Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1051 to 1060 of 1775.

• 27 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Assistant Minister for Education has been here throughout. I presume he must have been taking some notes under the same collective responsibility. view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the purpose of Questions in this House is to help the Ministers get information on what is happening on the ground. The Assistant Minister says they have ways and means of ensuring that these guidelines are adhered to and that they vary from one school to another. What is he doing to ensure that these figures are standardized? view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister has come up with this Bill, so that Kenyans can read and make comments. The more we are frank with ourselves, the more we will help this country. It makes no sense, or it does not pay for us to conceal what we have gone through in the 2007 elections. We have kept a lot of things to ourselves. There were issues in 1992 and 1997 elections. I believe this was so, because we were not frank with ourselves. As we deliberate on these very important issues, we must always bear in mind ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: If we can get out of the issue of ethnicity in this country, we can do better. I do not know how long this will take. A country like Rwanda learnt from genocide. Even for them to register their people, they do not base it on tribes. I do not know whether Kenyans want to get into that kind of situation to get out of ethnicity. Ethnicity and corruption are very big problems in this country. I do not know what we mean by men of integrity; whether they are professors or what. Maybe one day the Minister will define ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have listened to the contributions by my colleagues and I failed to understand what we can do to fight ethnicity and corruption. But I think if the people we appoint to this Commission are people of integrity, we can do better. We need to change the wording of the oathing, because it has been standard and people have taken it for granted. I do not know what should happen. I heard an hon. Member say that people should be given life sentence, but, to me, that is not a solution. This Parliament should make ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: I wish the Committee which was supposed to deal with this Bill did its work. We should avoid a tag of war on a serious matter like this one. We must avoid appearing to be more combative than others in a matter like this one, which is supposed to take care of the interest of all Kenyans. view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 20 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, last time the ruling was made that the Questioner be given the information to interrogate. I had asked on the same point which the Assistant Minister is just addressing now, about the print media. I was saying that many Kenyans do not access the print media. Could we have other ways of communicating with the locals who may not get this, for instance, the Provincial Administration; the chief’s offices, the District Commissioner’s office and the district officers offices? This is the issue I raised last time and the Assistant Minister did not address it. view
• 20 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion. Since we attained Independence in 1963, it is many years ago. We are now approaching 50 years since we attained our Independence. There have been a lot of changes in this country. During the colonial days, I understand that majority of the Kenyans who were given jobs, the best they could do was clerical jobs. The other jobs that they were able to do were those where they were watchmen and cooks for the view