Hon Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: With all due respect to the leadership of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, in my very honest opinion, they should consider re-doing this Report. Our interest is not on whether they have enough money or not, but why coffee farmers in this country seem to be on their own in fighting coffee diseases. That is what informed Hon. Eseli Simiyu to visit the CRI to get this information. When he arrived there, he was shocked. Their coffee showed signs of diseases. view
• 27 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my concern is finding out whether the CRI has competent officers to carry out coffee research. Without competent staff and equipped laboratories, they cannot carry out meaningful research that would improve and assist coffee farmers in this country. Issues of financial challenges are with every institution in this country. A Government body cannot just sleep on the job. There are farmers who are on their own, struggling to find knowledge from elsewhere on what is affecting coffee production. They are not getting any tangible research reports from CRI which they can use to improve coffee production. ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am also a coffee farmer and so are most of my constituents. I will sit with the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock to see whether there is something that can be done to salvage the coffee sector in this country. We know very well that we are done with the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). If there is no budgetary allocation, for whatever reasons that the Chair has alluded to, then it means coffee farmers will continue to suffer until the next financial year. I want to sit down with ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: with the view of getting returns by way of reports. Farmers need more information on what are the suitable varieties of seed in terms of climatic conditions and disease resistance. With these few remarks, I support this Report. I will, however, have to sit with him and see what we can do in the short-term as we await this long process of budgetary allocation. view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support this important Bill. This is a Bill whose time has come. The young people of this country form a good percentage of the total population of this Republic. We have had a lot of efforts by the Government and other institutions towards improving the lives of young people. However, all those efforts have been an exercise in futility because of what we are trying to cure today through this Bill. There is need to audit, so far, the implemented interventions to improve the lives of the young people ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we must be cognisant of the fact that if the National Youth Council is not achieving the goal of improving the lives of youths in this country, then we can as well say that it is an equivalent of a misguided missile on a wrong target. The only medicine is to ensure that this Bill goes through. I know at a later stage we will be introducing further amendments so that the National Youth Council is not just an entity that is used by the older generation to siphon money and continue to impoverish the young ... view
• 26 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: economic well-being of all citizens in a county within a short time, but when you begin to sort out problems that affect the young people, the rest of the issues will fall in place. Previously, I had a problem with seeing people who are in charge of the youth fund being fellows who are 70 years and 80 years whom we can squarely blame for the current problems that are affecting the young people. If they were in a position to sort out problems to do with youths of this country and they failed, then we will be courting disaster ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise to ask the following Questions directed to the CS for Environment and Forestry: (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain why the deployment of one Joseph Wanyonyi, Personal Number 1980036617, who was moved from the Kenya Forest Service vide a letter reference number EST/1980036617/12, dated 23rd July 2014 to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has not been effected? (ii) Could the Cabinet Secretary state when the deployment of the said officer will be effected while ensuring that the inordinate delay in deployment does not prejudice the officer’s pension benefit. I thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 18 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I want to state clearly that I support this Motion which is very good. view
• 18 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Kenya is not the first country in the world to be invaded by locusts. Definitely, there are other countries that were first invaded by them. The Government has spent colossal amount of money on benchmarking trips that are irrelevant. Even at times, we go on benchmarking to learn how to cook. However, we cannot find it very necessary that the Government takes a trip to countries where the locusts are said to have migrated from, so that we can know how they dealt with them. It is disheartening when a Cabinet Secretary says that the locusts are now yellow and ... view