Enoch Kiio Wambua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Jun 2023 in Senate: With those remarks, I beg to move and ask Sen. Mwaruma to second. view
• 20 Jun 2023 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Clerk-at-the-Table is reminding me that I have one hour, but when I look at the clock, I have a few minutes. So, I will do my bit now then we will do the rest in the next sitting. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Mung Beans Bill, 2022, be now read a Second Time. Before I go to the content of the Bill, I want to draw the attention of the Senate to Part II of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya, which lists the functions and powers of county governments. ... view
• 20 Jun 2023 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view
• 20 Jun 2023 in Senate: I realized that the same beans that were being sold at Tseikuru at Kshs30 per kilogramme, somebody transports them to Nairobi, perhaps just cleans them up and puts them in an expensive package relatively, and sells them at a supermarket at Kshs240. Essentially, that was eight times what they bought them from the market. The same research findings show that, in fact, green grams across Africa are classified as women's crops. They are grown by women and the exploitation of women is so much that everyone seems to have resigned to the fate of the dictates of the middlemen. As ... view
• 20 Jun 2023 in Senate: For the avoidance of doubt, this Bill was published in the Third Senate and received overwhelming support from the Senate, but did not proceed beyond the National Assembly. In the contributions to this Bill by Members in the Third Senate, it was clear that green grams is a crop that can be grown in not less than 35 counties in this country. Currently, the crop is being grown extensively in Kitui, Makueni, Machakos, Tharaka Nithi, Meru, Embu, Taita-Taveta and sections of Kirinyaga County. The most appalling statistics about this crop is that if you look at all the schedules of ... view
• 20 Jun 2023 in Senate: This crop has been trivialized in that list and in all those schedules, you will find in there dhania and some other vegetables that we do not even consume in large quantities in this country listed as scheduled crops. However, mung beans is not listed. As I move this Bill, we are not asking for the listing of mung beans or green grams as a scheduled crop. We want a standalone Act to regulate the production and marketing of green grams as a crop in this country with great market potential both locally, in the region and across the world. ... view
• 20 Jun 2023 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view
• 20 Jun 2023 in Senate: Mung beans is listed as having the highest nutritional content compared to even the common beans we consume in this country. With a properly regulated mung beans industry, the import of this Bill is to ensure that both the national and county governments buy and package for use, mung beans in the school feeding programmes and for our military as well. That alone will enable us do a number of things. Firstly, it will stabilize the market prices for the beans. Secondly, it will create many employment opportunities in the process of value addition for packaging of these beans for ... view
• 15 Jun 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wonder why the Senate Majority Leader and the Deputy Speaker are encouraging Sen. Tabitha Mutinda to flout a direction that you have just given not more than one minute ago. We want to take your directions very seriously. We take great exception that the first Senators to break that direction is the Senate Majority Leader and the Deputy Speaker. view
• 15 Jun 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Our previous speakers--- view