Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I have been listening this morning to the contribution by hon. Members and I want to support all that has been said. I just wanted to say that the issues that the President addressed are not new. In fact, I remember majority of them were there during the campaigns of 2002. If you remember, there were a number of promises which were made that time, which were never fulfilled. You will recall that there was a promise that we were going to get a new Constitution in 100 days after the elections of 2002, but it never came to pass. ... view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: support somebody because he is person from his tribe and then the following day, we are lamenting about it. Some of the views that have been expressed about Amb. Kiplagat in public could be true. But I am happy that the Minister had worked with Amb. Kiplagat. We are the same people who pass these things and then the following day, we deny. That is the highest level of corruption. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think the President missed a lot of issues on corruption. He did not tell us what he intends to do about corruption. Parliament is being ... view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, he is an old Member of this House and he knows what I am talking about. Just by becoming a Minister, you are not going to defend that. Did we not have Motions in Parliament last year which touched on Ministers, on corruption? I know that the Minister is not corrupt but he is not going to defend others who are corrupt. So, please, let him hold his horses like we were told in the morning. view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in fact, I agree. I think the Minister knows what I am talking about. I think he is only trying to take my time. view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I was saying that we are not going to eradicate corruption in this country if we are not going to be specific, but that is not my responsibility. The Constitution says clearly who is in charge of what and what in the Government. It is not meant to offend anybody, but I am only saying that when we address issues like corruption, we must zero down to some specifics in order for them even to serve as examples to those who would wish to play the same kind of cards in future. view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, he has taken quite a bit of my time. But I just wanted to tell the Minister for Information and Communications that we shall be bringing issues in this Parliament regarding that sector and we hope that he will respond to them. This is because Kenyans are suffering. Although we are saying that we want to reform the sector, we now have Safaricom, Yu--- They are using the newspapers today and we are not getting the service. There are so many things that we are going to bring to your Ministry. I hope that you will ... view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the roads money is a big headache to us as Members of Parliament. I am sure as an elected Member of Parliament you must be going through the same pain. There is a lot of trickery and talk through the Press with no action. In fact, the point the point that I want to raise, since you are the Minister you can also prepare for that--- view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Okay, sorry, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I want to ask about a document we have received in our pigeon holes which shows accounts opened in Kenya Commercial Bank by the Ministry of Roads. I do not know whether it is a proper for Ministry to decide to open accounts for Constituency Roads Committees (CRM); one single person or one committee to decide to open an account for Kshs4 billion in one bank. I thought we had agreed that we are devolving funds and these committees can decide where to open an account. In Vihiga, we have about three or four banks. We should be given an ... view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: should we be forced that money must go through KCB? These are the kinds of things that I am talking about. This is corruption. I do not have to substantiate that. Accounts were opened by CRM. Why did we move away from those accounts and have one single person to decide that we must open accounts with KCB? Are we really being fair to ourselves? view