Benjamin Jomo Washiali

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 1882.

• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Quickly, I want to state that the headquarters only handle administrative matters. The Board does not only deal with production, but also the supply of sugar; thus covering the entire country. It will be a very big mistake for us to take the headquarters of Kenya Sugar Board to Kisumu. Let it remain in Nairobi so that it can also access the Government headquarters. Remember, the Ministry is here. For quicker consultations, we would not need to have the headquarters of Kenya Sugar Board in Kisumu. Let it remain in Nairobi where we already ... view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Mumias East, JP): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Once you were a Whip, you are always a Whip. So, when you call out a Whip, you need to qualify it with a name. view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Mumias East, JP): Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this was an issue that we deliberated under during winnowing. The sponsor of this Bill will go a long way to also support. There are two proposals on the First Schedule. There is one that we proposed and the one that aligned companies with counties. This is because whatever decisions we make here, given that this is a purely agricultural law, must be aligned to the counties so that we do not create problems for the county assemblies as they make decisions that affect sugar-cane production. That is why we need to be ... view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you. Before I second, I just wanted to correct my brother. I was the former Majority Whip. I rise to second. For your information, my constituency has the biggest factory in the Republic. We should be asking ourselves how it collapsed. We used to have our annual general meetings in Kisumu. view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to second. view
• 7 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the first petitioner, Mr. Isaac Njuguna, in as far as the scope of the theme of what we pray for is concerned. This is because in most cases, we have been praying for peace; but you will agree with me that we have more problems than peace. We have poverty; Kenyans are now very poor and we need to pray for Kenyans to have school fees. Kenyans need to pray against the escalating fuel prices. This country has freedom of worship. Praying is done daily and even today, our brother Isaac Njuguna prayed. In ... view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, my microphone was off. This is a House of records, and some are physical and others on the Hansard. Therefore, I want to support what the Chair has said because the Hansard will bear us witness in the processing of this Bill. view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I am really grateful for what I have heard from Members. How I wish they would have been there when we were doing the winnowing. Why this clause uses the word, “may” is because as a country, we have signed international agreements. The cabinet secretary must act in line with international agreements that we have signed. In the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA), there is the aspect of imposing tax and that would deny other countries doing fair trade. That is why we used the word, “may” as opposed to the word, ... view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. “Shall” is conditional. view
• 6 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Chairlady. When Mumias Sugar Company was being privatised, farmers were given an opportunity to buy five per cent. They did that for three years and they could not manage because they could not raise that amount of money. Let us help companies that want to be privatised to do that smoothly. This is because if farmers were to be asked to raise 49 per cent, it will take much time because many of those companies are worth billions of monies. It becomes a challenge for farmers to raise billions. Therefore, we need to be careful with ... view