Hon Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua

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• 15 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Anybody who tries to encroach on Government land should be ordered to leave as quickly as possible before the matter gets out of hand. With those very few remarks, I support. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rose here three weeks ago requesting for a Statement on the very many accidents happening in this country. It was to be given through the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. The Vice-Chair committed to provide the Statement within two weeks. We are now in the third week and I am wondering when the Statement will be brought because I do not want to wait for a long time owing to the fact that accidents are increasing every day. Despite the fact that police are carrying out investigations, maybe, they ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I am reminding them so that they can give me a fresh undertaking. I do not think they need more than three days to provide it because this is something the Government has been doing. The police have been investigating these matters and the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) is also alive to this issue. So, I think you should order them to provide the Statement by Tuesday next week. Thank you. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I just want to bring to the attention of the House that it is clear that we are not the persons to draft that Statement. The Statement should be drafted by the Ministry. Whether as a Committee we were busy or not, it does not stop the Ministry from functioning. The delay is affecting our oversight role and delaying our representation role. I do not think the Government can take two or more than two weeks to provide a Statement on something that they do on a daily basis. Whether we travel today as a ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. This is a very good Bill but it appears that institutions have failed. I know for a fact that when an institution fails, it is not the institution itself per se ; it is the people who are at the helm of that institution. There is need to streamline cattle farming in this country. As it has been said before, Kenya is a champion of innovations. It comes up with good institutions. When other countries come to Kenya to benchmark, they improve on our ideas ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: As we support this Bill, it is important that we also take audit of how the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya and the Coffee Board of Kenya are doing. That is because we focus most of our energies on creating new state corporations and new boards and we forget the old ones, which have similar challenges. The fact is that the livestock industry is not doing well, we believe that with the passing of this Bill and the establishment of a livestock marketing board, livestock farming will improve. Unless we go back and address the challenges that the Pyrethrum Board of ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: It is a fact that we need to approach these matters together so that we do not leave any part of this country behind. This is a very good Bill. It will put this country in good manufacturing practices. This sector has been affected by people who steal cattle from elsewhere and dominate the market by lowering the prices of livestock. It is easy for you to cheaply sell a cow you have stolen than people who have gone through the procedure of rearing cattle. They need to be protected by the marketing board that we seek to establish. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Even as I support this Bill, I would be happy to see that we do not attempt to reinvent the wheel in terms of the proposals on how to compose the board. The board will be a State corporation. The modalities of how it will be formed are found in the State Corporations Act. For purposes of improving this Bill, we will propose some amendments during the Committee of the whole House. Particularly, we envisage to mitigate against the very many challenges that such marketing bodies go through in this country, so that we are able to form a State ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Bill. 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. view