Martha Karua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was in my rural home over the weekend. On Monday, I held a meeting in my constituency office with over 300 members of my constituency on matters of security. The District Officer and the Officer Commanding Station (OCS) were present. Why was the information about a security threat to me not availed to them? If, indeed, the police or the Government is concerned about my security, how come my security detail and my driver were withdrawn immediately I resigned, although I know some former Ministers who never made it through the elections of 2007, and are ... view
• 13 May 2009 in National Assembly: But, Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a Personal Statement! view
• 13 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with your permission, I want to table a copy of a letter I have written to the Minister of State in charge of Provincial Administration and Internal Security. That may now give the Assistant Minister time to respond. view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security the following Question by Private Notice. Under what circumstances did the police in Kirinyaga and Mathira allow a convoy of 1,000 motorcycles, each with three men wielding crude weapons such as pangas and axes, to drive through market centers in all the four districts of Kirinyaga and Mathira Division in Nyeri District on 19th April, 2009 under the pretext of hunting down " Mungiki" ? view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thought it now belongs to the House! view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Now that the Assistant Minister claims there were 200 and not 1,000 motorcycles, could he confirm that each was carrying three persons, that would make them 600? My information is that there were 3,000 young men and they were carrying crude weapons such as pangas and axes. They had paraded through all the four districts of Kirinyaga and that they entered Mathira carrying crude weapons and passing roadblocks as though it was a Presidential motorcade. view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is it in order for the Assistant Minister to start talking about politicization when all I have done is to ask a supplementary question and factual details? view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, now that the Assistant Minister has admitted that there were 200 motorcycles, although we insist that they were 1,000 with two passengers each, totalling to 600 people, could he tell us whether the law had been suspended in Kirinyaga for people carrying crude weapons to march through the district and cause terror and whether the same law had been suspended when 14 suspects were murdered under police watch by the vigilante thereby causing the reprisal? view
• 6 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support the Motion. We have been talking about 29 victims of the massacre and the lady who was killed brutally thereafter. The total number of lives lost is 44. Before the Karatina incident, we had watched as Kenyans - and the security apparatus also watched - 14 suspects get brutally murdered by vigilantes and their property burnt. view
• 6 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, may I repeat what I had said in advance and continue. The information I got from the ground is that it was a convoy of 1,000 motorcycles, each carrying three people, brandishing crude weapons including pangas, bows, arrows and axes. It drove through the four districts of Kirinyaga; through Ngurubani, Kimbimbi and through Kutus, which Gichugu shares with Mwea, and Kerugoya/Kutus. It drove through Kerugoya, Kagumo and, finally, it entered Nyeri East District or Mathira and ended at Karatina. It is as if the security apparatus had gone to sleep. I understand that the police on ... view