Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1371 to 1380 of 1948.

• 28 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to take the Minister back to Gwassi, because I believe this matter is really critical. I want to say that I spent my last weekend in Gwassi, and it is absolutely a beautiful place that I will encourage hon. Members to spend their leisure time in. view
• 28 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Looking at this map, and I believe the Minister is familiar with this map of the Gwassi Hill Forest, it amounts to additional ten blocks. I realize that the Minister was proposing to have an additional ten blocks to the already existing and gazetted 4,800 hectares of land. This is a massive measure that the Minister should not lightly sweep aside, and say he is rescinding. My question is this: Before the Ministry took the decision to add these ten blocks to the Gwassi Hill Forest, what had it done to protect the already existing 4,800 hectares of land, and ... view
• 28 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Education:- (a) What is the status and terms of service for teachers employed by TSC on contract terms in the 2009/2010 Financial Year, (b) When and how the Government plans to absorb the contract teachers on permanent and pensionable terms, and, (c) What is the success rate of the contract teacher’s initiative and what is the fate of this initiative. view
• 28 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am saddened and, indeed, my heart bleeds for the 18,000 young men and women that this Ministry engaged under this programme. Let it go on the record of this House that I placed this Question before this Minister two months ago. The answer that the Assistant Minister has brought to this House is straight from the archives. This is exactly the same answer the Minister brought to this House and was asked to go back and bring a more substantive answer especially with regard to part “b” of the Question which requires him to outline ... view
• 28 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for three months since I asked this Question the Ministry has prevaricated; it has circumlocuted; it has ducked; it has taken every possible effort to avoid making a commitment. Meanwhile, 18,000 young Kenyans from Budalangi to Kinango, Loitokitok to Wajir are waiting to know their fate from this Ministry unequivocally, without prevarication. You can see the mood of this House confirming that yesterday they passed a Report of the Budget Committee unanimously. The mood here is indicative that any legislative measure brought to this House in the form of the Appropriation Bill to actualize the intent ... view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. Let me start by thanking the hon. Member for Ainamoi, Mr. Benjamin Langat, for bringing this Motion in appreciation of the very serious constraints currently facing the ordinary Kenyan today because the cost of living that has literally shot through the roof. This has been contributed to, to a very large extent, by the incredibly high cost of fuel. I also want to take due note that the hon. Member is not proposing subsidy across the board. What is being proposed here is a Consumer Petroleum Fuel Subsidy Fund ... view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I currently chair a Select Committee of this House that has been looking into this matter of the high cost of living. We have taken time, as a Committee of this House, to investigate these matters at length. We did convene meetings with industry players in the energy sector, including the Minister for Energy, his Permanent Secretary and all the key parastatals under this Ministry, including the National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK), the Kenya Pipeline Company and the Kenya Petroleum Refineries in Mombasa. What we have already noticed at a very preliminary stage is ... view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: contains not less than 21 recommendations on what needs to be done in the medium- term, to ensure that the ordinary Kenyan gets some relief. view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, among the recommendations that this Committee has already made in its preliminary Report is tackling certain inherent weaknesses within the energy sector that include the manner in which oil products are imported and processed in this country. One of the fundamental problems in this country is that the country does not even have a national oil strategic reserve that could cushion it in terms of unexpected shocks, like the shocks we have witnessed recently due to the unrest in the Maghreb world. view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, among other things, we have also noticed that the cost of running and maintaining the Kenya Petroleum Refineries in Mombasa is one of the factors that add to the high cost of fuel products in this country. Indeed, the inefficiencies within the refinery system alone add not less than Kshs7 per litre at the pump. This means that by merely dealing with the inefficiencies in the Kenya Petroleum Refineries and the supply chain through the Kenya Pipeline Company network, we would considerably reduce the cost of fuel products in this country. But we need to appreciate ... view