Patrick Kariuki Mariru

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5511 to 5520 of 8412.

• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Order, Leader of the Majority Party. What is out of order, Hon. Kabinga? view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Leader of the Majority Party, you seem to have seen the fence. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have seen that fence. It is not a wall, it is a fence. I can even tell somebody to take a photo. I am sure if the Mandera people are watching, they can even send me through WhatsApp . It is not a wall, it is chain-link.The one we use in keeping cows. I support the building of the wall. We must secure our national interests. If there is a place we should add money to, it is the Directorate of National Intelligence Service (NIS). The NIS are the ones who have secured 70 per ... view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Secondly and more important, committees of this House must not take the House for a ride. We are not here to rubberstamp. The President is at the forefront fighting corruption. You cannot justify the Kshs3.9 billion spent here. In fact, there is conflict of interest. This was a parliamentary-paid trip to Mandera. In Mandera, there is a very good type of meat called Aleso. Maybe the Members went there and enjoyed it. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Members, please, you have powers to bring an amendment. You can even change the whole observation and recommendations. I saw Members lamenting here. As debate is going on, you need to amend this Report. Can we have some people who will move an amendment? The Auditor-General is facing the same problem even auditing county governments in the North. The Auditor-General cannot go to Marsabit, Mandera, Garissa and Wajir. Why? He is told if he goes there he will not come back alive. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The other day you saw some police officers trying to kill EACC officers. The Inspector- General of Police and DCI must arrest those officers. The EACC gets its powers from this House and it is only answerable to the National Assembly, not even the Senate. The DPP is doing good work. People must go to Mandera. In this Report, the committee is saying the weather is bad. Which weather? That place is dry eight months of the year. The contractor is saying because of the weather, they could not build the wall. It is too dry. It does not rain ... view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: We will not allow this House to be used as a rubberstamp. Members should go further from this Report and file a Question to the Cabinet Secretary. Hon. Kioni is a ranking Member. He is saying it is a very interesting report. Those of us who come from border areas have committed ourselves even in the pastoralist forum to defend our country from criminals, terrorists and drug dealers. We are at the forefront but we will not allow our region to be used as a conduit to steal public resources appropriated by this House. The Committee of Defence and The ... view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Foreign Relations must walk the talk. In fact, the Public Investments Committee (PIC) –and there are many Members here – needs to pick up from here. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Finally, Hon. Katoo is a decent politician, a former Minister and one of the longest serving Members of Parliament. He joined Parliament at a very tender age. The most outrageous thing of Hon. Katoo’s report is the challenges the contractor is facing. Ati lack of skill and skilled labour. Why can you not give it to a local contractor who knows how to work? You have taken people there, ati minimal availability of both skill and skilled labour. Ati encroachment along the border. As a country, we have a lot of stake in Somalia. We have our men and women ... view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Finally, this is another scandal in the making. This is something Mr. Kinoti of DCI, Mr. Mbarak of EACC and the Auditor-General must pick. If the Auditor-General is scared, he can go with Hon. Bashir, the Member of Parliament for Mandera North, who goes there every day. We want to get the Kshs3.9 billion appropriated by this House. We want to see equivalent of a wall, not a fence built. I rest my case, and I oppose. view