Amason Kingi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this document should be ready within the year so that we can begin to utilize its recommendations. However, I just want to encourage the people of Gusiiland not to sit and wait for investors to either come from outside the county or outside the country. They themselves can take advantage of those investment opportunities and invest in that county. As a Ministry, we have financial institutions that lend small loans to investors especially local ones. They can get loans from the Industrial Development Bank (IDB) under the Ministry and the Kenya Industrial Estates (KIE) to ... view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not ready to answer this Question now, the reason being that the answer that was made available to me last evening needed further interrogation, which I did; and it requires further fine-tuning. I am ready to come back either in the afternoon or tomorrow, to answer this particular Question. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those are the same questions I posed to my staff, to which I did not get a very convincing answer. However, it is for me to sort out my house. For purposes of this House, I beg to be allowed to answer the Question either this afternoon or tomorrow morning. view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware. (b) The Government Chemist results have indicated that the fish died due to a chemical called cyhalothrine which is a carbonate. This chemical was found in the water, soil, and fish samples that were collected and analyzed. This chemical is used as a pesticide and could have been washed into the river by the rains that were experienced during that period. The pesticide hydrolyses within 24 hours upon exposure to the open environment. Therefore, future death reports cannot be expected. The responsible Government Ministries and agencies will intensify ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have not yet identified the particular source of this pesticide. However, we have already talked to the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), that is, the agency mandated to enforce the Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act. First of all, we need to give information to the people living along this particular river so that they become aware that they are not supposed to dump any pesticides in the river. Secondly, we have requested NEMA to come up with a programme that will ensure that there is a good monitoring and evaluation of the environmental systems within and ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a Ministry, we are concerned about the number of incidences where fish is losing lives. We have talked to NEMA because it is the Government agency mandated to enforce the environmental regulations. We indicated to them that we need to see a lot of vigilance as far as all the aquatic waters are concerned. Our aim is to eradicate situations where we are losing fish. In fact, we are not only losing fish in the national aquatic water bodies, but also in some of the ponds we are constructing in quite a number of constituencies. When ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, at this moment I may not be in a position to quantify the loss as a result of this particular unfortunate incident. However, point and non-point source pollution does not affect only one section of a river. If chemicals are drained in a river, they are carried downstream by the water. Therefore, at this particular time, I may not zero in on the Mara area. We may have to look at the entire river to see how many fish, indeed, died. This is a difficult exercise because, maybe, a lot of the fish were washed downstream and ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a Ministry, we do not have a dedicated unit that is mandated to do surveillance of the Mara River. However, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is helping in this regard. Even the kind of analyses I have managed to produce and table here today are as a result of the KWS collecting samples and taking them to our national laboratories. Therefore, we do not have a dedicated unit that is supposed to do surveillance of our rivers and ocean. Last year, I presented a Memorandum before the Cabinet to be allowed to set up a coast ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have not gone to that extent to identify exactly which farm used this pesticide on its crops. However, while gathering this information, we indicated that we need to know whether there is a factory along the Mara River so that we can establish the point of pollution. We also need to know whether there are many activities along the riparian banks of this river so that we can begin to look at non-point source pollution. We have not yet established which farm used this pesticide and, therefore, hold it fully responsible for the death of the ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, sometime last year, I presented a Cabinet memorandum on the dwindling catches of the Nile perch and tilapia on Lake Victoria; one of the fundamental reasons for this was pollution of the lake waters. Therefore, a Cabinet subcommittee was constituted to look into this matter. I believe this particular subcommittee will handle this issue as we handle the issue of Lake Victoria. view