Philip Lotiolo Ruto Rotino

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 121 to 130 of 193.

• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: So, hon. Deputy Speaker, I really want to support this Motion that we must have a regulatory authority to be able to regulate the fares. Some of us who travel upcountry many times do so by air travel because our roads are not safe. If you look at Jambo Jet that goes to Eldoret and Kisumu, their fares vis-à-vis those of Kenya Airways and Fly 540, you will find that those of Kenya Airways are very expensive because of the monopoly that they are proud of. view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: So, hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to support this Motion and say that we want to encourage other airlines to come in. However, getting licences in this country is so tedious. The bureaucracy that is there is limiting people to open up the air fares. So, I want to say that this Motion must be approved and everybody should support it so that we encourage our people to travel by air. We should not put conditions that limit people from going into this business. view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I support it. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to join my colleagues in contributing to the Address by the President. From the outset, I want to congratulate the President for, first of all, accepting to go to The Hague, as my colleagues have said. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Secondly, there are lessons we learnt from the behaviour of the President that day. If you watched the television, or you went to the airport to see the President off, you witnessed the humility that he showed. Twelve hours earlier, he was the President with a limousine and all the security around him, but when he was going to The Hague he was just an ordinary Kenyan; an ordinary citizen going through the normal processes that other Kenyans undergo. As leaders, we should learn and emulate that. This is because many of us would not do that if we were ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even in your constituency, if you move around with the security guards surrounding you--- If you are not safe in your constituency, then you are not worth the position of a leader. So, the President showed us that he has a lot of confidence, and he is secure when he is with his people; he is not threatened. He also showed us that he does not feel intimidated. This is because he is very confident among the people he is leading; they trust him and he trusts them. That is why he was able to do ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: From the Address that the President gave and accepted to go to The Hague as a Kenyan citizen, or as a person, and not as a President, we learn a lesson about humility. We learn a lesson of selfless leader, or a leader who does not put himself on top of everybody else, but is one who is down to earth. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, of course, I expected the President to address the issue of insecurity because we have many problems with insecurity. There are even conflicts between tribes. We have conflicts between the Turkana and the Pokot. North ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: I also expected the President to address the issue of famine. There are areas in this country where the rains were not enough. There is food shortage and the President should have addressed that. He should have said how his Government is prepared. Are they prepared to fight the famine which we will experience next year? He never addressed that. In addition to talking about The Hague, I expected him to talk about that matter. This is because when he called us, we knew that he was going to talk about The Hague. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank the President for having confidence in his deputy. This is because if he did not have confidence in his deputy, he would not have handed power to him. There are many ways we can hand over power. Even if he “coloured” it by handing over or by signing, it would have amounted to the same thing; he showed Kenyans that he was with them and he had confidence in his deputy when he left him behind. We want to tell the President that when he was away, we were in the able ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view