Uhuru Kenyatta

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• 5 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: In fact, it is not only the tape recordings that are available, but your HANSARD Division also actually has transcribed those tapes. So you can actually get the transcripts of those particular tape recordings. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Committee inquired from Mr. Githongo why he found it necessary to tape his colleagues. Mr. Githongo told us that he did so after he informed His Excellency the President about it. He did it because of the nature of what he was about to do. He said that it was because it would have been his word against the word of all ... view
• 5 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Those individuals and the system is what our Committee, through its recommendations, is asking this House to uproot. Our Committee is not just asking for those individuals to be uprooted, but saying that we can no longer continue to throw away our issues of corruption to some junior servants. Time has come for us as a nation, to begin taking political accountability for our actions. April 5, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 385 Mr. Speaker, Sir, a lot has been said and will continue to be said. However, what is clear and the simple truth is that, unless this House decides to ... view
• 5 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as it will be proved in later contracts, we are paying three times the cost of an item. For example, the police helicopters that were purchased, we paid three times what other countries like India and Pakistan actually paid. It is clear to all of us. I acknowledge that all those contracts are there in the Report and that particular contract was signed, I think, in 2001. It is clear and it is a fact. That would have meant that had we paid the right prices, every single province in this country would have a police helicopter. view
• 5 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Those needy areas where rapid reaction is necessitated and where people are losing their lives, we would be having policemen on the ground to secure the lives of Kenyans. But those lives are not being secured because a few individuals have pocketed that money. view
• 5 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. May I, if you will allow me, answer him in one specific issue that is contained in my Report. The fact that a Ministry in which he is the Minister is actually holding this Committee's work because the audit Report for the 18 projects we are referring to in this Report were actually submitted to his Ministry a long time ago. Why has he not laid those Reports on the Table so that we can deliberate on them? Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue here, as you have correctly stated, is not about an individual, and ... view
• 5 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: That is my former Chairman, and I thank him. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have also recommended in our Report that the Standing Orders Committee, which we understand has not met for a long time, must urgently ensure that Standing Order No.161, which prohibits premature publication of evidence, is re-examined. Why have we recommended this? It is because we Members of Parliament have been constantly accused of talking to the media and leaking information to it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wonder why it should be viewed that way and yet we have already agreed that we should have live ... view
• 5 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, all major Government projects, whether security-related or otherwise, and of a certain magnitude, must receive Cabinet approval. As a Committee, we found it incredible to be told that Kshs2.3 billion or more could be signed out so easily and yet when officers responsible are asked to explain, all they could say is: "I did not know of it. I was misled." It is, therefore, the Committee's view that projects of a certain magnitude must receive Cabinet approval. The Cabinet must be briefed about such projects. By extending the number of people who are aware of what is ... view
• 5 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to request Mr. Kipchumba who has acted as a Vice-Chairman in our Committee to second this Motion. view
• 4 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Public Accounts Committee on April 4, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 277 Special Audit on procurement of passport issuing equipment by the Department of Immigration, Office of the Vice-President and Ministry of Home Affairs laid on the Table of the House on 28th March 2006. ABOLITION OF TAXES ON SUGAR view
• 28 Mar 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, first and foremost audit queries do not die. Audit queries remain until they are adopted or a decision is taken by this House as to what is to happen with regard to those queries. What the House did in rejecting this report, our understanding as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is that we brought back the report to the PAC and I think there have been examples of that being done in the past. On the basis of new evidence, given the fact that audit queries do not die, the PAC resubmitted on a report on the ... view