Robinson Njeru Githae

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1301 to 1310 of 2672.

• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, this is a sorry state of affairs. We have not refused to pay. There is only a delay in payment and not refusal. We follow all the court orders. That is why immediately this issue was brought to my attention; I quickly prepared a Cabinet memo and sent it to the Cabinet purely for technical reasons. I am a Member of the Cabinet. I cannot be seen to be going against decisions made by the Cabinet. That is why I have now prepared another memo to rescind the decision that was made by the Cabinet. view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: These are now administrative measures. In addition, I as the Minister for Finance, I am not just concerned about these three people, but I am concerned about everybody who was in the Judiciary and retired at that time. I have even gone further and said that even those who have not gone to court, we have calculated the pensions due to them and the total is about Kshs3 billion. So, I had to consider everybody and not just three. I have the Kshs3 billion to pay all those people. We have moved quite far. view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did not say that. I said that these are now purely administrative issues. I would like to ask my fellow learned friend to also understand that I am a member of the Cabinet. Therefore, I cannot be seen to be going against its decision. So, I am now trying to implement the court decision. This is the procedure. The Government has its procedure. I am now implementing the court decision through that procedure. In fact, the hon. Member needs to commend me that I am now implementing the court decision. view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I fully agree that the Judiciary is now independent. For the current judicial officers, there is no issue at all. It is the ones who have already retired and are not covered by the Judiciary Pension Scheme. I would like to seek for the indulgence of this House because within the next three months, all these procedures will have gone through and I will be able to implement the court order. That is exactly what I am doing. I am actually implementing the court order, but it does not mean that there are no procedures to ... view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have instructed all the line Ministries to provide sufficient and adequate funds for payment as per court orders because this is where the problem comes in. Kenyans may sue the Ministry through the Attorney- General, but the Attorney-General does not have the money. When he requests the line Ministries to give him the monies to pay and they say they have not budgeted for it, it becomes difficult to execute court orders. So we have asked all the line Ministries to prepare and provide for adequate funds to be meeting all the court orders. But ... view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yes, I fully agree with that. What is happening is that they have been paid their pension as per the directive made by the Cabinet but then they went to court. So, for the one that was due to them at that time, they have been paid. We are talking about the enhancement. The answer by the Minister shows that he is implementing the court decision. The answer by the Minister shows that he is not a party to impunity. The answer by the Minister shows that he wants to implement the court’s decision. He is ... view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) In the course of conducting supervision and surveillance as mandated by the law, the Central Bank, from time to time during inspections, comes across banks that are not strictly observing all the requirements of the Banking Act and the Prudential Guidelines issued by the Central Bank as a regulator. However, Section 31(1) of the Banking Act prohibits disclosures or publication of information in the possession of the Central Bank as a result of the performance of its duties under the Act. Accordingly, the CBK is not in a position to give ... view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will do that. I would like to thank hon. Kabogo for that observation that it is Section 31(1) of the Banking Act that prohibits disclosures or publication of information in possession of the CBK as a result of the performance of its duties under the Act. It provides that it does not disclose the financial affairs. I want us to look at this through very sober eyes. Banks are run on trust and confidence. If we are not careful, if a bank gets bad publicity, there is big risk of having a run. Bad ... view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we start giving banks bad publicity, all the depositors will start running to that bank asking for their deposits tomorrow? If you give the names of the banks and the sections they violated, you are in effect--- view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, what I am saying is that--- It has happened to one bank. Some people somewhere decided to give it bad publicity, accused it of so many things and the result is that, that bank was closed. I can give a list of all the provisions that the banks have breached. But I am asking this august House to take into account that we can actually bring down banks because of bad publicity. I am asking this House to take into account that you can actually cause a financial crisis in this country by bringing bad publicity. Let ... view