Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, I want to congratulate the Minister for Finance. For the short time that this Minister has been in office, we have seen tremendous improvement in that Ministry. For the first time, he is demystifying the Ministry of Finance. We are seeing the Ministry of Finance operating like any other Ministry. So, I want to laud the Minister. He is very simple, accommodative and doing a good job. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, this is a very important Bill. This is a Bill ... view
• 8 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: The first one is the fishing industry in this country. Did you know that Kenya has 200 nautical miles of the Indian Ocean, where we have so much fishery resources yet we are not exploiting them at all? If you take a small country like Namibia, fish is her first export, yet her range of ocean is smaller than that of Kenya. If we exploit this industry, Kenya will become a major fishing country in the world. We could create thousands of jobs, but this industry lies fallow. Nobody is exploiting it. A few of the Japanese and Korean trawlers ... view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons the following Question by Private Notice. (a) Is the Minister aware that Kenyan youths who are 18 years and above are unable to register to be issued with National Identity Cards because they are required to pay Kshs100? (b) Is he further aware that the people who lost their identification cards are required to pay Kshs.400 for a replacement? (c) Could the Minister confirm that the Ministry does not have a clear policy on this matter as exhibited by the contradictory directives in ... view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the answer that has been given by the Minister. If it is true that identity cards are now being issued free of charge, that is good news. However, I wish to request him to write a circular to all his officers throughout the country, so that they can effect what he has said. His officers on the ground are charging Kshs100 for new registration and they say that this money is for a photograph. They are charging Kshs300 for replacement of identity cards because that is what is in the gazette notice. Could he commit ... view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Minister for being categorical on what the situation on this registration of IDs is. But I still would like to beg the Minister to provide the circular he has said they have prepared to Members of Parliament so that we can have the circular. This is to ensure that when we go to the constituency we can show this circular to his officers because they still insist on payment. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for allowing me to make my contributions to this very important amendment Bill. First, I want to thank the Committee and Eng. Rege for bringing this amendment. This is very timely. Secondly, I want to thank the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) for a commendable work they have done in the distribution of electricity in our constituencies. This is a commendable job and now most of our constituencies have a supply of power. But the problem we have throughout the whole country is vandalism. The vandalism of transformers has become so rampant that ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: However, we have these criminals who, after this good work is done, come and vandalize these fibre optic cables and they make the whole programme a mess. It is, therefore, important that these people must be punished thoroughly. So I want to congratulate the Committee for coming up with very punitive measures so that these criminals are severely punished. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Scrap metal and road furniture contributes a lot to this problem. In my own constituency, for example, people have lost jembe, sufurias and other items to metal dealers. So, it is important for us to come up with stringent measures to punish metal dealers who buy these stolen metal materials from these vandals. We should punish them very severely, so that we deal with this problem once and for all. I agree with hon. Njuguna that a penalty of Kshs500,000 for scrap metal dealers who buy stolen materials from the vandals is not adequate. I would want an amendment to ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: So, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support this Bill. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Policy. First and foremost I want to thank the Ministry and other collaborating Ministries, particularly the Ministry of Fisheries, Ministry of Cooperative Development and Marketing and Ministry of Livestock Development. For the first time in the history of this country, we will come up with one co- ordinated policy on extension. This is very crucial because this policy addresses the issue of food security for this country. It is very logical that all the Ministries or all the sectors involved in the production of food in this country should work ... view