Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Motion and just recollect that if, today, we are constructing the Thika Superhighway, then today must be the reason when we should decide to construct an infrastructure that will give us an information superhighway. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenya is, indeed, a giant in matters of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and, therefore, we would not have to make any extra effort to create the prerequisite manpower that we would need to support this particular initiative because hon. Members will recall that, today, the mobile phone connectivity or ... view
• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg for your indulgence that before I move this Motion, this is the first Motion I am moving since the just ended by-election in Kitutu Masaba. Allow me to use this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Walter Nyambati and more importantly to congratulate the voters. This is especially the voters of Odiado Ward in Funyula who overwhelmingly voted for New FORD(K), the voters of Matayo’s who overwhelmingly voted for New FORD(K) and the voters of Matulo Ward in Webuye who overwhelmingly voted for New FORD(K). We thank them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg ... view
• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that tea farming is the leading foreign exchange earner in Kenya and that Kenya’s tea is the most popular the world over for its consistent high quality and considering that most tea factories owe colossal amounts of money in terms of loans to various financial institutions in the country, concerned that these loans impact more heavily on the small scale tea farmers who contribute highly towards tea export, concerned further that, if these loans are not either waived or written off tea production may be compromised ... view
• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Indeed, we have consulted with hon. Kabogo. Just like me, hon. Kabogo fights for the poor farmers in his constituency and in Kenya on coffee. So, we are in agreement that I can read his Motion. view
• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Yes, but is that procedural, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker? view
• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wish to congratulate the farmers of Kenya for sustaining our economy. I wish to congratulate the farmers of Kenya for being the ones that enabled me to get a salary at the end of the month. Because of that, I want to appeal to my colleagues that this little commitment that we will give them, for the next two hours, we give it to them and allow our farmers to enjoy the fruits of their sweat. Since the final underwriter of laws in this country is the President, I want to appeal ... view
• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: We also want to sustain the production of high quality tea which, by the way, is used in the whole world for blending because Kenyan tea is the best quality in the whole world. Through this Motion, we seek to maintain and further Kenyan’s pridal place as the producer of large quantities of tea. We further, in this Motion, seek to expand our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and, indeed, spur the entire economy. We further seek, through this Motion to contribute to the strengthening of the battered Kenyan currency. If we increase the amount of tea we are selling in ... view
• 30 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is room for us to do more research at our universities and agricultural research institutes to ensure that the quality of tea which is planted in Kenya is improved. Thirdly, we can upgrade and modernize the production process in all our factories, so that production is cost-efficient. How do you make production cost- efficient? There are huge avenues, namely, making fertilizer cheap. Short term basis of making fertilizers cheap is to subsidize, the way we do for cereals. However, we could go further because there is plenty of room. We could build a local fertilizer ... view