Japheth Kiplangat Mutai

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 11 to 20 of 122.

• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: are keen on conserving the environment. It is good that you are making this concession on the LPG gas so that we can make it available. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I stand to support the Bill. It has come at the right time against the backdrop of farmers registering the lowest bonus in the last five years. In my constituency, the drop was 45 per cent, something that has been unseen and unheard of in the last five to seven years. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: As it is now, tea is not performing well in the current international market as of last month. If nothing is done, what we had last year will be worse to what will happen this year. It was the wrong move to lump tea with other crops under Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA). Tea is the second highest earner of foreign income to this country. The first being foreign remittance by Kenyans living abroad. Second is tea and third is tourism. Yet, it is surprising that tourism is a full-fledged Ministry while tea is a Directorate under AFA. It does ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: The elephant in the house as regards the problems bedeviling the tea industry is KTDA. KTDA has become a problem for tea farmers. First, KTDA is charged with marketing tea yet, the same KTDA is doing injustice when it comes to marketing tea for the farmers. When it The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: comes to licensing, the same KTDA is mandated to license tea brokers. But there seems to be a conflict of interest because most of the KTDA directors or the board members are the ones who are running those tea brokerage firms. Currently, we have 11 tea brokers in this country. Most of the KTDA senior employees and directors have interest in tea brokerage firms. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Secondly, the same KTDA charges farmers 2.5 per cent as management fee and yet, the same factories have to pay salaries to employees seconded by KTDA to their factories. Why is that the case? That ought to have been covered by the 2.5 per cent management fee being paid. But you will find that the same factory managers and accountants in respective factories across the country are paid by the same farmers. That is piling pressure and unnecessary financial obligations on the farmers. You will find that the same KTDA Company Secretary is the legal officer for respective factories. In ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Likewise, you will find that the same KTDA, as it stands now, has invested the proceeds from tea in other businesses which are outside the core business of tea. You will find Majani Insurance, Green Feather and Chai Warehouses. In all these, the core business of KTDA, which is tea, has been relegated to the back-seat. Farmers do not know where the profits go to. It is difficult to quantify exactly what each farmer is entitled within the KTDA. Profits made by KTDA do not trickle down to the farmers. The current farmer is left to the mercy of an ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: It was a massive mistake to allow a private company to run the affairs of tea farmers in this country. The monopoly that KTDA has is unwarranted. You cannot have one entity that has pure monopoly to be processing tea from all the tea factories within the country. In the Bill, the TBK will have powers to license another outfit like KTDA to avoid one entity having monopoly over everything. It is the same monopoly that we need to get rid of. We are getting rid of monopoly in a structured way whereby licensed entities doing business do not do ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: of a TBK to be managing and regulating the tea industry. Our friends yesterday alluded to the fact that the tea industry has been left to the mercies of many dodgy players within. The issue of research as raised by my colleague here from Ainamoi has been left out. It is unfunded. They lack funds. We are not progressing as an industry because we are not looking for best practices out there so that we can embrace them to ensure tea farmers get maximum returns for their produce. The Tea Research Foundation based in my county of Kericho has been ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view