Martha Karua

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1391 to 1400 of 2953.

• 23 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir--- view
• 23 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a matter of public knowledge that the Member for Makadara is being held by police for what appears to be more than legal reasons. It could be political. I said “political” because he is being pressurized to resign his seat as a Member of Parliament. view
• 23 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, is the Assistant Minister following up the repossession of this plot which is clearly a public utility plot? view
• 23 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, while the wife came to deliver this message to me, she indicated that the husband is under pressure to resign his Parliamentary seat. He has already appeared before Kibera Court. He is now in Kileleshwa Police Station and is being pressurized to resign his seat. That is the report I received and it is not of my own knowledge. To return to the Question, could the Assistant Minister confirm that they are following to recover this plot which is clearly a public utility plot grabbed by notorious land grabbers? view
• 23 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is only last week that Mr. Mbuvi asked Question No.548 to the same Minister and in this case, the land occupied by the offices of the City Council, Makadara Ward, had similarly been occupied by a private developer. In that instance, the Minister agreed to repossess. Is the Assistant Minister satisfied that merely because the chief’s office was not a permanent building, that land should have been alienated to the developer? Is he giving a green light that all administrative offices and public utilities should now be parceled and shared out by developers in Makadara Constituency? view
• 23 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is not true that he was preparing to drop the Question. In the previous case, there is a letter from the Permanent Secretary confirming that the land was grabbed and requesting the Council to repossess it. Therefore, clearly, there is a pattern where the Ministry is giving all the public utility land. It is okay if the Assistant Minister wants to look at it further but it is not true that the Question was being dropped. view
• 23 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have had the pleasure of seeing the answer the Assistant Minister had supplied and I want to draw your attention to paragraph (a) where he states categorically that the matter that was before the House was with regard to the constitution of the board of the corporation and not the appointment of the Chief Executive. I rise on that because unless you give directions, a Question cannot be on one thing and then extended to stretch to another. Otherwise, this House will become just a mechanism for lynching. It is necessary ... view
• 16 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am also a Member of that Committee. I heard about it in the car as I came. I was also not aware. I am hearing it for the first time. There are serious issues to resolved before any such step is taken. There is also the fear that the interpretation of the parties that are supposed to nominate is not agreed upon because it must not be made to mean parliamentary political parties. That is not the language in the Constitution. This is a thorny issue which had better get your ... view
• 16 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Once the Chairman has said that most of the whistleblowers are in court over misappropriation, he is under obligation to substantiate, lest he character assassinates, which he had warned himself against. So, could he substantiate or withdraw that remark? view
• 16 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Committee’s Report with a few reservations which I will mention. I did ask three questions in this Parliament; one directed to the Attorney-General, one to the Minister in charge of internal security and another to the Minister for Cooperative Development and Marketing. All the questions were relating to issues surrounding Harambee SACCO. It was a Question to the Attorney-General and the police that caused this matter to be referred to the Committee. I must say that the Question that I had asked the Minister initially was resolved by the Minister ... view