All parliamentary appearances
Entries 1161 to 1170 of 1730.
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16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
Secondly, I want to thank and congratulate the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the President for the quick action in appointing Judges of the Supreme Court because this will now bring to an end issues of interpretation of the Constitution. Whatever it is that we are in doubt then, other than for purposes of allowing us to move on, where we want to know exactly what the Constitution provides, we should be able now to refer it to the Supreme Court.
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16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion for many reasons, many of which have been mentioned by the speakers before me. First, hunger is looming in the country and it is important that the Government has the capacity to mitigate or ensure that none of our own dies because of hunger.
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16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
Secondly, the Member for Turkana Central who is now occupying the Chair has on many occasions complained and urged the Government to ensure that the continued killing of our people along the border is stopped. For the Government to be able to ensure that security is available to all Kenyans, especially within the areas that border countries that are to some extent, unstable, there is need for money and that money cannot be available if we do not pass this Motion.
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16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
Thirdly, we have issues of defence which have been mentioned. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations and I know, as a Member of that Committee, that â without any defence to the Department of Defence â there is
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16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion of Adjournment. As I do so, I want to congratulate the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs because in difficult times, he has struggled to continue bringing Bills to the House. I also want to thank and congratulate the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for the Budget that he presented to this House. It is a Budget that will touch the lives of ordinary Kenyans in many ways. As I do that, I also want to say that we have ...
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16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are not opposed to opposing values that Kenyans may be having. But it is important that we ensure that we do not sell the soul of this nation to values that we do not ascribe to because as a country we have values and aspirations that we aspire to---
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16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, she is seated. She cannot be on a point of order when she is seated and you cannot persuade her to have one.
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16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think it is only fair that I finish and then you can call the Mover to reply.
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16 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am just about to conclude by saying that we are going on recess on a sad note. It is important I note this. When we have an institution in the name of the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) laying off senior managers, eight of them from the same community, it will be wrong for us not to take note of that. The same is happening at the Multimedia University and also with the water boards. It is important that we take note of these things. As leaders, we need to let the country know that ...
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15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly:
On a point of order. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. For the reasons that have been adduced by Dr. Khalwale and hon. Ethuro, am I then in order to ask that the Minister to give an undertaking to issue the Ministerial Statement this afternoon? That is because tomorrow may be too late given the things that we know have happened in the past.
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