Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 61 to 70 of 1948.

• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support the Appropriation Bill and say that even as we look at the allocation of funds for various sectors of our economy, we want to interrogate exactly how effective these funds have been. This is a very unique Budget. It is the last Budget of the 11th Parliament. It is also a Budget that has come at a rather queer moment being read several months before due date or the start of the fiscal cycle. We know that even though we deliberate this, the fiscal cycle of this country remains the ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: I just want to express myself on a number of items in the Bill and especially funds that have been allocated to sectors such as agriculture. It has long been said that agriculture is the backbone of the economy of this country and one would expect that since a budget is also a tool for planning and directing resources in areas where you ensure that we answer to the needs of the nation and the needs of our people, it is important to disaggregate the funds that we are sending to the agricultural sector and ask ourselves whether, indeed, we ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: I am also happy to see the kind of support that has been extended to sub-sectors like view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: farmers. I was happy to see the Executive order that has just been released that will enable miraa farmers to access Kshs1.2 billion which will cushion them from the difficulties this subsector has suffered over the last few years since the ban of the export of miraa in some lucrative markets. This is like an affirmative measure. You want to see this kind of affirmative measure extended to other sectors of agriculture. Sugarcane farmers in the western belt, running from Busia all the way to Migori and Trans-Mara, have been facing and continue to face horrible challenges over the years. ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: that needed a marshal plan, kind of boost or support similar to what Government has extended to view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: farmers, it would be the sugarcane farmers in the sugar growing western belt. While I celebrate and I am happy that miraa farmers received Kshs1 billion the other year and are about to receive another Kshs1.2 billion, I ask myself: What do farmers who grow sugarcane in this country need to do to access the kind of support and relief that is extended to farmers such as these? That is the whole essence of equity and running a budget in a manner that is just and fair to all sectors and citizens of this country. I, therefore, want to challenge ... view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: and basic commodities, can actually be delivered, which means that the Budget has to go beyond merely talking the talk, but walk the walk of giving relief. view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I appreciate your magnanimity, my learned senior. Often, we have seen the Government providing, in the budgetary estimates, relief such as the ones that were announced by the CS, that should ideally result in lowering the cost of basic commodities such as unga, sugar and wheat flour, but you do not see those benefits percolating down to the ordinary Kenyan. I just want to urge the Government to go beyond the talk and, indeed, walk the walk of seeing these reliefs reach the ordinary persons, so that when they are in Kibra, Budalang’i or ... view
• 29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Kenya National Examinations Council (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 42 of 2016) sponsored by my honourable brother, Hon. Agoi. The integrity of national exams is a matter of national security because it affects so many other facets of our national life. It is, indeed, a national shame. It is an ignominy of monumental proportions for this country to have experienced the very serious assault on the integrity of our exams in recent times. At the height of the debate on what happened to the KCSE results of 2015, I came ... view
• 29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: What I would insist on is enforcement because this country does not lack in the way of laws; it does not lack in the way of policy but we are so casual, almost lackadaisical in terms of enforcing the laws that we enact. One wants to see the law being enforced very strictly and it is in that respect that this House should register special appreciation for CS, my very good friend, Dr. Matiang’i. Those of us who have been in this House a little longer are familiar with Mr. Matiang’i because at one time he headed a very good ... view