William Ntimama

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 151 to 160 of 280.

• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, from the outset I support the amendment fully. I want to say very briefly because we are short of time and we will, probably, need to see the results of this amendment. I took a lot of time to read this Report. I was a bit surprised because the Report in a big way talked about the storage of maize, shipping, export and quite a lot of other things. However, I never came to see what they really want done. They recommended that the Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority investigates, the issue did not give us the ... view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you involve a very important person like the Prime Minister and his family, then you ought to show us what they have done. There is no need at all to say what these people have done. They do not even identify the members of the family. It shows that definitely there was some malice about the whole thing. There was innuendo and character assassination. We cannot have those things going on among our people. We know that this maize is our staple food. As an hon. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of the PSs, they should have shown us clearly what they have done for the Committee to arrive at a very severe verdict that they should be sacked. Of course, they have not also told us what the General Manager of the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) has done. I want to say very frankly that the Minister and the PS work together. They are completely inseparable. Definitely, if the Minister did not know what the PS was doing, then he was sleeping on his job. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: We cannot condemn the PS and the General Manager of the NCPB because we do not see, in the Report, anything that they have done. An ordinary letter does not warrant the Committee to condemn a person in that manner. Therefore, I want to say that I support the amendment, and say that we must always be careful, as I said yesterday. I was very satisfied with yesterday’s Report, because the Committee investigated the matter and gave us a comprehensive Report that cleared the Minister, and many other people, of any irregular actions. However, I cannot say that this particular ... view
• 13 May 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support this Motion very strongly. I want to thank the two very able Chairmen of the two Committees, Finance, Planning and Trade Committee and the Budget Committee for coming together and giving us this wonderful Report, which is well balanced. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also wish to thank the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance because he gave the Committee support and data relating to the issue at hand. He also supported them to investigate this issue which nearly became a big scandal. I really want to thank Mr. ... view
• 13 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, recently we have been criticized by the public so much. In this Parliament we have been grouping like birds of a feather. When a person of your community is criticized or accused of committing a crime of fraud, we all gang up to protect him even if he has “eaten”. This is not the case for this particular Committee. They have done their best and we commend them for that. We have to build trust in this House. We have to be trusted by the public. Recently, we have been targets of criticism by the ... view
• 5 May 2009 in National Assembly: No, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 23 Apr 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am going to be very brief in my contribution. view
• 23 Apr 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, people who think we are operating on the Constitution, are behind us. We are operating on the Coalition Government. It is said very clearly that if there is a conflict between the old Constitution and the Coalition Government, then definitely the Coalition must take precedence. We are in this condition because this country got itself into big problems. If we were not organized, if we did not create the Coalition Government, if our friends outside this country did not help us, we would be in the deep heats of the world today. Definitely, this is what people ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say emphatically that I support this Motion. It is very important that we take care of the teachers of this country. This is because the education sector is one of the most important sectors in the development of this country. Only equal to that is the Ministry of Agriculture which helps to feed the people of this country. view