Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Vote. From the outset, I would like to thank the Minister and the entire Ministry for maintaining a good record, and the write-up that has been presented to this House. We know that if there is a October 28, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3047 Ministry that goes through a lot of problems, it is the Ministry of Agriculture. You can tell this by the Questions which we get in this House. A day never passes without a Question to the Ministry of Agriculture. This is evidence ... view
• 23 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not aware of any standard rule. I think the three lottery firms sometimes use the rule of the thumb. They might even receive presentations from members of public including Members of Parliament on some of the causes that they can fund, giving the example of Kenya Charity Sweepstake. There is no one rule that is supposed to regulate what amount should go to charity and what amount should be retained as part of the balance sheet by way of profits. view
• 23 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it may interest the hon. Member to know that this Minister intends to actually do an overhaul of this department because it is possible to convert this country to the Las Vegas of Africa. In the last two years, the money that the Kenya Charity Sweepstake was able to give as good cause money was Kshs87,277,406. About the same time, before they stopped operations, the First Lotto Limited gave Kshs13,404,000. This goes to show that if the Government puts its act together through this department, we can raise a lot of money for instance to support, through ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the House will remember that, immediately after the strike by the prison warders, I gave an undertaking that I would come back to this House with a report. I am in the final stages of preparing that report so that we can honour the word that I gave before this august House. Some of the issues that the hon. Member is raising will clearly be elaborated. In the meantime, I have had occasion to visit very many prisons and, indeed, I want to confirm what the hon. Member has just said. There is serious congestion in our ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my learned friend and Member for Imenti Central knows that I would be the last person to ever imagine, leave alone attempt, to interfere with the independence of the Judiciary. I can bring to his attention the fact that I have received communication from Justice Omolo of the Court of Appeal who has been specially mandated by the Chief Justice to begin to meet with our officers and to understand what has been clogging the administration of justice; in particular the matter of having so many inmates with appeal cases pending for inordinate lengths of time. Mr. ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am very pleased with the remarks by my old schoolmate at Kikuyu School. He is obviously thinking like a businessman. Within the general reform programme that we intend to take, I do not think that the House might feel that, that is unacceptable. He will be surprised that in a lot of countries even the matter of running of prisons is a private affair. We are not into that as yet but we will look at all these opportunities. I want to inform the House that our priority right now will be to ensure that we ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: We had a similar problem in Meru. Just this weekend, I was able to visit Tharaka and the people of that constituency felt that, to move from Marimanti to Meru Town, a distance of about 40 kilometres, makes all the difference in terms of geography. So, a Tharaka who has been arrested and put in prison in Meru can very easily contract pneumonia because of the change of weather. Along those lines, we are prepared to look at the situation between Kisii and Trans Mara. view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank Dr. Monda for that question. I want him to know that we are going flat out to achieve this, as a Ministry, within the framework of the reform package which I referred to. We do not have much time. In putting his earlier Question, Mr. K. Kilonzo alluded to possible deaths in prison cells. We want to do whatever it takes. October 8, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2575 I have asked my Ministry to fully co-operate with Justice Omolo in trying to see what immediate steps can be taken to address the matter of decongesting our ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that was with a light touch. In any event, I am sure Mr. Bett knows that there is a group by that name. It is only that he is sometimes afraid of facing up to them, but this is with a very light touch. The Member for Ndaragwa is chairing a Parliamentary Committee which is dealing with these groups. This House passed a Motion setting up a Committee that will investigate the activities of these groups. With regard to Chinkororo, it was with a light touch. We have some societal problems where, when prisoners are released and ... view
• 8 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think we cannot go that way yet; of using the army. It sounds alarmist. We now have a new Commissioner of Prisons along with the very able Deputy Commissioner of Prisons. Both of them have assured me that they intend to turn around the Prison Service within a maximum of three years. Let us give them all the support. As I said, we will come back to this House with this matter because I feel there is unfinished business. We all need to appreciate the condition in our prisons. I thank the Member for Mutito for ... view