Charles Reubenson Kibiru

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: As I speak, farming is doing badly more than any other sector. If you go to Kirinyaga County, every farmer who farms both coffee and tea is crying because they have been neglected. An average farmer gets less Kshs8,000 per month after working for a long period. Farmers are earning less than some of the poorly paid workers in this country. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, a lot has been said about KTDA, the value chain and a number of things that need to be addressed. KTDA needs to put its house in order. We vividly remember that they made a wrong investment in the collapsed Imperial Bank and Chase Bank to a tune of close to Kshs4.9 billion. To date, only Kshs1.7 billion has been recovered. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we make recommendations, we need to state that it is the responsibility of KTDA to ensure that it gets back and refunds farmers the money that it wrongly invested. They should deal ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: and is left with a balance loan of Kshs30, 000. This becomes a cycle. I think we need policies to guide on the borrowing by the farmers. There was a proposal for guaranteed minimum returns (GMR). I think the Government needs to take up an insurance that will help farmers to take care of fluctuation of prices. Therefore, as we support this report, just as we supported the Tea Bill and other Bills related to farming, as leaders, we need to come up with a paradigm shift when it comes to issues of farming. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Let us agree that we meet the aggregators. The farmer should not be left on the out to look for markets, but at the same time, we need transparency in the way we do our things. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a lot has been said about KTDA and the factories. The Committee in charge of agriculture needs to look at the agreements that the factories get into with the agency. It looks like it is lopsided, because you will find that although a factory is autonomous and is registered as a limited company, it has no autonomy in making its ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, pursuant to Standing Order 141(1), I beg to move that the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood) Bill (Senate Bills No. 10 of 2019) be now read a Second Time. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: This Bill was previously referred to as the ‘Hawkers Bill’ that had been proposed by Gov. Mwangi wa Iria, a man who had defied the Senate at one point in time. However, given the importance of the Bill, my Committee has been working on it. It has culminated in us getting the change of title to read ‘Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood) Bill (Senate Bills No. 10 of 2019).’ view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the objectives of this Bill are clear. They are as follows- (i) to recognise the right of the informal traders; (ii) regulate informal trading; (iii)designate the areas where they will operate from; (iv) have effective organization on the areas that they will be operating on; and, (v) have public participation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, at the advent of Independence in this country, the founding fathers of this nation, some great Kenyans including the former President Mwai Kibaki, the late Tom Mboya, the late Dr. Kiano and others, sat down and in their brilliance and The electronic version of ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: intellectual capacities tried to see how we could do what one would call the African commerce. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: That was the time when we had just gotten Independence and most of us, Africans, did not have the international exposure to do business. That is the time when Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965 was produced. It is one of the best sessional papers that have ever been produced in this country. I believe even the architects of Vision 2030 did borrow a lot from that Sessional Paper. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we all realize and recognize how African commerce was developed. We had institutions that would guide us in the ways of doing business. Over a period--- view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. For avoidance of doubt, I will restrict myself specifically to issues of African commerce. We need not engage ourselves in that direction. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just wanted to lay that background, so that we can understand that sometimes we have very good policies. Sometimes we set very good standards of going about our business. It was not until the infamous Structural Adjustment Programmes in the 1990s, when some of these policies, especially trade issues, were disrupted. Why the background? This country has undergone several transformations, from a protected or open market to a liberalised ... view