Gideon Sitelu Konchella

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I always believe that a nation that has no social justice is doomed to fail. Majority of people must be provided. Majority of Kenyans today live below poverty line. When you saw the other day milk been poured because a Government institution is not able to process it, it shows how inefficient and careless we are. I believe that the new Constitution will empower institutions to manage their affairs. The Government must show leadership in ensuring that systems that address the issue of social justice are properly addressed by providing adequate budgetary provisions. You also ... view
• 2 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: We even heard people who took money meant for resettlement of IDPs. How much does it take the Government to allocate money for three financial years systematically to purchase land and settle these people? Why do we have an eyesore of our own brothers and sisters suffering and yet, we have money which people loot to make themselves global billionaires? This money is from tax paid by the people of Kenya. So, these are the issues that the Government must be serious about. We must have leadership that concerns itself with the poverty and needs of the people. We have ... view
• 2 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: wrong, and that is why we have to address this issue. I am glad that the new Constitution is going to take care of this. view
• 2 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of the environment is very crucial. We know, for example, that we are lucky now we have rains; thank God, because of the rains we have. But we need a sustained programme to ensure that we have rain out of natural design than out of a serious situation like El Nino, which we have seen before. view
• 2 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of the Mau is in the minds of Kenyans today, just like it was before. People must leave the Mau so that it can be replanted with trees. We must have a forest cover in the Mau and other watersheds so that we have sufficient rain to feed our people. There is no need of us continually being beggars. You know what happened during the Ninth Parliament, when President Kibaki was serving his first term as President of Kenya. When the economy grew by 7 per cent, those people who used to give ... view
• 2 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is where we want this country to go and those people in the marginal areas are the future of Kenya. We must realize that these are the areas we are going to expand to. Most of our traditional agricultural areas are over- populated now. So, the more we develop the arid lands; you know, the eastern, north eastern parts of Kenya and the Maasai land, the more they will accommodate a lot of our people who are now saying that they are jobless, because they are not able to utilize the land they have ... view
• 2 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: So, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, these are the issues we need to address in our future budgeting and in the Constitution, so that we are able to move forward. But the most critical issue concerns the youth of Kenya. Unless and until we are able to sort out the problems of the youth, we will not go very far. view
• 2 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security for the issue of disarmament. I know that a lot of people have returned firearms. The Government should never allow civilians to own firearms. Only if you are a registered firearm holder, but not to acquire because you want to kill your brother because of cattle rustling and tomorrow, he will also get a gun and kill you. So, I want to thank the Government for what it is doing now, especially the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal ... view
• 2 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: believe that if they have not done so, then they do not know what they are doing. I think they need to be retrained on operations in terms of ensuring the safety of people, because you cannot allow--- If you want the capital of this nation to be the most insecure place, and then just do nothing--- Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 10 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue that worries Kenyans is that military uniforms and an assortment of arms were in possession of those people. It, therefore, means that those things were not intended for any use outside the country but for the development of a militia in this country. We know the batch and lot numbers of those arms Therefore, we can know the source of either their sale or purchase. Could the Assistant Minister give to this House all the sales and issues of ammunitions from the factory in Eldoret for the last one year? We want to know who ... view