Robinson Njeru Githae

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• 6 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will table this letter. I was using it. As I said, if I had those powers, I would have today given instructions; but I have read out what the Constitution says. These matters have not been agreed upon. The restructuring agreement was agreed upon; it was a negotiated document between the CBK and the Charterhouse Bank. Under Section 3 of the Banking Act, the qualified person was there to assist the bank to give confidence to depositors and the public. How long he will last there depends on when the Charterhouse Bank officials themselves, or the ... view
• 6 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is two pages long. view
• 6 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on 7th August, 2012, hon. Danson Mungatana sought a Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Finance on the Political Parties Fund. view
• 6 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to respond as follows: The Political Parties Fund has a budgetary allocation under the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties, Vote 168 in the Financial Year 2012/2013. In the draft Budget Estimates submitted to Parliament, Treasury had proposed an allocation of Kshs250 million to the Political Parties Fund. The Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs discussed and reviewed the estimates of the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties for the Budget Estimates, as per the requirement of the Constitution. The Committee recommended the need for Treasury to adhere to Section 24(1) (A) ... view
• 6 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, the Budget Committee recommendations also reduced the overall vote allocation from Kshs430 million to view
• 6 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also rise to condemn the utterances that were reported in the media. I could give this House a story. When my Finance Bill was passed, there were same accusations that money had passed hands. I confronted the person who was reported in the media to have said that. He said, “I heard”. I asked him if he knew who had been paid. He said, “No, I heard”. I asked him, “What did you hear?” He said, “I heard”. I asked again, “from whom?” He said, “from somewhere”. So, I concluded that this was simply rumor mongering ... view
• 6 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the amendments proposed by the Minister. I wish to commend her and her staff for these amendments. They are long overdue. I am saying this because our sugar continuous to be very expensive. It is shocking that sugar can come all the way from Brazil and it is cheaper when it lands at the Port of Mombasa. The main reason is inefficiency of our factories. Every year, we go to COMESA to ask for extension, so at to limit the number of tonnes of sugar that can be view
• 6 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Yes, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have no monopoly of knowledge and he is an expert in the sugar sector. view
• 6 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you for those two important pieces of information. As I said, there is no monopoly of knowledge. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Tribunal is weak. It has to be given teeth now in order for it to implement its own decisions because that has been the problem. It makes decisions, but they are not implemented. Concerning the poaching of sugar cane, our philosophy is soko huru meaning that we do our business in a liberalized economy. Let the sugar factories be allowed to compete on prices. If this sugar factory is giving you a better price, take your sugar ... view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also rise to support the amendments. However, there has been a lot of bashing here by the Members against the Executive that the Executive has delayed this Bill and the formulation of these rules. According to the Constitution that we passed in this House, the IEBC is an independent body. It has nothing to do with the Executive. It cannot be supervised. In fact, the Executive is doing the IEBC a favour by bending ourselves to support them, so that they can get out of this mess that they find themselves in. view