Benjamin Jomo Washiali

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 771 to 780 of 1882.

• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Yes. It enhances appetite. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I know Hon. Millie knows what we are talking about. We are talking about community forests associations and the communities that live around forests. I will go back to the association again. So far we only have a record of roots that would help and improve the excitement and the appetite in men but for the ladies, I think I will need to go back to the association again and see whether the leaves of the same root can assist Hon. Millie. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Besides that, the communities also benefit from hunting in the forest. Some of them even gather honey and in this age of mercury being found in sugar, the communities that live around the forest have been gathering honey which they have been selling for sweetening tea. Many members of the public have chosen to use honey other than the sugar because of the mercury aspect. Therefore, in summary, I support this Report and request that all Members support it. We wrote this Report out of our own inquiry and volition. In the course of doing that, we found a few ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Committee’s own decision and nobody brought a petition to this House – they went out and found out that some of the officers who should help us conserve forests have again engaged their close relatives to put up facilities in the forest. Therefore, we have made this decision as a committee after having invited some of these players. I want to be on record that we invited the chairman three times without failure and because we were doing this out of our own volition. We just thought that we should not go ahead and invoke the rights that the committee ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, so that we can achieve what we want as a country because as we are talking now, the forest cover is below 10 per cent which is below the international standards that are allowable, we are looking forward to improve to 20 per cent of forest cover. For us to do that, we must get people who are sober and ready to support this Government. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I oppose this amendment. We are on record as the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources as having started this inquiry on our own volition. The Chair of the Kenya Forest Service should have been the one to raise issues of logging in this country. Therefore, already from the outset, there was an element of incompetence from the office of the chair. Conclusions are drawn from observations. Looking at the observations of the Committee… view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I did not interrupt Hon. Kamket, therefore, he should not interrupt me. With regard to Observation No.19, I want to refer… view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. You have done well to save my breath because I do not think that was a point of order. If our brother had time to look at the Report, Observation 19 clearly says that the suspension of the KFS senior managers was done illegally and unprocedurally by the Chairman of the KFS Board. Even with the purported suspension, the managers were not accorded an opportunity to be heard. That is what necessitated the recommendation. Under Recommendation No.22, we recommended that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) should investigate the immediate former KFS Board Chairperson ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: for possible conflict of interest. We are not saying that there is conflict of interest. We are saying he should be investigated for possible conflict of interest. You heard us say that as the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, we investigated on our own volition. The managers were then suspended and later on, the issue of the wife owning a hotel in the forest came up. I do not know the difference. I do not know what the relationship between the wife and the Chair is. In my case, whatever my wife owns is mine to an extent. ... view
• 31 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report. For record purposes, I am a Member of this Committee. Therefore, I want to support my Chairman, Hon. Kareke Mbiuki, and the entire membership of the Committee. Several speakers, including Members of this Committee have said that this Committee moved on its own accord. It is true that Members got information from the media and their individual experiences around the country. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Government because for the first time, immediately the committee highlighted the problem of logging around the country, the ... view