Gideon Sitelu Konchella

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I must voice two things: One is on Article 28. We should not have talked of charging somebody but rather conviction. So I am surprised why a senior counsel should avoid something like this because you are innocent until proven guilty. view
• 19 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other one is the issue of five years experience. I want to put it on record that anybody who has been working anywhere for five years has no experience to do what we are expecting him to do here; it should be ten years. That is my point of view and I want it to be recorded. view
• 13 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I also thank the Prime Minister for the answer and the good plan that the Government has for the traffic flow in the country--- One wonders what the Government thinks about, particularly in cases where a lot of fuel is consumed by stationary vehicles because of traffic jams. The Prime Minister is someone who is well-travelled and, therefore, he can see the best practices all over the world. In most cities, buses do not interfere with the traffic flow of normal road users. The problem of Nairobi is not of traffic jam but sheer mismanagement. ... view
• 28 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we live in an area where there is generally cattle rustling. There has been an insurgence of this problem for the last one month. Almost every week, cattle rustlers from Tanzania, including some of their brothers from the Kuria Community in Kenya, come and raid our people. Some of them have been killed. My people have been alert and no cattle has been stolen from my constituency. The Minister should put a General Service Unit camp between the two tribes of Kuria and Maasai because that is the route of all these problems from Nyanza and Trans-Mara. ... view
• 28 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Some of these service boards are very corrupt entities and the people are being ripped off because of the operations. In our own region, South Nyanza, Trans-Mara, Kuria and even Kisii, the water company that is collecting revenue from water is Mukutura (??) but it is not servicing or repairing those pipes or even adding more water. Kilgoris Town, which has a population of over 30,000 people gets water maybe once or twice a week after we have repaired those pipes using CDF money. Could the Minister consider creating water services boards based on ... view
• 19 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion and commend the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and his team for a sterling job. I think they have made Kenya proud. While I like to talk about the marginalized areas because they were left behind for many years, I believe that the new Constitution will take care of this. We will blame ourselves thereafter and not the Central Government. For this economy to grow and Kenyans to realise employment opportunities, we need to concentrate on major projects. The construction of the Port of Lamu ... view
• 22 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could I ask the Assistant Minister to consider handling this situation in a different way? When these people are being released or pardoned by the President as it normally happens, they are taken to areas closer to their homes for a period of a month or so, to be inducted into the society, so that people can understand their behaviour and know who they are. In that way, the police officers can actually handle the situation on the ground and know who these criminals are. Secondly, could he also consider investigating officers in the police force who ... view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Mover, and also the Minister, for being keen to move amendments to this Bill. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a Bill that will change the way things are done and, in particular, the protection of the innocent and weakest in our society. For so many years, we have had so many children disappearing from homes. They are stolen and some end up in other parts of the world. We do not know what they do with these children; whether they use their body parts or they just go and use them as human slaves. But with the enactment of this law, anybody daring to do what they have been doing, will be ... view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: So, I am very happy and I wish to support strongly this Bill. This is a crucial Bill that this Tenth Parliament has brought on board, so as to assist our people. view