Martha Karua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to stand here and commend our armed forces for defending our country, and for the work they have done in Somalia. I support the President in acknowledging that; but the President ought to have thanked this House, in my view; for once, we stood as a House, and we have stood as a country, in support of what our armed forces were doing. view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: So, this is an area of convergence and if nobody else acknowledges it, let us, as a House, note that this is the way forward on issues of national importance. This is an area where we have done well. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President or the Government is known to be a friend of Al Bashir of Sudan. That friendship which was displayed during the promulgation of the Constitution must now be actively utilized to ensure that no war breaks out between Sudan and South Sudan. I am, therefore, as the de facto leader of the Opposition, urging the ... view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, could the hour glass stop? view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am the de facto leader of the Opposition and I will repeat once again and I play that role effectively. So, I am urging President Kibaki, on behalf of Kenya, to utilize his friendship with Al Bashir to ensure that he brokers peace between Sudan and South Sudan. We do not need war; we need peace in the region. I want to urge the five leaders of the East African Community (EAC) to reconsider their decision to reject the application of Sudan as a member of the EAC. We should be ready as a region ... view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: I want to also say that, yes, the Kibaki Government has transformed the infrastructure, but there is one word missing from their vocabulary, the word “maintenance”. They are opening new roads, but forgetting the old ones. So, from a new road, you fall directly into a deep pothole. We want them to adopt the word “maintenance” to ensure there is expansion and maintenance. Lastly, I want to tackle the issue of Kenya being one. In NARC-Kenya, we say one Kenya, one nation, one people. We are glad that this is now the clarion call of everybody. As pertains to the ... view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Mine is similar to the one raised by the hon. Member for Juja. My Question was No.4 on the weekly list, but in the morning it was left out. I raised the matter and as the hon. Member for Juja, I am saying even if it was due to time, you would expect that the Office of the Clerk would pick the first four Questions but not to pick No.1, No.6, No.3 thereby showing obvious bias. I am wondering, first, whether I can be assured that my Question similarly will appear tomorrow ... view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to begin by also giving my condolences to the families in Dandora and empathize with the police who were attached at Hope International, and to congratulate the Minister for acknowledging where there have been police excess and acting on them. However, I want to ask him: Since the incident at Limuru was televised and faces of the police officers who were clobbering that young man could be seen, why is it taking him so long to actually take action? Secondly, in the case of the Dandora incident, why were police using live bullets on people ... view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: disperse, instead of using tear gas and rubber bullets? Could he consider retraining the Police Force as part of the reforms and also deepening the police reforms? view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, just to wonder whether the investigators have asked the Serbian Embassy watchman whether his work station is outside or inside the embassy. Where does he normally sit, because we have just been told that he did not notice anything? view
• 25 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister has told us that the Government does not condone extra judicial killings, but if I remember the report by the Human Rights Commission and Professor Ashton shows that the Government has condoned repeated police brutality. Could he confirm that the body of the late Samir Khan was discovered in Voi, but taken all the way to Wundanyi, about 12 kilometres away from the scene while the Voi Mortuary was the nearest? He should also confirm, like I had asked when asking for a Ministerial Statement, whether the members of the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) ... view