Amason Kingi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on Thursday, I am scheduled to attend a function in Mombasa. view
• 16 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, today in the morning, I received a letter from the Clerk’s Chambers dated 15th November, 2011 enclosing this particular Question with the advice that the same would appear on tomorrow’s Order Paper. Therefore, I was surprised to see it on today’s Order Paper. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware of the EU funded project and not the World Bank project. (i) Delays in procurement and delivery of the cold storage equipment and non- clearance of duty has caused the temporary stalling of the projects. However, the Ministry applied for exemption of taxes on the equipment. (ii) The clearance letter was received from the Ministry of Finance and the installation of the ice making machines at Nyandiwa and Sori have been completed. (b) The EU funded project allowed for only 10 per cent variations per site. The original ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the concerns raised by the hon. Member have already been addressed by the Ministry. As we speak, there is no project that has stalled. All these issues have been addressed. Most of those projects are either complete or ongoing. So, the Member needs not worry about those issues. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that project is being coordinated from Jinja by the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization. This is a project which is funded by the EU and it is pursuant to a directive or a resolution of EU. Therefore, each country was supposed to develop six landing sites to international standards. The reason why I said that some of those projects delayed - especially on our part - was because we need to handle the issue of taxation at the Port of Mombasa with the Ministry of Finance. That has already been resolved. Therefore, all these projects are underway. ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is anticipated that by the end of this year, we will have put behind the issue of that project. They will be up and running and, therefore, the fishermen will meet the standards required under the EU Market. There will be no hiccups as far as accessing the EU Market is concerned. view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. In the month of August, 2011, Mr. Kutuny sought a Ministerial Statement from my Ministry regarding the sacking of the KEBS boss. That statement was supposed to be delivered today. I am ready with the Statement here, but Mr. Kutuny is not here. view
• 17 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I respond, this particular Question was supposed to be responded to last Wednesday. However, I was not in the House when it was called, the reason being that I was unwell and my Assistant Minister was out of town. I wrote a letter to your office explaining the circumstances. Indeed, I did seek your indulgence so that I might be allowed to proceed to answer this Question today. view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that there is a shortage of staff. (b) I am also aware that there was a shortage of nets. (c) To address (a) above, the Ministry has done the following. 1. Recruited 100 fisheries officers during the 2009/2010 financial year; 2. The Ministry has advertised vacancies for additional fisheries extension officers in the 2010/2011 financial year. Following the advertisement, the Ministry recruited 287 of the anticipated 480 extension officers. This was due to shortage of applicants with the requisite qualifications. We have distributed the recruited staff to all the ... view