6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I rise on Standing Order No.95. Judging from the mood of the House, I request that the Mover be called upon to reply. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I rise on Standing Order No.95. Judging from the mood of the House, I request that the Mover be called upon to reply. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am a Member of the Labour and Social Welfare Committee which came up with this Bill. This is an idea whose time has come, where we would be having a national drought management fund. This would be a fund that would attract donations and finances from our Government so that we do not respond to such disasters like drought in some knee-jerk reactions. We have so many funds in this country that have been able to attract a lot of donations. They include: The National Development Fund for Persons with Disabilities, the National Fund ...
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am a Member of the Labour and Social Welfare Committee which came up with this Bill. This is an idea whose time has come, where we would be having a national drought management fund. This would be a fund that would attract donations and finances from our Government so that we do not respond to such disasters like drought in some knee-jerk reactions. We have so many funds in this country that have been able to attract a lot of donations. They include: The National Development Fund for Persons with Disabilities, the National Fund ...
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Since this fund is a model that will continue to make our people look like supplicants, always seeking a favour from the Government, it will still turn our nation and our people into beggars of the Government, we can go beyond these funds by asking ourselves where the rain started beating us. Where did we go wrong? The whole of ASAL area, which is 80 per cent of the landmass of Kenya, is affected by drought year in, year out. If we go to history, we will go to Sessional Paper 10 of 1965 which marginalises 80 per cent of ...
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Since this fund is a model that will continue to make our people look like supplicants, always seeking a favour from the Government, it will still turn our nation and our people into beggars of the Government, we can go beyond these funds by asking ourselves where the rain started beating us. Where did we go wrong? The whole of ASAL area, which is 80 per cent of the landmass of Kenya, is affected by drought year in, year out. If we go to history, we will go to Sessional Paper 10 of 1965 which marginalises 80 per cent of ...
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Eighty per cent of the landmass of Kenya is not opened up in terms of infrastructure and the potential of other resources is not being fully realised because of that infamous Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965. That is where the rain started beating us. If we equally shared the resources of this country from 1965, the 80 per cent of the landmass of this country would have been opened up in terms of infrastructure. We would have been having irrigation; we would be having underground resources contributing to our source of income hence their ability and the purchase power ...
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6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly:
Eighty per cent of the landmass of Kenya is not opened up in terms of infrastructure and the potential of other resources is not being fully realised because of that infamous Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965. That is where the rain started beating us. If we equally shared the resources of this country from 1965, the 80 per cent of the landmass of this country would have been opened up in terms of infrastructure. We would have been having irrigation; we would be having underground resources contributing to our source of income hence their ability and the purchase power ...
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