Richard Onyonka

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Bw. Naibu Spika wa Muda, mhe. Kabogo--- view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I oblige. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: I beg to reply. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: (a) Yes, we are aware that Madam Elizabeth Wambui Macharia died and was cremated in Mozambique. Elizabeth’s mother came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 24th January, 2012 and informed the Ministry that she had passed on while in Mozambique. Madam Wambui left behind two sons, one George Kanja, who is 17 years old and Jeremy Scott Sippo, aged 9 years. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: (b) I would like to inform the House that Madam Elizabeth Wambui’s mother, Mrs. Nelius Kanja, asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs whether we could provide the necessary help that she required of repatriating the ashes of her daughter and bring to Kenya her two children. After we received this information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we then authorized employees of the Kenyan Mission in Harare – because Harare is accredited to operate in Mozambique and other states in the southern Africa – to travel to Mozambique and find out whether:- view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: (i) the children were surviving and comfortable wherever they were; and, view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: (ii) there was a possibility that these two children could actually be brought back to Kenya. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: The officials of the Kenyan Embassy, after travelling, gave us a report back and told us that we had two problems. First, the children did not have travel documents to travel back into Kenya, because their names had been superimposed on their mother’s passport. That had to legally be sorted out before they could be brought back. Secondly, after the Kenyan Government officials who work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted the children, they agreed that they were willing to come back home, as per the wishes of their grandmother, as soon as the necessary arrangements were done. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I actually was not evading the answer which I drafted and gave to my colleague. The reason I did not discuss the details is because I did not want to belabour the House with a lot of details on the issue. But, one, we are very proud that Government officers travelled down to Mozambique and looked for these children. They ascertained their health status and it was not good. They brought the report back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and we are now preparing tickets for these children to be brought back. The grandmother ... view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials travelled to Mozambique and since then, they have been providing the basic necessities for the children to survive on until we can bring them back. We have been giving them some little money to buy food and sustain themselves as we prepare the documentation for them to come back. view