26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rose to bring out one issue; that this Bill has successfully been enacted today by this House because the Minister took time. He invited Members of Parliament and other stakeholders to a workshop where they had all the time to go through the Bill. I remember that there were reports in the newspapers that the Minister had invited Members of Parliament to Mombasa to go and bribe them. These are the allegations that we really need to stop as Members of this august House. When you issue those kinds of statements, you are hurting not ...
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26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, you can see that the way the Committee has done its work is actually what is going to happen in the new dispensation when we will have the county governments, the two chambers of the House and when Ministers will no longer be Members of Parliament. It is going to be a House of committees. Everything will be done by the committees exactly the way the Chairman has done. Were it not the fact that the Chairman of the Committee wants to be the president of this country, I would have recommended him to be ...
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26 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
With those few remarks, I beg to second.
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19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. You have already ruled that there is really no connection between the Supplementary Budget and the Finance Bill. You have also ruled that the Supplementary Budget is based on the Appropriations Act which has already been passed by this House. Therefore, just to reiterate what Mr. Amos Kimunya has said, after we have passed the Supplementary Budget, we will bring the Supplementary Appropriations Bill. That is the time you will be able to see whether we are in breach of the Constitution or not. In my view, we need to proceed.
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19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- (i) THAT, a sum not exceeding Kshs32,229,309,230 be granted from the Consolidated Fund to meet expenditure during the year ending 30th June, 2012, in respect of Supplementary Estimates of 2011/12 Financial Year (Recurrent) having regard to the proposed reduction of Kshs10,477,941,240 therein appearing. (ii) THAT, a sum not exceeding Kshs7,841,257,830 be granted from the Consolidated Fund to meet expenditure during the year ending 30th June, 2012, in respect of Supplementary Estimates of 2011/12 Financial Year (Development) having regard to the proposed reduction of Kshs25,091,468,240 therein appearing.
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19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I presented the Budget for the year 2012, it assumed a strong economic growth and stable micro-economic environment. Our financial
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19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is Mr. Mbadi in order to mislead this House that the amount of money that has been allocated to defence forces is being paid elsewhere, yet we have not yet received a single cent from Amison or the United Nations. They are saying that it is going to take at least six months. In the meantime we have to shoulder the burden.
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19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I thank the Members of this august House for the support they have given to the Supplementary Budget. I will only talk about three issues that have come up. One is on the Lamu Port – South Sudan – Ethiopia Corridor and I would like to assure this House that it is just a coincidence that it is being inaugurated during an election year. This has nothing to do with elections whatsoever. In any case, I would not even have allowed it to be part of electioneering and if I had ...
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19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:-
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