Sen. George Khaniri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1771 to 1780 of 1873.

• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: 4054 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES December 11, 2008 Africa (DSTV). view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: (c) I want to table this list. Attached are schedules of senior managers of the KBC, staff in Television Programmes Department, staff in News Department and artists, showing their respective qualifications, home districts and salaries. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: (d) The KBC management is working in collaboration with the Ministry to improve efficiency and increase the revenue base. In the 2006/2007 Financial Year, the KBC was ranked among the best performing parastatals at position eight overall. Annual revenue has grown from Kshs625 million in the 2004/2005 Financial Year, to Kshs971 million during the 2007/2008 Financial Year. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: The Ministry intends to work hand in hand with the KBC to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting and achieve transformation from medium wave to FM transmission. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: The KBC is appealing to the Government to take over repayment of the Japanese (OECF) Loan without seeking any future refund from the KBC; and, grant the KBC financial bail-out to settle all outstanding debts and to fully fund the public broadcasting budget of about Kshs1 billion per year consistently on an annual basis, so that the KBC can meet its broadcasting mandate. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The information I have is that all expenditures that the KBC incurs, like the ones he has quoted, are approved by the Board of Directors of the December 11, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4055 KBC. I want to agree with the hon. Member that all is not well at the KBC. From the time this Question was filed, I have done a lot of consultations. I have a lot of information from different sources, even from the KBC itself, members of staff and from hon. Members who are here. I want to agree that all is ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have given an undertaking to the House that even we, as a Ministry, reckon that there is a problem that has to be rectified. I have given an undertaking to this House that we will dig into these issues. I have also given an undertaking that I will report back to this House, the findings of our investigations. I have also gone further to encourage the Departmental Committee concerned to do their bit. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is information which I have to verify as the hon. Member said, otherwise, the list I was given is the one I laid on the Table. As I said, this is part of the information we want as we investigate the KBC as a Ministry. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you heard me clearly, I never asked this House to take action against the KBC. I said that the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communications and Public Works is charged with the oversight responsibility over state corporations under my Ministry. I said that the Committee is at liberty to conduct parallel investigations as we conduct ours at the Ministry and then we can look at the both reports. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will go by what I said initially; about forming a Ministerial committee. I will do this before the close of the year. I promise that I will take action as soon as we get a report from this particular committee. view