Sammy Arthur Weya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will not withdraw. I am carrying on with the Motion. view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. First of all, I want to thank my colleagues who have supported this Motion, that is, hon. Ochilo-Ayacko, hon. Capt. Nakitare, hon. Kosgey, hon. Tarus, hon. Biwott, hon. Kipchumba and hon. Sudi. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to congratulate Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the House, for embracing ICT within this Ninth Parliament, because before that, there was no ICT in this Parliament. So, I congratulate him for availing that facility and enabling this Parliament to have a website. I remember, at the beginning of this Parliament, ... view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to inform the hon. Member, because he might not be having a clear insight of how Safaricom Limited was created. When Safaricom Limited was formed in this country, its investment was about Kshs2 billion. But the company has generated huge sums of money from Kenyan people, because they are the ones who use these airwaves. Therefore, the returns on investment of that company is a huge amount of money. So, it would be good if some of the money that is generated by the company went back to the rural areas to ... view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is very much aware that Safaricom Limited is being run by multinationals and the people there are the Chief Executive and- -- 2232 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 4, 2007 view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are not debating about the shareholding, because we know that even the Chief Executive Officer, does not display parastatal number plates on his company car. So, we know what is happening in Safaricom Limited. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir--- view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: We are talking about the same thing! view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Wamwere is not a businessman. We are speaking the same language. It is like Kenya Airways and all these other companies. Kenya Airways is a multinational company. It is a shareholding. The Government has a stake in it, but it is still run by multinationals. It has got shareholding with KLM. So, we are talking about the same language. Safaricom has got Vodafone as a shareholder. Vodafone is a multinational company. Does he think that Vodafone is a local company? We are talking the same language and I do not know why--- view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know why he is getting there. I have got a lot of things to discuss and talk about. I am responding and so let him not interfere July 4, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2233 because he had his opportunity to speak. view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was telling him it is being run by multinationals. view
• 4 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me continue with my response. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what we are trying to embrace in this country of ours is e-commerce, e-government and also e-parliament, if necessary. Hon. Members of Parliament do not necessarily have to come to Parliament to be able to contribute or present themselves here. In the morning from their residences or constituencies like in many parts of the world, all they need to do is to log in and they will be keyed in and listening to what is happening in Parliament. They will be able to follow ... view