Charity Ngilu

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• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to tell the hon. Member that there has been no failure of any of the crops. I also want to tell him that I have spoken to all the elders of the 11 villages that constitute Bura Scheme. I had actually assured the hon. Member that I was going to visit the place but I have changed my mind. I will not be visiting the place because they have their own local internal politics in the farming scheme. I do not want to bring any politics in the scheme that had collapsed for many years. ... view
• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: No, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am saying that I will not be visiting the place to talk about issues that are not right on the ground. As I said, there are other issues. I was going to visit the place because I wanted to see for myself. However, I got in touch with those 11 village elders. I do not know whether the hon. Members knows them. Do you know a person called Isa Shap? Do you know? view
• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you heard me right. I am so happy that you have got sharp ears. view
• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are issues we deal with them in a technical manner. Where a pump breaks down, we have got to repair it and get workers to work. We have also tried to bring cohesiveness within the farmers. Some of them do farming while others do not do farming. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a Question yesterday about 3,000 acres of land that the hon. Member wants divided among farmers. This is a very tricky matter because we need to involve the Provincial Administration. So, I would urge the hon. Member to ask a direct question instead of ... view
• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there will be no question of compensation because I will ensure farmers get enough supply of water. That is what we have continued to do. We have been facing a lot of challenges because these farmers have never been farmers before. We are training them to overcome some of these challenges. This is the truth which the hon. Member is not telling us. view
• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I withdraw the words “not telling us the truth.” He is not being entirely honest to us. view
• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there could be other reasons for crop failure, but, definitely, it will not be because of water. view
• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is no problem with water availability in the scheme. Therefore, I cannot commit the Government on something that is not on the ground. view
• 27 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Bura Irrigation Scheme actually collapsed many years back. We only revived it in 2009 using the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP). The scheme is on and we are going to increase the acreage. In fact, maybe what the hon. Members do not know is that we have just contracted another contractor who will do some 12,000 more acres to increase the number of acres under the Bura Irrigation Scheme. In fact, the houses were all destroyed. I do not know whether the hon. Member saw it when it was operational. He might have been too young to know ... view