Charles Reubenson Kibiru

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Sep 2019 in Senate: Having said that, a few issues need to be highlighted as we conclude this Motion. For example, there is need to have a policy to ensure that it is mandatory for everybody who gets a contract, whether to put marram on a road in a rural area, tarmac a highway, or build classrooms in schools and other Government institutions, to plant trees. Infrastructure is not necessarily roads. When a Government institution or schools are built or a borehole is dug, as long as the contract is given by the national or county governments, we should make it mandatory that a ... view
• 12 Sep 2019 in Senate: With those remarks, Madam Temporary Speaker, I request Senators to support the Motion. I thank you. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Now that you have ruled, I would like to know whether it will be safe for us to go to Kitui. We need to be sure that we will be safe because if a hospital was closed and we will be going there next week, we need to be assured of our security. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We are the remnants of Mau view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: fighters. Therefore, when the hon. Senator says that we were bullied and ran away, and I was part of that mediation team, I feel belittled. An hon. Senator cannot run away; we were persuaded to leave the battle. We did not run away, but we were persuaded. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we can express ourselves by voting or by not voting. Instead of debating here forever, let us take a vote so that the people of Kirinyaga can see whether I am voting for them to get money, or whether somebody from another county is voting for them not to get money. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: Thank you Madam Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, AWARE of the numerous benefits that trees play in environmental conservation, combating climate change, air and water purification, carbon sequestration, flood control, prevention of soil erosion, human and wildlife sustenance, urban planning, as well as other social and economic benefits; NOTING THAT Kenya has and continues to implement various infrastructure projects across the country, among them railways, roads and highways, airports, sea and inland ports, pipelines, dams, among others; CONCERNED by the extent of environmental degradation that takes place when undertaking such infrastructure projects, entailing clearance of trees, ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: AWARE THAT the National Government has launched an ambitious plan to plant 1.8 billion trees by the year 2022, with a view to enhancing the country’s tree cover from 6.2 per cent to the globally accepted minimum of 10 per cent, and that this entails, among others, planting at least 1 million trees annually in each of the 47 counties; UNDERSCORING the need to balance between development and sustainable environmental management, for the benefit of present and future generations, as enshrined in the preamble to the Constitution of Kenya; NOTING that planting of tree buffers alongside and around major infrastructure ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: number of trees they would have cut down. If we have such conditions on every project, we will achieve our 10 per cent forest cover faster than it has been planned. It is said that forestry products contribute to about Kshs8 billion of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of this country. That is an area that employs quite a number of people in terms of the wood products that we produce in this country. If only we could achieve the kind of forest cover that we are talking about by planting trees, be it exotic or indigenous, issues of some ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in Senate: In a spectrum of a number of issues that we would want to address in this country, starting from enhancing production and issues of health now that we are implementing a pilot programme of the universal healthcare. We need to do preventive care, where we are able to encourage people to plant trees. We should encourage people to plant medicinal, fruit trees and indigenous trees. We will get a lot of benefits from the trees. view