Robert Pukose

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2721 to 2730 of 2869.

• 7 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: presented to the House, it has to meet the necessary threshold and for this petition to have reached the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, it must have met the threshold that is required. Hon. Speaker, when a commission or anybody, whether you are in a private capacity or not, is summoned to appear before a parliamentary committee it means that you are given an opportunity to give your side of the story. This Committee felt that it was not necessary for this person to appear before it and, therefore, this was contempt not just to that Committee but ... view
• 7 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, for clarity purposes, this House has not dismissed the JSC. What this House has done is that it has recommended that the JSC should be probed. The JSC should be able to give their story when a tribunal is formed so that we find out the truth of the matter. Therefore, our colleagues who feel that maybe we are after anybody’s position should support this report and adopt it the way it is. With those few remarks, I support this Motion. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: No, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in July, I sought a statement from the Chairperson of the Committee on Lands on an issue that touches on a co-operative society that was evicted by the Kenya Forest Service (KFC), whose land was acquired by the KFS without any compensation. Since that time, the Chairperson has been promising to bring the report to the House after every two weeks. I know that they have had serious issues for the last one week and this week, which they are about to dispense of. So, I seek the guidance of the House on how soon he is going ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I thank the hon. Member for the concern and the Committee for trying to address the issues but it would be in order if he could give me a period of time within which he will bring the statement. He could do it in a week or two weeks’ time because these people have been waiting. They are actually suffering. So, it will be good if he can indicate to me the specific timeframe. I would not mind even if he tells me that he can bring the statement in two weeks’ time. I will be comfortable. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to thank the Vice-Chair for his attempt to give the Statement sought by hon. Wekesa. When hon. Wekesa sought his Statement, he specifically talked about Trans Nzoia. In his reply, the Vice-Chair never narrowed down to Trans Nzoia, especially in terms of the number of the IDPs. Instead he went ahead to give us IDPs in the provinces and yet provinces do not exist in the current Constitution. What exists now are the counties. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: So, it would have been better if the Vice-Chair gave us the number IDPs in terms of each county. How many IDPs do we have? How many IDPs do we have in Trans Nzoia County? The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: The second issue is that when he talks about the IDPs, from what time is he talking about these IDPs? He should also be able to give us the timeline. Is he talking about the IDPs after the post-election violence of 2007 or he is going far back? This is because in Trans Nzoia, we talk about IDPs of as early as Kenyatta’s time. In 1972, people were evicted from Kaptagat Forest and up to today, those people are still displaced and some are living in Uganda as IDPs. In 1976, people were displaced from Kiboroa Forest, and as we ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: The other issue is when you come to the issue of integrated IDPs, can we also know how many integrated IDPs we have in Trans Nzoia, because this is the biggest challenge that we have? We even have people who are masquerading as Kiboroa squatters when they never even went to Kiboroa or do not know where Kiboroa is. They have just coined the name and they are able to call themselves Kiboroa squatters, yet we know that the people who were displaced--- view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: So, can we have the integrated IDPs? How many of these IDPs do we have? What does the Government plan to do with them? What is in store for them? view