Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1321 to 1330 of 2249.

• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my Ministry is just waiting for a response from the superintendent on whether the air conditioners have been put in place or not, because we do not want to send the engineers to do the repair and then for the X-ray to begin working and break down again. So, it is extremely important that the air conditioning system be put in place first. As soon as that is done and the medical superintendent informs my Ministry, we will not only repair the existing one, but we intend to put some more portable X-rays in Lamu ... view
• 7 Dec 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to contribute to this Motion on the Report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the Government of Kenya accounts for the year 2006/2007 laid on this Table on Thursday, 25th November, 2010. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you can see, we are in the year 2010 and are discussing the Report of almost four financial years ago. This means that we still continue to discuss these reports of both the Public Investments Committee (PIC) and PAC as historical documents. This raises a major issue in Government of ... view
• 18 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, together with the measures that the Pharmacy and Poisons Board has taken, it is now a requirement that herbal medicines be inspected by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board. We are encouraging herbal medicine men and women to seek the legal support of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board not to fall into the tragedy of sometime dispensing herbal medicines which are harmful to the population. At the international level, Kenya associates itself with prevention and control efforts and has been carrying out joint operations with other countries against counterfeit medicine, including herbal medicine. So far, we ... view
• 18 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Dr. Khalwale. First, in the East African Convention, we must all agree on what counterfeit medicine is and what the generics are. I think in the East African region, we have agreed on what standards view
• 2 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. I dissolved the Board of the Kenya Medical Laboratories Technicians and Technologists early this year following numerous complaints by stakeholders for various malpractices including financial impropriety. I reconstituted the Board on 24th September, 2010, through gazette notices Nos.11519 and 11520. In doing so, I was guided by the Kenya Medical Laboratories Technicians and Technologists Act No. 10 of 1999 as well as by the recommendations of a task force that I had formed in September 2009 to probe the previous board. The task force recommended further review of the operations of the previous ... view
• 2 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the areas where I declined to gazette members, it is because they were adversely mentioned in the Report. I have, therefore, not reappointed them until such a time that a committee that I have set up looks into the recommendations of the Report, discusses with EMU further to ascertain that the allegations that were reported against these people are indeed ascertainable and that once that decision is done--- view
• 2 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the hon. Member had been patient, he would definitely have followed my logic. I am making the point that the EMU did mention these people adversely, and so we cannot appoint them to the board. But they must be given a hearing because you cannot just assume that because the EMU has given us this Report, we should, therefore, forever condemn them to what has been said. What is certain is that--- view
• 2 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was telling the hon. Member that according to the new Constitution, when such a report mentions you adversely, then you step aside while investigations are going on. If you are deemed to be okay, then you are cleared. According to the recommendations of the Report, these people were mentioned adversely. Some of the allegations that had been made against them by members of the association, as well as the public, were actually confirmed by the EMU. So, what we did was to put them aside and constitute the board, so it can function. There are ... view
• 2 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, appointment of members of a board is not subsidiary legislation. view
• 2 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry has in actual fact informed the association of these procedures. Rather than the association coming back to the Ministry to discuss with us, it preferred to take the matter to court. They knew full well when the EMU team was going there. They were aware of it. They accepted it. They knew full well that the EMU would give us a report. But once the report was out, and since it was unfavourable to some of the officials who had used their six-year tenure in that board to misappropriate valuable resources, they were not ... view