Rachel Wambui Shebesh

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are just asking a very fundamental question and I do not want us to go round in circles. If a white UK citizen, and it is unfortunate that we are being forced to go into this, can come and get a visa in Kenya, why cannot a UK black citizen or a yellow one or a blue one get a visa at the airport? We are now being thrown into semantics, but of course we know the Assistant Minister was a provincial administrator and so he knows how to take us in circles. However, our ... view
• 4 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the answer the Assistant Minister gave, he clearly stated in part “c” and if I could just quote:- “There was no insurance cover for African members of the King’s African Rifles before Independence. However, after Independence members of our Defence Forces are comprehensively insured by the Government.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want the Assistant Minister to be very clear on whether there is insurance cover for our Defence Forces when they are travelling in a chopper, tanks or when they are killed directly by fire. I am asking that question with the background that ... view
• 4 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support the Report of the Committee but with an amendment which reads as follows: “THAT, the Motion be amended by deleting the fullstop at the end thereof and inserting the words “subject to deletion of recommendations 3 and 4 on page 53.” Let me read what I am proposing to delete in my amendment. I am proposing that we delete the recommendation that says: “hon. Amos Kimunya and Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u have been responsible for the loss of Kshs1.83 billion acted contrary to the provisions of Chapter 6 of the ... view
• 4 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will make it faster than Dr. Khalwale did on Thursday and with a little less drama although I did want to put drama because Dr. Khalwale was allowed free airtime on the issue of Siamese twins and Oh! Oh! Oh! That is what the country was told on Thursday when we started debate, not on the details that have come out today. So, on Thursday, the country condemned the Minister for Transport; the country condemned the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. We had not even started with debate on the Report. Those ... view
• 30 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. This Statement does not seem to say who made disparaging remarks. This is the Floor of the National Assembly; this is a House that is taken seriously on national television. The Minister cannot be making a Statement on hearsay. He is not telling us who made these remarks, what they were and how they affect the Government. Honestly, we cannot be coming to do public relations for one side of the Government against the other. view
• 30 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wanted to seek a clarification on the Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and he is not in. Can I go ahead because his assistant is here? view
• 30 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, can I give an unsolicited statement on the same? view
• 30 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise on a point of order to seek clarification as to whether there is conflict of interest between the PAC and the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, given the fact that the two Committees were looking into the same issue. We already have precedence in this House. The issue was being investigated by the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade but the PAC took it up and brought their Report to the House ahead of the other Committee. In the circumstances, what happens to the work of the Committee on Finance, ... view
• 30 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I know that we have said that there should be no interruptions, but is it really fair that as the hon. Member is giving us his Report, he is also construing what is supposed to be a conclusion, that already leads to bias, if we were told to be quiet and listen to the Report? Could he give his Report without calling people “Siamese twins who are going to share loot” because that means that, already, he is concluding for us what we have not concluded after hearing this Report ... view
• 29 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could the Assistant Minister be very clear because we know a Bill was brought before the Floor of this House, however, it was withdrawn when the courts fixed the date of the election and this whole process was going to start a fresh? Now he is saying that the Bill is before the House. I would like him to be clear because I do not know whether the Bill is before the House or this process will start a fresh. view