Martha Karua

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1601 to 1610 of 2953.

• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am surprised to hear the Assistant Minister wonder what farm gate is because that is the language in the Sugar Act. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my question to the Assistant Minister is whether he is aware that when the cane is taken to the sugar factory to be weighed, it is lost along the way and, therefore, farmers lose their revenue? Is he also aware that their weight is sometimes deliberately distorted by those weighing at the factory and hence the need to weigh at the farm gate? view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Minister insists that they do not give a duration for ambassadors. The law may not have a specific period but we are aware that either the appointment letter or the Agreemo sent to the foreign country where the ambassador is being posted contains the duration for which that ambassador will serve. Is the Minister in order to mislead the House that no duration is given while an ambassador is being posted? view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like the Minister to clarify why the Ministry of Lands and the Government would extend the lease to a bank which gave money view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: knowing the period of the lease that was remaining. Ordinary Kenyans are losing their property and we have not seen the Government help them. Furthermore, from the Minister’s account, a whooping Kshs140 million has been made by people sitting on their desks and doing what is known in common parlance wheeler-dealings. The Minister has been so good to repossess land. I saw one such incident yesterday. Can we be told why he cannot repossess this land and could he also table the documents here for each of these four or five transactions so that we are able to identify the ... view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Minister said he was extending the lease to assist the bank to recover its money. It is not true. The sole reason the lease was extended was to help people make money through speculation. In those circumstances, then the Minister is entitled to revoke the lease on the basis of fraud, especially when we see that the characters involved in the transactions are associates of people who have been in all the big view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: scandals, from Goldenberg to everything. The pictures are here. I do not know why the Minister has hesitated to read them--- view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker Deputy, Sir, if you allow me, I can read out the names. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: I know of no associations myself, but this is what is in the market. This is NIC Bank. The Director who has signed on their behalf is Dod Allan James; he is transferring to Galaxy, and one of the directors is Anur Shariff Jamal--- view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Can we have the other document? view