Richard Onyonka

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 791 to 800 of 818.

• 12 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the large number of refugees who fled from the Marsabit area to Ethiopia did so because there was a problem of the Turbi Massacre of 2005. Since then, the conditions have improved and as the hon. Member has just said, I believe that the Ministry of State for Special Programmes should be coming up with an option of encouraging them to come back home. I believe the country is much more peaceful now and they will be welcomed. To a large extent, we believe that this will be good for the country and them. view
• 12 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to praise the support that my colleagues have given this Motion. I would like to support the Motion also. Very briefly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, although I do not have enough time, there are about three issues that I would like to discuss. Currently, the water levels of our rivers has gone down because of the mismanagement of our environment. The reason for that is that the water towers, which are supposed to be protected by all of us, have actually been abused by all of us. We seem ... view
• 12 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I had about three issues which I wanted to raise. First of all, I said that I support the Motion. One of the things I have noticed about our country is that, as I said earlier, we are not sincere about issues and we never come out clearly to discuss them as openly as we should. I am willing to thank my colleague, Mr. C. Kilonzo, for having raised the very critical issues. For example, you notice that Prof. Maathai got the Nobel Prize for being an environmentalist, yet we hardly give appreciation to what ... view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am perturbed that my colleague who is the Assistant Minister just like me, is looking at the Government alone and yet I believe there are Members of Parliament who also need to improve and pull up their socks on matters of corruption because it affects all of us as Kenyans. view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my point of order is that I think the Assistant Minister is being unfair by actually accusing the Government side only. view
• 7 Aug 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to support this Motion. Mr. Namwamba wants to be on my case today. We have very weighty matters at our constituencies. Currently we have just received our tranches of the monies which are supposed to be distributed to various areas in our constituencies. We have not done that because the monies came in late. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as Members have been alluding, we have been having issues at our schools. We, therefore, need to go to the villages and find out why our schools have problems. If possible, when we ... view
• 23 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to July 23, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2053 reply. (a) I am aware that without reference to or prior to consultations with my Ministry, which is responsible for managing the Scheme of Service for Foreign Service Officers, a letter which was dated 16th February, 2007, seeking to adjust the Job Groups of Ambassadors serving in our Missions abroad was received. After a careful scrutiny of the contents of the letter, and after making several inquiries, the letter and the premise on which the proposal was grounded was found to be both inaccurate and incompatible with the ... view
• 23 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like Mr. Affey to be patient, so that I can explain to him that the amount of money which an ambassador earns as allowances, as much as Mr. Affey wants it to be part of the salary, has been increased from US$5,900 per year to US$9,700 per year, in the last one year. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 23 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a very simple explanation for not increasing the salaries of the said ambassadors and high commissioners. One, the Directorate of Personnel Management (DPM), which is the body that rationalises civil servants' salaries, including the salaries of civil servants serving in the Ministry of Finance, and PSRRB, which was appointed to study and analyze how public servants are being remunerated were not consulted when Amb. Muthaura wrote this letter. In other words, what I am trying to explain to the House is that after 2001, there were salary increments for the ambassadors. First of all, I ... view
• 23 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the point I am making is that all these three subsequent salary increments were made every time ambassadors came and went to meet the Head of State and he arbitrarily increased their salaries. We, in the Ministry, are saying that we want that to stop, so that we can rationalise professionally how every member of the Public Service in the foreign service should be paid. view