Kabando wa Kabando

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 471 to 480 of 761.

• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Truly, we are very conscious and we are listening. However, it is also true that we could be consulting on other issues because the hon. Chairman is actually reading the report word by word and sentence by sentence. To give credit to this House, this Report was submitted last week. It will pay dividends to the Chairman’s contribution if he just highlighted the key areas and summarized without reading the document, word by word. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with all due respect to the queries raised, which are to be listened to and they are partly legitimate, we are now in an era of upgrade in ICT. Is it in order for us to expect that every time there is a Motion, however important it is, technocrats, who are very tuned to reading a historic Budget under a new Constitution, will relief themselves of that attention and concentration to sit here? We know that they can obtain not just the HANSARD in their offices, because this has happened even in my Ministry many times, ... view
• 21 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will be very brief. This is an unsolicited Ministerial Statement as I had already alerted the Chair. view
• 21 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Kenya is a country endowed with great athletes. This is in respect of the performance we exhibit in all the championships organized in different cities every year. Boston and London are a testimony to this. The dominance of our athletes is legendary. Since the realization of this potential which includes marathon, our athletes have never looked back and have given this country very highly rated performances. It is noted that Kenya’s athletes are very strong and the single-most disciplined marathoners. For example, in 2008, out of the best world 100 top runners, 65 of them were Kenyans. This number must ... view
• 21 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, organizers in different cities invite Kenyans to grace their events is because the participation of Kenyan talent gives the competitions high profile and also attract handsome sponsorship because of the calibre of Kenya participating. While marathon organizers are at liberty to invite whoever they want and award them according to their plans, as a Government, we view different treats to winners in the same event based on their origin as global discrimination and against the spirit of sportsmanship. Kenya continues to offer high altitude training venues to athletes from many countries including the Netherlands because ... view
• 21 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are not aware of any other place, at least not any protest or information, in my Ministry. Our departments or sports federations have not complained of discrimination. In fact, everywhere Kenyans have gone, whether New York, Boston or Berlin, they have been received. They have been awarded like any other competitor. Therefore, this is view
• 14 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, nominated Member of Parliament, hon. Shebesh, asked whether we could give the position of the Ministry in regard to the age limit which had been spelt out in the electoral code of Football Kenya elections set in Article 9(b) Clause 2(c)(d) and (e) of that criteria. view
• 14 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: I want to state that any person contesting for any position in the federation must fulfill the following conditions as ratified by FIFA:- view
• 14 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: (a) For the post of chairman and vice-chairman of the National Executive Committee, one must be at least 35 years of age and should be not be older than 70 years. view