10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sorry my brother Eugene, the Gazette Notice under which we operate strictly covers those affected by the Post-Election Violence of 2007. Until we are through with this group, we are not able to cover the 1992 group. Our mandate will be expanded once we are done with that.
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10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, each household will be given two and a quarter acres of land.
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10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have the proposed acreages of land where we are supposed to settle these 6,000 households. We have documents showing the list of the households all of whom need to be resettled. Unfortunately, I do not have it with me. If the hon. Member can come to my office, he will have a copy with him.
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10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Mau Forest evictees are in our register as IDPs, however, they are not all in our group to be resettled. Some have their own land and the Government is providing them with food, security and all other necessities. Those who do not have land have been considered.
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10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am sorry I cannot hear what the hon. Member is saying!
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10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sorry because the allegation that the resettlement exercise was taken away from the Ministry of State for Special Programmes to the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security and then to the Ministry of Lands is, indeed, misleading. At no one time has that exercise been taken away from our Ministry. It has always been complementary. Government Ministries work together to tackle such kinds of complex exercises. As for assurances, I have been assuring you, time and again, that we are going to tackle that issue. It is only that land has been ...
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10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The amount of maize currently held as SGR is 3,082,397 bags each weighing 90 kilogrammes. (b) In this financial year, the Ministry has a budgetary allocation of Kshs1 billion for the SGR. At the current price of Kshs1,500 per bag, that amount can purchase about 666,666 kilogrammes of a 90 kilogramme bag of maize.
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10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree with the hon. Member that the amount is rather small compared to the need and level that we had initially targeted. But for the last financial year, although his Question was very specific - it was about this financial year! I did not quite look at it. However, we need 8,000,000 bags in the SGR stores at any one time. So, there is a clear shortfall of about 4,000,000 bags. But we have held discussions with the Treasury and we have been assured that more funds will be released so that we will be able ...
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10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry and the Minister are very serious. The purchase of the number of bags that I have mentioned will commence immediately. I just want to assure you that a meeting was held only yesterday as far as this matter is concerned and the remaining funds are being arranged. So, no farmers will be stranded with the produce that they have! The buying has commenced and we will continue throughout the year.
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10 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry is, indeed - I repeat again - very serious.
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