Dr. Christopher Andrew Langat

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• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: white settlements and continued to encourage the people to live in the Mau Forest. They even used some ways to ensure that those people could acquire title deeds in Mau Forest so that they could forget the land that had taken away from them. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: However, Madam Temporary Speaker, what we know as fact is that 23 blocks in Mau Forest are actually land gazetted as Government land. Otherwise, the rest of the land is trust land for the former Narok County Council. The owners of that land sold it to some people, and those people have got title deeds. Actually, if we continue the misconception, working on ignorance and blaming some communities, this problem will never be solved. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: While I was teaching at the university, I used to say that the best way of solving a problem is by identifying the actual cause of a problem. What is the actual problem? Therefore, it is very important that as we are handling this important Motion, we should not engage politics of Mau Forest and politics involving other places as a way of getting a ticket to demonise some rights of some leaders of some regions in fighting for the rights of their people. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: Another issue that I would like to encourage Sen. Kasanga to add on this Motion is the issue of supporting forest research foundation. There are some very important institutions that have been ignored completely in this country. Yesterday, I talked about how much the Government has ignored the Tea Research Foundation to the point that farmers have continued, for a long time, dwelling and planting traditional crops that no longer support their economic value at this point of time. Forest research foundations or institutions should be encouraged so that we get the right seedlings for the right places. For example, ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: Sen. M. Kajwang’ was around. There is a time when the former President Moi asked people to research so as to establish some seedlings to be planted. To date, they have covered most of Baringo region which was totally a desert. We encourage people such as Sen. M. Kajwang’ to support people in Homa Bay County to grow many trees. In fact, Homa Bay County is more of a desert than any other county. Whenever he speaks about tree planting, we wonder what types of trees he has encouraged people in Homa Bay County to plant compared to some areas ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this important Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on tea. We must take stern action to save this particular industry knowing very well that other related sectors have gone through very dangerous situations and cannot be easily brought back to the same position. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: We understand that previous leadership in this country watched as the coffee industry went to the dogs. The maize industry is also suffering and the Ministry of Agriculture is just watching as the farmers suffer. We have also seen other sectors like sugar cane suffer. The farmers have been neglected and the Ministry of Agriculture has never taken any reasonable steps to support this sector. Now, the tea sector is going the same way. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: I come from a tea-growing sector. Many may have watched on television and other media that in Bomet, people have started uprooting this important crop. It is indeed very sad, knowing very well that this crop is our economic builder number one. It is a very important crop that earns this country foreign exchange. In addition, the tea sector employs so many people. It is one of the largest employers of the youth and old people in Kericho, Bomet and other places. Therefore, it is a very important sector, and we must do something as the leadership of this country. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: I am a Member of this Committee, and we went to about seven counties. We started from Kisii and went to Nyamira, Kericho, Embu, Murang’a and Bomet and listened to the lamentations and suffering of the farmers. They have been persevering and this particular sector has been affected by so many issues. There is the issue of over- taxation, as Sen. Khaniri said. This produce is overtaxed. In fact, it is benefiting the auctioneers in Mombasa, who cannot even tell how this crop looks like. This sector needs intervention. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the worst part of it is when we visited the Tea Research Institute in Kericho. The Government has completely failed to fund this sector, yet tea research is very important in bringing new knowledge and information on how to improve this sector in this country. The Government no longer funds this institution. It only gives them sustenance in terms of salaries and nothing else. We visited some of their labs and many of them are no longer working, yet this used to be the East African Tea Research Foundation, which was the envy of everybody in ... view