Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

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• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, that is not what I meant. I would wish to inform my colleague that this particular Motion is about Community Forest The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: Associations; how you get the participation of a specific community to take care of their forest? That is why I was suggesting that these communities should get young people and have them trained at the Kenya School of Forest Conservation as forest officers, and redeployed back to their communities to do conserve the forests there. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Ad hoc Committee inquiring into the challenges facing the tea sector in Kenya laid on the Table of the Senate on Thursday, 25th July, 2019. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: This is the work of a Committee that I was privileged to chair. It comes at a very important time when there is hue and cry all over the country because of the challenges that are being experienced in the tea sector. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: We, as a Committee, sat down and listened to the cries of various tea farmers from across this country. We began our meetings in Kisii County. We went to Bomet, Kericho and the former Central Province. We listened to farmers narrating to us challenges bedeviling this particular sector. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: We also listened to some key players in this industry. We listened to the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and East African Tea Trade Association; the body that brings together the brokers that sell tea in Mombasa. We also listened to Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), which is the body that was an amalgamation of all the previous various crop departments in the Ministry of Agriculture. All those departments were collapsed and formed AFA department in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. We even invited the Attorney General, who unfortunately by the time ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, one of the issues that we kept on grappling with is the KTDA because when it was setup, it was a parastatal. That is how it functioned for many years. However, through a Cabinet Sessional Paper, it was converted into a private entity. Our farmers were left at the hands of people, who to the best of my opinion and that of our Committee, have not been diligent at protecting the interests of our poor farmers. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: We, as a Committee, were grappling with the question which up to now remains unanswered. What do you do with an entity that for all the assets they have and market share they control, they got it when they were a parastatal? Now that it has become a private entity and the Government does not have a way of controlling its operations. Perhaps this is one of the private entities that controls the economies of more than a million homes in this country. How is it that the Government can fold its hands and say that there is very little ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: like Green Feather, the energy generating companies, Chai Trading which is a warehousing and tea trading company benefit farmers? How do all these subsidiaries translate to useful gain to the farmers at the end of the day? Only a proper audit of the operations of this company during the last 18 years will be able to unravel the answers to all these questions. We must know whether the people we represent in this particular House have been taken advantage of or have received value for money out of this particular exercise. Mr. Speaker, Sir, another issue was that in 2012, ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a matter that will interest many of my colleagues based on the indications that I am getting. Therefore, I would like to stop here and allow the rest of my colleagues to make contributions or even propose further recommendations to the report. We want conclude it immediately and forward it for other considerations. With those very many remarks, I beg to move and ask Sen. Omogeni to Second. view