Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1971 to 1980 of 3800.

• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following procedural Motion- THAT, pursuant to Standing Order No. 31, the Senate extends its Sitting today, to debate the Maize Report and the Motion on the Adoption of the 2019 Budget Policy Statement until both are exhausted. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on maize. At the first instance, this report is nothing short of a criminal enterprise. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: No, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It reveals criminal enterprise. The ad hoc Committee was being very diplomatic in this report. My concern is that at the first instance, when this crisis was going on, we thought maybe they were those shadowy companies; those we used to call “fat cats” - unknown people who caused this crisis. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: What happens to a country where the criminal enterprise is led by Cabinet Secretaries (CSs), where there are official minutes for that criminal enterprise? Who is going to save this country if Government and its CSs who are on oath are the ones who sat in a meeting to agree to the importation of maize and procure, yet some of them have been given the mandate of agriculture? One and a half million bags of maize, Sen. (Prof.) Kamar knows there was no reason to import 4 million bags. There is no record of the exact amount of maize that ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Sen. Wetangula whispered that the criminal enterprise could be worth Kshs18 billion. That is what these people have made, courtesy of CSs. Who is going to save this country? Who is going to arrest CSs? Is the President listening to us? Are we still on the Big Four Agenda? One of them is food security when somebody in November, 2017 says, import 4 million bags of maize, most of which cannot be consumed? view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr President, we speak to you, could you get rid of the CSs who have caused this problem first for political responsibility before we turn the DCI into something he is not? He cannot only arrest them for criminal responsibility. Where is the political responsibility to the farmers of this country? view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is even worse is that, I am told that the farmers who cannot sell their maize will burn it so that the crop that they harvested can now be stored. While the minimum was that they are supposed to break even Kshs5 for Kshs5. They have actually lost Kshs5. That is the money they pay school fees. We have impoverished people who rely on maize and farmers who are educating their children. We are now asking their children to be arrested because they cannot pay for Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loans. Who is going ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, another car KCC 433Q and KBX 279W towed trailers carrying 28,000 kilogrammes of maize. What a joke? These people, like any scandal in Kenya, whether it is the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), National Youth Service (NYS), whether it is Kabura, are heroes. I am surprised Jeff Koinange Live (JKL Live) has not called these maize farmers and these criminals into his show to showcase their prowess in stealing because they are thieves. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, do you know what is going to happen? Jasmine Revolution was caused by young man who could not get ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will be brief since most of the issues have been spoken about. First, I am happy that part of the recommendations we made in the Kamukunji about dealing with the BPS have been carried on board by the Committee which I sit in. I think for the last four or five years, we have sat in the Senate Finance and budget Committee, we have been getting into the wrong things. That means that we have been getting into the sectors of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and agriculture without interrogating the policy. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: I have also been wondering throughout this sitting how we can plug into the budget-making process. Therefore, I have proposed one of the solutions: One, this BPS deals with the budget policy issues whether it is debt, financing, borrowing or other issues that are captured in Section 25 of the PFM Act. However, the only question that still remains is the implementation. How do we check that the things that we have proposed here become decisions of Parliament? view