Dr. Patrick Mweu Musimba

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Telkom Kenya has, indeed, been a legacy for this nation; it cross-cuts very many facets, and supports a lot of livelihoods by creating jobs. What occurred recently at Telkom Kenya was pure fraud. That is why I agree with the Committee that urgent steps have to be taken; this Report must be taken to the EACC and the Committee on Implementation should follow up on the same. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: In the past one year, we have seeing the continuous offloading of assets. I know many Members have alluded to land; as recently as a month ago, there was an announcement that they were going to retire their Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network. For those who do not understand what it is, this is the bridge towards 4G, which is for high speed broadband. It has actually been switched off. That was what was keeping it together, because Telkom enjoys a fixed line monopoly and it was its answer towards the vandalism of cables which has been rampant in ... view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Many institutions in Government and homes depend on this landline system. If the retirement of the CDMA and the fixed line network are allowed to collapse, then we will face a very bleak future in terms of connectivity. This is because we know the Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications network, as it is with most operators, does not meet the standard of quality parameters set by the Communications Authority (CA). It would greatly affect our economy, which is trading upwards at over US$100 billion. Investigations and execution have to be done very urgently. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: We will have to recall the House to fix a specific time span in following through with this Report. Vision 2030 has three pillars, namely political, social and economic, and they heavily depend on telecommunications as a major facilitator of growth and, indeed, in meeting our expectations towards expanding jobs. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: When you talk about matters like business process outsourcing (BPO), you are looking at the same. Our initiative in the establishment of Konza City will heavily depend on the stability of our telecommunications industry and ability to attract foreign investments. Considering the manner in which this particular privatization took place, we must spare no effort to get to the bottom of it, and reinstate consumer and investor confidence in Kenya as a country of laws. We must invoke Cap. 486 of the laws of Kenya to fix individual responsibility of directors of State-owned corporations, and hold them liable individually and ... view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: shares, which loss the Chairperson put in the region of Kshs66 billion; this ought to be used as a major example. In line with the President’s State of the Nation Address we must go for those who are corrupt, take urgent measures against them, and interrogate the role the Privatization Commission, the Investments Office at Treasury and other individuals played in safeguarding Kenyan property. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: You talk about the asset registry missing, but the asset registries of these corporations are well known; at the time of splitting in 1999 of the defunct Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) into three entities, namely the Postal Corporation of Kenya, Telkom Kenya and the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), the assets were divided ably. So, it is very easy to go back to that particular point and pinpoint what assets were in place and what is there as of today. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: As I earlier stated, the telecommunications sector is massive. Kenya leads globally in monumental e-transactions. Every country around the world benchmarks with Kenya. That is why we cannot allow a company as significant as Telkom Kenya to go down. We must take all steps necessary, including enlisting the assistant of the criminal Investigations Department (CID) and everybody else. Once we get into a situation of an oligopoly between these firms, we will not be helping anybody. We are simply sending this country to its death bed. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I cannot speak enough on this, but I just want to say that the Committee on Implementation must take urgent steps to address this. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I thank you for the opportunity to contribute. Thank you. view