hon. Member that since I came back from India, I have never got out of this country. view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I gave the statistics. The issue of asking for the details is not clear as to whether the Member wanted the names. The names are normally posted at the District Commissioner’s and the chiefs’ offices to make sure that the residents of those locations know who has applied for what. The list of the names is in those offices, but if the Member so wishes, I can bring this list sometime next week. view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is true that out of hardships, some Kenyans joined refugees in the camps. But this is an issue that we have been trying to sort out. As long as they come out, the issue will be sorted out. The vetting committees are locationally based. If these people are positively identified--- view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if those who have been captured in the refugee database volunteer, and are positively identified, they will be given back their identification cards. Of course, they will be welcome back, because they came from the locations where the vetting committees are based. view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is true that despite the good job that is done by most of the vetting committees, sometimes applicants on the vetting committees’ lists are rejected because of two reasons. First, there are those people who went to live in refugee camps to be supplied with food and some little cash. Such persons are registered as refugees. We have an automated fingerprints identification system. When the fingerprints of such persons are put into our machines, they are recognised as refugees. So, that is one of the reasons as to why some names are rejected at the ... view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to inform the hon. Member that the guidelines that are being used in the North Eastern Province were not made specifically for that province. They were made for border districts and cities like Nairobi and Mombasa, where there are so many nationalities that we have to be very careful if we are to capture only Kenyans. So, they are not vetting procedures that are applicable in only one particular area. The only qualification for their use is that an area has to be a border district. view