Sen. George Khaniri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1531 to 1540 of 1873.

• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to make my remarks on this Motion. As much as I want to appreciate the fact the Sen. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was coming to that. I know it took a while for the Fund to be up and operational and before I walked into the Chamber today, I had a chat with the Permanent Secretary, Dr. Ndemo, and he informed me that the Board was eventually appointed and I think the Fund is operational from the last financial year. It took like four years for the Fund to be up and about because of too many Government bureaucracies and logistics. The point I am trying to make is that there exists a law to push this telephony ... view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a matter that has been legislated on and it is now an Act. Why should we come up with a Motion? Most fundamentally, the reason I oppose this Motion vehemently is the last bit of the Motion that suggests that we urge all county governments to provide budgets to supplement. Development of communication infrastructure is a very expensive affair. I was talking to the Permanent Secretary as I said, and he informed me that for the entire country to be covered by mobile telephony, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Okay. view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me digest the good information that I have been given. First, I will allow the Senator for Machakos to inform me later. I want to say that I agree with him fully and I want to thank him for that information. Maybe another area that we should look at very seriously is also coming up with legislation to push the service providers to share infrastructure. As it is now, companies with more infrastructure like Safaricom, are using the infrastructure as a competitive edge. Therefore, if there was a law to push for these companies to share ... view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me take that information from--- view
• 19 Jun 2013 in Senate: Thank you. We appreciate the good work the Senator did when he was in the Ministry of Energy and there were so many areas that were covered but I think he knows that not the entire country is covered. Therefore, I oppose this Motion. view
• 13 Jun 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand to seek your guidance on the Notice of Motion given by the Senate Majority Leader or by the Leader as we now refer to him. This is in pursuant to Standing Order No.90(1) which says; “Subject to paragraph (5), no Senator shall refer to any particular matter that is view
• 13 Jun 2013 in Senate: or which, by the operation of any written law is secret.” I seek your guidance because we are all privy to the events that took place this morning. Most of us participated and lodged our plea to the Supreme Court. My worry is that it is very likely that we will stray into the subject matter of the issues we are seeking the Supreme Court to interpret for us. Therefore, I think that this Motion has been overtaken by events. I do not think we are adding any value to this. We made our plea to the Supreme Court. It ... view
• 21 May 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir for giving me this opportunity to say one or two things on this Motion. I stand to support this Motion. I want to join my colleagues who have spoken earlier to say that it is high time that this particular Commission is up and about. It has been about three months since we were elected. Therefore, it is time that we formed this PSC, so that they can start their work. I also join my colleagues in saying that the PSC is, indeed, our employer, doubling as our union. The hon. Senators that we are ... view