Wakoli Bifwoli

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, regarding the issue of the Serious Crimes Office of the United Kingdom, there is a Question pending before this House and I will answer in extensor on that. If I may just finish on that question, and then I will respond to the issue of promissory notes. The other one is the Kenya e-Cop Security Law and Order Systems. An amount of €5.3 million has been paid and refunded under the original promissory Notes to secure the finance work returned and cancelled. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, of the terminated contracts, we have recovered a sum of Kshs1 billion. That is a fact. On the issue of the legality of the promissory notes, yes, they were legal and enforceable. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of promissory notes, yes, at the time they were signed, they were valid and binding. They were binding because the proper officials of Government who can bind the Government under our laws actually executed those promissory notes. So, they were binding at that time, but subsequently, when we discovered that these agreements were being used for fraud, on my advice, the Minister for Finance issued a caveat emptor which was published in all the international newspapers which was dated 20th December, 2007 and which includes some of the promissory notes referred to by the ... view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, for now, I cannot give you the amount of money lost because of the nature of the Question that was asked but I am sure the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance can give it to you. As per who the perpetrators were, they are clearly set out in the various reports of the Controller and Auditor-General, PriceWaterHouseCoopers and so on. I can inform you that in those reports and also in the arbitrations that we are handling, we have a Mr. Pereira and a Mr. Kamani as the main people behind these contracts. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the reports of the Controller and Auditor-General are public documents and in fact, they were debated in this House. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as to the answers which she kindly read on my behalf showed, a number of letters have been written to the Judiciary to expedite the typing out of proceedings and judgement so that we can proceed with it to expedite the mention of those cases so that we can have directions where the cases concern the appeal. That is where the problem is. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government and the Attorney-General want these cases to be concluded expeditiously. We want the Legal Mutual Assistance Bill which I have published to be enacted by this Parliament immediately. The list she tabled included these cases and I was not here when she was answering the Question but she may recall that I gave her a schedule and the last column showed when the applications were done and when the various reminders had been sent to the Judiciary. That information is here. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you take advantage by writing appropriate letters to the Judiciary to tick the case for hearing. I am saying that in the answer that the former hon. Minister gave at that time, I had given her the schedule, including the reminders that went to the Judiciary to seek hearing for these cases. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my reaction is this; I do not have a problem at all in the Committee scrutinizing these matters because I have nothing to hide. Having said that, the reasons for asking for that do not really arise out of this Question because he said that: “In view of the fact that I am unable to disclose the amount of loss that has been incurred.” That does not really arise out of this Question because this Question is about the status of the various cases. Just the current status! Therefore, that does not arise out of this Question. ... view
• 13 May 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view