Benjamin Jomo Washiali

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1031 to 1040 of 1882.

• 11 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset I want to thank Hon. Julius K. Melly for bringing this Motion and also to thank Members, especially the ones who have already contributed. I have been listening keenly to their contributions. If you remember, in the last Parliament I was kicked out of this House for trying to bring amendments to a Motion that was meant to affect one of the public officers who then was the governor of Nairobi, but he has since lost that position. As I thank Hon. Melly for bringing this Motion, I would really wish ... view
• 11 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: zoning so that a sugar miller must know where his farmers are. We must also take care of other sugar factories that have taken advantage of this and frustrated farmers a lot. But the aspect of sugar-cane farming which has always been encouraging sugar development, I think if we have to move forward, we must reintroduce that sugar factory zoning. There is also the aspect of the Sugar Development Levy. At one point the CS in charge of finance came up with a policy and just scrapped the Sugar Development Levy. This has really affected the sugar growing zones because ... view
• 11 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I withdraw. However, just as the saying goes, even if I withdraw, at least, he has heard what I said. view
• 11 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I summarise, I had informed Hon. Melly that we need to sit together. At one point, we had a caucus of Members of Parliament who represented sugar-cane farmers. I think we need to re-introduce that caucus so that we sit together and draft a Bill that will address these problems once and for all. This is because I know if we have a sector that is well managed; it could create employment for our people. It will also create income for our farmers and improve the economy of the sector where these factories are. It ... view
• 11 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was talking of a Report that came to this House in the last Parliament. The management board of Mumias Sugar Company instituted Kiynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG) to do a forensic audit which was done and brought to this House. We followed it and at one point it was brought to this House. We need to make a follow up in this 12th Parliament because of the implementation aspect. We had recommendations that we had made as a House and we need to make sure that they are followed so that we can ... view
• 11 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. With a lot of respect to my brother and colleague, who is actually doing his second term, I expected him to inform this House that the recurrent expenditure for nurses which today has made them go to the streets is a budget that is catered for by county governments. Therefore, the salaries of the nurses, if any, should be catered for under the county government budget, which this Government has already made. In due course, the county governments will be receiving money which will then make them negotiate with ... view
• 11 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 11 Oct 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, is the Member in order to mislead the House by saying that he does not know that the livestock portfolio is a devolved function managed by the county governments? In fact, what we are giving in these Supplementary Estimates is only additional. The County Government of Turkana gets more than Kshs13 billion. Can he confine himself to what the county government could have done instead of misleading the House? view
• 27 Sep 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: Supplementary Estimates I Programme Based Budget of the National Government of Kenya for the year ending 30th June 2018 and the Explanatory Memoranda. Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Board of Management of the National Hospital Insurance Fund for the year ended 30th June 2016. Reports of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements in respect of the following institutions for the year ended 30th June, 2016 and certificates therein: 1. Dedan Kimathi University of Technology; 2. Consolidated Fund Services - Public Debt; 3. National ... view
• 27 Sep 2017 in National Assembly: 4. Bura Constituency; 5. Kaloleni South Constituency; 6. Magarini Constituency; 7. Matuga Constituency; 8. Chamgamwe Constituency; 9. Mathira Constituency; and 10. Njoro Constituency view