Soita Shitanda

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 121 to 130 of 148.

• 23 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to contribute on this Motion. Listening to hon. Members contribute to this Motion, one would be tempted to be very worried about what this country is going to go through in the next few days. The IDPs we have today are as a result of, as we understood, the Presidential election results which were disputed. Immediately after that we had the reconciliation process. The National Accord and Reconciliation Bill was brought in this House and passed. We had the Grand Coalition Cabinet formed and now we have a Grand Coalition Government. ... view
• 23 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am sorry if I hurt any of my colleagues. However, what I was trying to say is that when you are a leader and you are confronted with an issue and you decline to deal with that issue at that moment on the pretext that you want to go back and ask the people who elected you to tell you how to resolve that issue, I do not know the terminology I can use, but I think that is becoming a captive of your own voters. When we talk about this issue of resettling IDPs, it ... view
• 23 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you talk about the security of the IDPs, if I am your neighbour who was chased away from my farm and I am only coming back to my farm, but you are now talking about my security, what about my neighbour who is living there now? This means security for the people who will go back is something which we have to seriously address. We need to establish the kind of security we will provide to IDPs who will be going back to their farms. Why are we giving them security when they have lived ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, while appreciating the Government's efforts in trying to address this problem, what is happening with the farm inputs is sheer exploitation by profiteers. Could the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs tell us what the Government will do to ensure that the people who import fertiliser do not take advantage of the farmers, especially during this planting season, to charge any price they wish? view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to seek clarification on two issues. A decongested Central Business District (CBD) means that the matatus will be consuming less fuel. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the introduction of a shuttle transport system within the CBD means that commuters who alight at Muthurwa have to board other matatus to get to their places of work. I would like to know from the Minister what he is going to do to cushion the commuters against the added cost in terms of fare. Secondly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Minister has talked about a move that he ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: What is the Minister going to do before he implements that move to ensure that there is discipline 364 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 25, 2008 in the transport system operating within the CBD? view
• 20 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Last week, I requested for a Ministerial Statement from the Ministry of Local Government in regard to the crisis in the transport sector, especially in the Eastlands of Nairobi City. The Leader of Government Business promised that the Statement would be given to this House. To date, that Statement has not been given to this House. I was just wondering whether the Minister for Local Government is still waiting for an opportunity to either resolve the problem or to come and explain to this House what he is doing about the problem. ... view
• 13 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to ask for a Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Local Government regarding his decision to ban matatus from accessing the Central Business District (CBD). This decision has left very many commuters inconvenienced, with some of them having to walk five kilometres to their places of work. Imagine a situation whereby a commuter from Eastlands is dropped at the City Stadium and his place of work is at Community! This commuter will walk a distance of almost five kilometres to reach his place of work. I would like to know from the Minister what he ... view
• 11 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, while I support this Motion, I would like to make a request to the HBC that as they start their sitting today or tomorrow, they should bear in mind that, for five years, in the last Parliament, Members managed to pass about 34 Bills only. Kenyans out there were very annoyed with that Parliament and that is why more than 80 per cent of those Members are not in this House today. Mr. Speaker, Sir, looking at this list of names, we want to request them to set a target of passing, at least, more than 100 ... view
• 30 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think we should stop being hypocritical about that clause that is being deleted. When that clause was proposed in this House, there were a lot of hon. Members on both sides of the House and not one of them stood to oppose it. It was just after the members of the public and Press pressurised out there, that some hon. Members who were not present in the Chamber started pretending that they were also against that clause. However, the truth of the matter is that when the clause was ... view