Ekwee David Ethuro

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: THAT, in the amendment proposed to the proviso to section 12(1) of the Animal Diseases Act (Cap. 364) by deleting the words “one-half of its” appearing after the words “notifiable disease” and substituting therefor the word “the”. The simple reason is that, when the State kills the animals on the basis of notifiable diseases and these are diseases that should not be there in the first place, it is, basically, a failure by the Government to ensure surveillance and to ensure that these animals are free from disease. This mainly affects the pastoralists’ areas. So it is for the Government ... view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, I am just trying to protect the pastoralists’ livestock that notifable diseases are diseases that should be eradicated in the first place. Secondly, the Government is under obligation to ensure they do not even appear in any country. So, the liability on the Government should be so severe that they will take the earliest opportunity to ensure that all those animals are vaccinated so that in the unlikely event that they die from notifable diseases, then the Government must compensate full value because they will have to kill all of them. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I have a lot of respect for the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives. But these proposals were not brought by him. I am dealing with the Bill. I am not amending his proposals. So, my amendment stands. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: ( Question of the amendment proposed) view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: THAT, the Act be amended by- (a) inserting the following new amendments before the amendment to section 25- view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: My amendment is on page 3674 of the Order Paper and the Bill that the amendment is proposing to amend is on the Bill 1108 - Kenya Information and Communications Act. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Basically, we are taking it a bit further than what the Minister had proposed. That is because he captured the spirit. But we want to give it the real teeth in terms of the sentence. It should not be less than Kshs5 million and not more than Kshs10 million. We are reducing from life imprisonment. We have also defined the kind of acts that will constitute vandalism in the definition of the Act. view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, this is good for the crop owners but where livestock is concerned, sio sawa . view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: ( Question of the amendment proposed) view