Gideon Sitelu Konchella

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to enable me to contribute to this important Motion. I wish to thank the President for the Speech which he delivered during the State Opening of Parliament. I am told that this is the last Session before we go back to our electors to ask them to vote for us. March 28, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 225 Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will not comment on everything the President said, but just to address a few issues. First, I will comment on the issue of the Women Enterprise Development Fund. We ... view
• 28 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am trying to say that I watched, the other day--- view
• 28 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me address the observation made by the hon. Member that we, as leaders, are lying to our people. We are creating animosity among our people and misleading them by preaching tribalism instead of preaching unity. We have to unite our people and ourselves because a divided country without peace cannot develop. Recently, I watched one of our Ministers being interviewed on the BBC in London. I watched in amazement somebody reading a statement which had been written by someone in this House or a team from Kenya. There are people here who would bring ... view
• 28 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, could you protect me? My time is running out and I might not be able to complete my contribution to this Motion. view
• 28 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my friend is denying me time to talk. I think he fears what I am talking about. I am not addressing or accusing anybody. I am saying that we have a duty, as citizens of this country and as leaders, to unite our people. We should talk the truth because this March 28, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 227 Government is developing this country. Everybody knows what the Government is doing and many people are happy. Ten years ago, nobody cared about development in the constituencies. I am sure people are appreciating that development. We need to ... view
• 28 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 28 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support His Excellency the President's Speech. view
• 29 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I wish to make an additional amendment to Ms. Ndung'u's amendment because the way it is, it is likely to have a negative effect on Government operations as far as the management of refugees is concerned. It will exclude the responsibility of the Government to perform individual refugee status determination, which is a requirement for most governments who wish to resettle refugees in a third country. While I do agree with the spirit of that amendment, I wish to add that--- view
• 29 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, should I shout louder than this? November 29, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4039 view
• 29 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I was saying that the definition here of prima facie is that a refugee tends to create difficulties in terms of Government management of the refugee status determination in the country. So, while I agree with the spirit of this amendment by Ms. Ndung'u, I would like to add that this should only be applicable as an administrative mechanism where large numbers of refugees come to the country as opposed to giving, under general feeling, that refugees can just be determined in terms of large numbers. view