All parliamentary appearances
Entries 1001 to 1010 of 1730.
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what we have been treated to today is a case of double standards. This is because we have had young Kikuyu men---
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am going to do that. I will do so, but I need to lay the basis for it.
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have had young Kikuyu men who were associated with the outlawed Mungiki sect. They were shot all over senselessly and never given an opportunity to the point where their leader was jailed. The Prime Minister did mention that the MRC is in violation of Articles 4 and 10 of the Constitution. Could he inform this House whether anyone within the MRC has been taken to court? Secondly, could he confirm whether this MRC was given audience by the United Kingdom High Commission?
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to speak to this Report. I want to start where Ms. Martha left; that it is actually a wakeup call to the Government. To me, this is also a wakeup call to the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade because the Committee is the one that is charged with oversight to the banking industry. We want them to be more robust than in the past because if they had been as robust as this Committee, then perhaps we would not have been where we are, where the interest rates seem ...
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if those banks are not talked to, reined in and the oversight Committee fails to do what it should do, then we will see the construction industry suffering because of those high interest rates. Many of the construction companies may fold up. That will affect employment. Even investments in our country will be affected. I think the Departmental Committee on Finance needs to pay attention as to whether the banking sector is, by and large, supporting investments in the country. Are the profits being re-invested or ploughed back to our economy or are they being ...
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
I think it is also important that we encourage the banks to make monies from other transactions. Equity Bank was a leader in that front, where you make your profit from transactions as opposed to making profits from just charging interest rates. That is because in my opinion, when you just rely on interest rates to make money, it is evident that the bank is lazy in terms of formulation or thinking. The country has been engaged, by and large, with salaries of Members of Parliament. It is important that we also think about the salaries that are paid to ...
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
With those few remarks, I beg to support the recommendations in this Report as amended and again, call upon the Departmental Committee on Finance to do what is expected of them by this House, so that we do not find ourselves where we are. The banks need to be given oversight regularly, properly and professionally.
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the Motion and thank hon. Yusuf for bringing it. I also want to encourage him. I would like to take this opportunity to condole with the affected families within his neighbourhood and from across the country. Of particular interest is that we have 23 year old men who are certainly trying to make a living. I also want to congratulate the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) for what they are doing. I thank the Police Force for what they are doing and, as others have said, the NSIS and the CID. But I would ...
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
is part of the MRC. Our army is in Somalia because the Al Shabaab had become a problem to us. If we are engaging them one way this way, and our army is engaging them in another way the other side, that is what I hold as an aspect of double standard and is not useful. That is what I said. The continued stay in camps of Kikuyus--- That is because the camps we call IDP camps, ideally, 90 per cent of the occupants are Kikuyus. The continued stay of those people in camps is also another fertile breeding ground. ...
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14 Mar 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I led the Select Committee that dealt with these unlawful grouping. That Report is a public document which was accepted by this House. We talked about all these issues that are now coming up then. So, it is important that even those in the Government also pay attention to some of the recommendations that are carried in the Report, because they are fairly elaborate and covered all these groups including the MRC and the Al Shabaab. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support and want to encourage hon. Yusuf that we also share ...
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