Catherine Wanjiku Waruguru

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman for the chance to contribute. I would like to thank Hon. Mutai and tell him that these people are permanent and pensionable members of staff. The fact that they were recruited to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: work under the Tea Directorate, it would mean that they are part of the bigger picture and reason why we are going to lapse and repeal the AFA Act 2014, for us to strengthen this. It only means that we would require to top up more members of staff with the workload that is ahead of us with regard to tea in the country. Thank you. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Chair, the sole purpose of the Committee establishing this clause was to protect our tea at the Mombasa auction, to be specific. There is a lot of tea flooding our markets from our neighboring countries in the East African Community. The sole purpose and intent was to see that our farmers benefit by selling their tea at a competitive price, as much as we are doing tea blending. Number one is to make sure we stabilise the prices of tea growers and the market that they fetch. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I will contribute for one minute. In the spirit of every Member who has contributed to this clause, Hon. Sabina and Kathuri, I agree that there are some corporates like KTDA which love litigation. If you check their expenditure, they consume more than 46 per cent in the courts. Instead of anticipating a judicial review, we should withdraw this clause and protect the interests of the farmers. There are places where they can go for arbitration in cases where there are problems which do not need KTDA to spend money on their behalf. At times, they ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: (Laikipia CWR, JP) Seconded. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: I second. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to take this opportunity to thank His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya for nominating one of our many women in this country to be the first Data Commissioner. I have not personally met Ms. Kassait but I want to personally congratulate her and the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation for a job well done and taking it one step at a time to see that majority of our women are not denied an opportunity to serve on the basis of where they come from, where they are married ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Therefore, we will bring to an end the culture of people who are being oppressed online and people who in a way would cause a lot of suspicion any time this country has an election. I have just heard the Member for Endebess talk about Donald Trump and the USA elections. I believe there is no good reason for any person to be worried because data belongs to us the same way. Nobody has an upper hand to misuse or abuse any data so that they make any candidate to win an election. Therefore, for purposes of people who have ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Those of us who have been worried that the Government is going to take advantage of their Huduma Namba to make anybody win or lose an election, we want to tell them to relax. We have given you a good lady, a commissioner, an equivalent of your wife, mother or daughters. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Allow me to congratulate her and ask our brothers to support this lady and let us have her name approved today. Thank you and congratulations to Mrs. Kassait. view