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• 23 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the issue of the BVR is one that benefits this House if it is sorted out. In fact, in my language, they always say that the person who poops is always ready to fight. That is a saying in my language. Anybody who is jittery that I am asking about the irregularities which the Supreme Court, the last court of the land, found, with the procurement of the BVR is certainly out of order. I want to ask you not to be intimidated to get into matters which have already been dealt with by the substantive Speaker. ... view
• 23 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I second. view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker, Sir. I think hon. Sebesh--- view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: Shebesh! I am a Luo. You can excuse me for that. view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Shebesh is in order to move the amendment. However, we cannot run this House like a market. We were 28 Members in a committee that was chaired by you. A question has been raised by hon. Members: Why did we reject this particular lady? The Leader of the Majority Party was given a chance to answer, but he never did so. I personally cannot agree that the blabbering by the Leader of the Majority Party carried the whole of the Committee along. It looks bad. We are here and we want to say why we rejected the name before ... view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I rose on that point of order because--- view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I was not impressed by the Mover of the report, the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader. I have been in this House for ten years and I have seen people’s names go down or people go down with Committee reports, and I do not wish to be one of them. view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: We conducted this vetting in full view of the public at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). Hon. A.B. Duale has rightly said that with regard to Ms. Kandie, we received an affidavit saying that she was involved in a scam to do with funds for women and this was in public. We cannot debate this report without telling the House that, or giving the House a copy of that affidavit. That affidavit was not enough for Members of this Committee to reject Phyllis Kandie. There were criteria that we used. One of the criterion why Ms. Phyllis Kandie was ... view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: In full view of the camera, Ms. Kandie was asked to tell us her understanding. She even said that Kenya was part of the configuration of SADC, which is in Southern Africa. It is good to put it on record because it is in the HANSARD. So, we asked ourselves how we were going to have this lady in charge of commerce if she did not even know our own trade configurations as a country. view
• 14 May 2013 in National Assembly: On tourism, the lady said that Kenya did not need many tourists but it needed fewer well-paying tourists and we asked ourselves, are the hotels going to be closed when she becomes the Cabinet Secretary for Tourism, or are we going to lose employment? She did not seem to understand what she was going to do in that docket. Everybody was unanimous until yesterday when there was an attempt by all of us to try to do what the House is trying to do. We still deliberated on this for about five hours. view