William Ntimama

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 241 to 250 of 280.

• 11 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the Government is doing anything, it is too little, too late. I know the area very well because I live around there. I have been championing the whole process of saving the forest, almost second to my friend hon. Maathai, who, unfortunately is not here today. With regard to Lake Victoria, we were told yesterday by an hon. Member that the water has receded about six metres in and three metres down. This is just because the rivers on the Mau Forest have been interfered with. It is only the international community - I ... view
• 29 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Speech by His Excellency the President to this House. When I peruse through this Speech, I find that the fundamental issues have been omitted. For example, I only see one disjointed sentence which is talking about the constitution and yet, when this Government took over, the President himself promised that this country will have a new Constitution within 100 days. view
• 29 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thousands of days have passed, and yet we have no Constitution. The second one is corruption. I also see one single sentence on corruption which is also disjointed. I tried to decipher the meaning but I could not get it, and yet the President himself promised that the fight against corruption is going to start from him downwards. Now it has fizzled out into thin air. The third one is security. Even security is another disjointed sentence in this Speech. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what Kenyans expect is some serious pronouncements about the three issues. Let me talk ... view
• 29 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: is federalism. It is not a sin to ask to be able to be in charge of your own affairs. When people want to frustrate and dominate other people including their resources, then they say that view
• 29 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: is balkanisation. It is not. It is the right of the people. Some of us have got a lot of friends. We have dug in and we will not move. You might have a new Constitution or not, but we have dug in on devolution and we are just about to move. It is our first strong line of defence and we have dug in, especially us pastoralists. We just cannot have other people coming to dominate us again with the hope of unity, centralism and all these other things. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government must realise that we have ... view
• 30 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, is the Assistant Minister aware that there is an ecological disaster looming because for many years the Government has not been able to protect the environment of this country? Right now, East Mau has caused all these problems because it was destroyed and the rivers flowing to Lake Nakuru and Lake Elementaita have all dried up. The flamingoes have moved to Lake Natron. Is the Assistant Minister aware that even the Mau West area is still being invaded by people who go in and destroy the indigenous forest and yet the Government does not do anything ... view
• 30 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Including the Mau Forest--- view
• 23 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Bill before the House now. First of all, I want to thank the Mover of this Bill, Dr. Ojiambo. This is a very important Bill. It is a very well thought idea to bring this Bill to this House in order to get it enacted into law and also to provide a legal framework for the nutritionists and dieticians in this country. I would also like to thank every other institute, department and all professionals who have helped Dr. Ojiambo to put ... view
• 7 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill on the University of Western Kenya. I want to thank the Ministry and the Minister himself in person for bringing this Bill to this House right now, because it is part of spreading education to the people of this country. We know that education is the basis for any development of any nation. The question of spreading, financing and establishing universities and their constituent colleges is very important. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, a few days ago, I said that this country is ... view
• 2 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. In fact, I want us to realise that this is not a simple matter. This is not just an ordinary matter that we are handling here when nearly all our dons and lecturers are not teaching and our children who are students are being sent home from their universities. It is not a simple matter and with all the due respect to hon. Ms. Karua, and she knows I danced whenever she was elected to whichever side of the House, I have always had a lot ... view