Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No. 76, seeking the indulgence of the House to make a Personal Statement on a news item titled: “Kosgey says she was denied visa over the Ndung’u Report.” This was carried in today’s editionof The Standard Newspaper. The misleading statement is purported to have been said by myself during my contribution to the Presidential Speech yesterday. I wish to set the record straight. I did not say that I have been denied a visa over the Ndung’u Report or for any other reason. The HANSARD recording of yesterday’s ... view
• 4 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Newspaper to report: “Minister becomes the first Cabinet Member to admit that she is amongst 15 top officials banned from visiting UK and US” is just untrue, offensive and, in my view, pure malice for a newspaper that claims that it bases its work on professional work, fairness, and justice. Thankfully, I have never been denied a visa to any country ever either in the past or currently. I have all the visas I need to visit the countries I usually visit for official and private reasons. It can only be concluded that the misreporting and misrepresentation of facts by ... view
• 4 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Motion on the Presidential Address which I support. I would like to commend the President for the excellent Address he made in this House. He spelt out Government policy, the Bills and Government programmes ahead of us. He touched on the Draft Constitution which he asked all of us to support so that we can get a new Constitution after waiting for two decades. I urge my colleagues that we support the Draft Constitution when it is brought before the House. I think the ... view
• 4 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I would like to commend the President; he mentioned about the Lamu Port. This should be speeded up, so that the economy is stimulated. The opening up of the free port at Dongo Kundu should also be done. We have been talking about a free port for a long time; it is high time this is implemented so that we do not keep on talking about it year in, year out. On the question of Vision 2030, we have been hearing this for quite sometime now, and we have not seen the effects. The body concerned should move, so that ... view
• 4 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I would like to talk about corruption. I would like to commend the President because he was very specific when he said that we should not politicise the issues of corruption. When it comes to corruption, every case should be treated on its own merit, and it should be investigated by the appropriate body, the Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission ( KACC); if it is the Committee of Parliament, it should investigate and table its report and we debate it as we have been doing. If somebody is found to have committed an offence, then action is taken. There is the ... view
• 4 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I want to talk about Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC), the question of Bethwel Kiplagat; people have been opposing him. I think Mr. Kiplagat was selected through a process and that process was established to ensure that people are scrutinized, interrogated and he went through all that. I am wondering where people who are opposing him now were at that time when he was nominated and his name was approved. I support the appointment of Mr. Kiplagat and I think there should be nobody to oppose it. view
• 4 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you very much. view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, game poaching particularly of elephants is well organized and well co-ordinated between the buyers and the poachers. The Assistant Minister has said that over 1,000 people have been arrested. How many of these have been imprisoned or fined for this offence of killing the elephants? view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will start by commending the President on what he said about the Constitution. The Constitution making in Kenya, as we know, has travelled over 20 years. We are at a level where we could actually achieve this constitution. That is not to say that we are home and dry. As a Member who was selected by this House to represent it in the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Review, I will always cherish the opportunity I was given to participate in this process. We did not abuse that opportunity, but we always remembered ... view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: know, came out of Agenda 4 of the Serena Talks. I will come back to that in a little while, but given the job that I have been given in this Government to do, of shepherding the process of university education and technical training, I noticed in the President’s Speech as I have noticed many times, that constantly, the idea of higher education is left out as an important element of our development. I suspect that when we look at the Vision 2030, we do not see that the country cannot develop without proper scientists. I am alarmed that the ... view