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• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Thank you for giving me time. I do not want to appear to be raising issues on this but I have a very fundamental issue which I want to come to the Floor. view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on Tuesday night the House Business Committee (HBC) agreed that we shall be considering the Appropriation Bill this morning only on condition that the estimates as approved by Parliament are republished or reprinted. As it were, that has not been done. view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Secondly, I am convinced as minuted in the resolutions of the HBC that the Appropriation Bill must reflect word for word, letter for letter, the approved estimates by Parliament. The Minister has said that we have implemented that and I want to commend him for attempting to comply with the provisions of the law. My concern is fundamental and this is a precedent setting moment for this country. We want to pass this Bill. We want to give the Government money but without the reprinted estimates, everything the Minister has told the House cannot be believed. view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the HBC the Minister for Agriculture said that she even went to the Minister to complain that she heard from a third party that in her budget one item which is the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) - we are an agricultural country - Parliament passed Kshs1 billion and somebody in Treasury reduced it to Kshs300 million without the authority of Parliament. This is fundamental. In the HBC, where the substantive Speaker was and we had one yesterday, the Speaker said that the only tenable position is when this House has in front of it printed ... view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I was only going to say that you realize that the Appropriation Bill is normally not subject to the Committee. Now that you have made the order, I will only request that you sanction both the Budget Committee and the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade to sit together, so that they can move with speed. view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a saying that if it smells like a skunk, there must be a skunk or it must be a skunk. When this accident happened the Government Officials, the Prime Minister and the fraternity of the Government said that we should not rush into speculations and that they would conduct a thorough investigation to reassure Kenyans or to give them the truth underlying this crash. This country has seen many deaths which have never been explained. This country, including this Government, has conducted many investigations including the one for Grand Regency. The other Government conducted ... view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The hon. Minister came to the House and said that he wanted to update us. He said that after he did so he would be able to take questions, which questions he is not even answering. I would ask you to tell the Minister not to play with this case and the fears of Kenyans. We are talking of a scenario where six Kenyans unnecessarily lost their lives. It could have been avoided! view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Minister has made an allegation or has informed the House that the family was consulted. I have just received a message from a family member of hon. George Saitoti that they were not consulted. That is good information. He needs to know that the family is not feeling good about it. I have the text message. view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for issuing directions over this issue of the report of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I only wanted to say or ask that, when we do these reports, some of the issues that bring controversies in this House, or which lead us to ask you for directions, could be avoided at the clerical level or Committee level. I feel that much of the time we ask you to rule on issues which we could avoid in the main Chamber. In saying so, ... view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I stand to fully support the Memorandum from the President. But in supporting, I want to disagree with everybody who seems to think that the President is trying to misuse the rule of sub judice. I want to thank the Attorney-General for being smart because had this thing come any other way, it could have been amended and mutilated to mean the same thing. I want to say that you are smart because there were several other recommendations that the President could have made. You are a good adviser to the President on this one. Lastly, ... view