Prof. George Saitoti

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a substantial amount of money has been factored in my Ministry's budget for the current financial year, for purchase of vehicles. The Ministry is in the process of acquiring vehicles. Once we have the vehicles, the police posts in question will be given first priority. That will happen fairly soon. view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will recall that, yesterday, I did attempt to give an answer to this Question. I said that there were two aspects of this Question. The first aspect was the final report. Since yesterday, I have been able to get the Kenya Gazette Notice which set up the Committee. According to the Terms of Reference, the Committee was supposed to submit an initial progress report on 15th November, 2007. The final report was to be handed over to the President after 12 months. The final report which is, as I said, at the heart of this ... view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will definitely try to do the best I can to enlighten myself. But the fundamental thing here is to make the necessary arrangement and ensure that facilitation is made for the presentation of the final report. view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is true. But I will try to consult my predecessor. On the matter of the amount of money spent, I do not have the figures now. That is something that I can get later. Once the final report is presented to the President, who is the appointing authority, I will move as quickly as possible thereafter! view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, absolutely! I know how sensitive that issue is, and I want to assure Mr. Keynan that I will do the best I can to facilitate the actual presentation of this report to the appointing authority as soon as possible. view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me say that I am very much encouraged by the seriousness with which the hon. Members of this House have addressed this very great challenge. It is all agreed here that, indeed, this menace of cattle rustling has been around for a very long time, right from Independence. Various inteventions have been tried, but from time to time, this issue keeps on coming up. So, definitely, we will have to look at this matter in an entirely comprehensive manner; that is going to require a very big linkage of us in ... view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: It is important that I put this one in the context! view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Just for the satisfaction of hon. Members, we are aware that on 30th July, 2008, there are rustlers who went to Cherangany and stole 42 heads of cattle. We have already sent a force there and its moving in. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this menace does not appear to be confined to one place. This menace is in the northern part of Rift Valley Province. We are seeing this menace in the Eastern Province especially in Marsabit and generally around that area. We have problems with various communities. We are also ... view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to me, this is the biggest challenge I have faced since I joined this Ministry. The first challenge, of course, was to deal with the menace of post-election violence which was tough. Ironically enough, at the time of the post-election violence, cattle rustling had come down. We were not hearing about it! view
• 6 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether it is conspiracy. It is difficult to understand. Now that, that is okay and it is calm, we are now having busy rustlers. I want to appeal to the hon. Members that we meet on that particularly day. We will go August 6, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2381 there on Thursday evening, deliberate on this matter on Friday and, if necessary, on Saturday and agree on the various measures. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am saying this because this problem has been going on over a period of time because of poverty. ... view