All parliamentary appearances
Entries 1991 to 2000 of 2953.
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to agree that corruption is a major challenge to governance in our country. I also wish to reaffirm Government's commitment to deal with corruption cases firmly and decisively. The fight against corruption is a key priority in the Grand Coalition Government's agenda. The political pillar of Vision 2030, which was launched soon after the Grand Coalition Government was formed, commits the Government to a vision of transparent, accountable, ethical and result-oriented Government institutions. To achieve this, the Government through the medium term plans, has already elaborated the measures it will institute which include; ...
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the outset, it is important to let Parliament know that my Ministry is involved in developing policy that is applicable to the entire Government. However, implementation measures relate to specific Government departments and Ministries. Therefore, some of the measures, including the legislative agenda are with specific Government Ministries.
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government has already developed a national anti- corruption plan through a multi-stakeholder process involving the Government, civil society, media and the private sector. We are in the third year of implementing that plan. However, I want to say that we are good at making plans but not as good in implementing them. Therefore, the implementation may not be as good as the plan itself.
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have also operationalised the Political Parties Act which seeks to ensure transparent and accountable management of political parties and also provide funding for political parties.
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, through legislation in this Parliament, we have increased the number of judges in order to speed up cases. However, judges have not been appointed yet because of lack of space. I saw an advertisement in yesterday's Press in which the Judiciary is saying the former Income Tax Building is now ready for occupation. So, perhaps, then we may expect appointments.
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have also launched the Public Complaints Standing Committee which is like the ombudsman. This is mainly to look at administrative bottlenecks. It has so far dealt with 1,223 cases.
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
The Government has also committed to boost the capacity of the Attorney-General's Office in prosecution of corruption cases and my office hired five special prosecutors. This was a temporary measure and the Attorney-General is expected to improve the capacity of his staff.
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to admit that Kenya's governance agenda suffered a major setback last year due to the post-election violence following the December 27th General Elections. As I said before, the threshold we had achieved previously was lowered and in appointments, we flouted the law. We had achieved earlier a threshold that people with pending cases Fe bruary 18, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Attorney-General, in his guide to supplementary question, did supply me with a few names. But anybody wanting to see more names will have to go through the list that is on the table. I am not able to give the names of the Ministers in Government with pending corruption cases because that is a separate question. I will still have to refer to the Attorney-General. But he did give a number of names of both hon. Members of Parliament and Ministers who have filed constitutional references which have delayed the hearing of ...
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18 Feb 2009 in National Assembly:
I cannot give any other names as I am not the one with the list of pending cases. I will have to depend on the Attorney-General. I am aware that they are more than that. But it is a separate question.
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