Gideon Sitelu Konchella

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 471 to 480 of 588.

• 29 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to clarify the issue raised by Mr. Wetangula. I think it is important that it is properly understood. Shortly, within the next month or two, we will be issuing visa stickers to all visitors to Kenya. That means what used to be a problem would be a thing of the past. Therefore, the issue of referred visas, which used to be the problem--- Referred visa regime affects more than 10 countries around the world, particularly West African countries--- We have to do that for our national security. There are issues of human ... view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) This Question was raised in the House in the month of April, 2007, and was to cover the months of February, March and April, 2007. However, the current status is that during the months of May, June and July, 2007, the Ministry has processed and issued to owners--- view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Question was supposed to cover the months of February, March and April, but it was deferred to today, since the hon. Member was not around then. So, it means that either I give details of the whole year, or the last three months; May, June and July. view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: No. It has not been answered. view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my preliminary answer is not what the hon. Member has because it covers the last six months. It is covering 71 districts of the Republic. This means that if I were to read the figures per district, I will have to do so, for 71 districts. view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the total is 1,673,475 identity cards which were issued between those three months of May, June and July. From July last year to July this year, we had issued a total of 2,556,492 identity cards to the people of the Republic. 3048 view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we completed the issuance of all outstanding identity cards by 31st June, 2007. We really do not have any pending cards that are to be issued. We are issuing them as they are being applied for, on a daily basis. We are processing cards within 24 hours. We have the capacity to produce 50,000 identity cards per day. For the applicants who have not received their identity cards, probably those cards are damaged. Most likely, the photographs were not readable by the machine or the fingerprints were wrong. The problem here is that when the Registrar of ... view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is a very good question. Early this year, I promised this House that by 30th December, we will have issued 3 million Kenyan identity cards. This 3 million will include the students in colleges and secondary schools. We have finished with the backlog exercise. We have now started the exercise of registering students in schools because they turn 18 years of age on a daily basis. We will now be going to secondary schools all over the Republic to issue identity cards to students who have attained the age of 18 and above. view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it will not be possible to register as a voter with a waiting card. I want to assure the hon. Member that if I receive the list of the serial numbers of those waiting cards by tomorrow, they will receive their identity cards on Friday. We will process them within a day. So, they will not have to wait for a long time like before. These cards are supposed to be ready by now. If there is a problem, the hon. Member should supply me with the serial numbers and we will make sure that they are ... view
• 8 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the law requires that if you change particulars, especially August 8, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3049 through marriage, you are supposed to show your marriage certificate or an affidavit from a lawyer, so that it is confirmed that those particulars are genuine. We cannot bend the law because if we do, a lot of people will change their particulars today. Some will do so, to engage in criminal activities. So, they will have to do these changes through the law because that is what the Act says. This House passed that Act and we cannot go against it. ... view