Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

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• 28 Nov 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support this particular proposal. I request my colleagues to support it so that we can expedite it. I am sure that this is one particular law that will be of interest to all our 47 counties. This is because 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
• 28 Nov 2018 in Senate: they will effectively carry out their duties with respect and honour that is expected of them. With those many remarks, I beg to second. view
• 27 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am a Member of this Committee and I confirm what my Chairperson has said. Some of these issues are very technical and that is why people are struggling to understand the things that he is saying. When the Chairperson was giving the Report, there was commotion and it may have been lost on many Members that he has given a Report which I had earlier alluded to during other businesses of the House. I had talked of the great work that was done by this Committee both in this Session and the Session that lapsed. There ... view
• 27 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to give an update on the activities that have been undertaken by the Ad Hoc Committee on Tea. This Committee was formed after a Motion that I moved in this House a few five months ago. We, as a team of Senators from tea growing counties pooled together our intellectual resources. At that particular time, we felt that the best thing for us to do was to establish an ad hoc Committee to look into the challenges facing this sector. view
• 27 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, as a Committee, visited seven counties. We had very interactive sessions with farmers drawn from all walks of life. We also listened to the multinationals. view
• 27 Nov 2018 in Senate: In each of those sessions, whether it was in Kisii, Kericho, Bomet, Murang’a or Nyeri counties, we could tell our tea farmers are a worried lot. For a long time, tea was considered to be the green gold of this Republic. Many of its farmers were well-to-do people. They could easily feed their children and pay school fees for them without much struggle. However, this sector has been neglected for a long period of time. Currently, our farmers are extremely desperate. Even we, as their leaders, were unable to answer some of the questions they asked us. We asked them ... view
• 27 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we held a total of 14 sittings. We also had other sittings outside the precincts of this Parliament, listening to farmers. view
• 27 Nov 2018 in Senate: Some of our key highlights are: We now have a Bill which should be coming up for First Reading this week or in the course of next week. With the formation of the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), we need to repeal the Tea Act and amalgamate it with all the other crops, including tobacco which is not very useful. They can be taken care of by a directorate in the Ministry of Agriculture. One of the questions the farmers kept on asking us was how comes tea despite being the leading foreign exchange earner in our country is taken ... view
• 27 Nov 2018 in Senate: which is struggling has a full-fledged Ministry dedicated to it. In each of our embassies abroad, we keep on seeing representatives of the Ministry of Tourism purporting to promote tourism. view
• 27 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Bill proposes to devolve tea from the rest of the crops. We are also proposing a strong regulator that will be put in place. We will have people nominated by residents and citizens of those tea growing counties by the Council of Governors (CoG). The Cabinet Secretary (CS) will also propose one or two names to that Committee. view