Cyprian Kubai Iringo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 781 to 790 of 1546.

• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. My able colleague and Member, Hon. Atandi, has talked about “this illegitimate Government.” I believe that the Government in place is legitimate as it was elected by the people of Kenya and the President was sworn in. The Government in place is a democratically elected one. By saying that it is illegitimate, he is not out of order? He must withdraw that statement and apologise. view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the Petition you have read. view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: It is a fact that there is so much public land which has been unscrupulously taken by some individuals which is meant for the public or landless people. This is very common in Meru, especially in Mt. Kenya Forest and Nyambene Forest. There is land which was hived out by the Government so that people who have no land could be settled on it, but individuals colluded with land officers and took those particular pieces of land. view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Last year, in the last Parliament, I brought a Petition here which talked about 50 pieces of land that had been hived from Meru National Park by individuals. In those pieces of land some individuals were settled and yet there had been people farming there who were now being evicted. The individuals who were settled there purported that the land belonged to the Meru National Park and so they could be settled there. The Departmental Committee on Lands, in the last Parliament, intervened and those pieces of land were returned. I concur with the petitioners that the matters they have ... view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on Sessional Paper No.3 of 2017 on the National Policy on Climate Finance. I rise to support it. I also applaud the Leader of the Majority Party for bringing it here for debate. I pray that once we are through with the debate, it will go back to its drafters in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. After that, we expect the National Treasury to get the funds to sustain the same. view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: It goes without saying that climatic change is a problem globally. It is not a Kenyan problem only. Being in the Third World with minimum resources, we are more vulnerable than other countries which have resources they can use to mitigate climatic changes faster than us. Unfortunately for us in the Third World, and Kenya in particular, we react to problems. We react when forests have been decimated and when rivers run dry. We are not proactive. If that trend continues, we are bound to experience harder times and especially if we do not set aside finances to cater for ... view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: My colleague, Hon. Mbarire, has talked about Mt. Kenya. We grew up seeing it from the Meru side. Every morning we saw the snow-capped peaks and we would be told that, that is where God lives. We believed it. Today, that snow is gone and it is all bare rock! view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Apart from the finances, we should also conserve our environment. We should conserve our forest cover. We should conserve the forests that we have. We should conserve the riparian areas that we have. We have gone out of our way to plant some eucalyptuses trees which suck gallons of water from the rivers. We plant them in the riverbeds and within two to three years, those streams dry up. Why are we eating up ourselves? Why are we presiding over the death of our environment? We can have as much funds as possible but each and every entity of the ... view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Government, including the National Treasury and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, should work in tandem. Where mitigation is required, finances are given. Once those finances have been provided, they should be utilised in the most prudent way without wastage so that at least we can conserve our environment. Tourism is a very important aspect of this country. It is a strong foreign exchange earner but most of the tourist locations rely on our environment. If we do not have proper environment for the wildlife, or we do not have water for wildlife, or we do not conserve those areas ... view