Eng. Ephraim Mwangi Maina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 May 2022 in Senate: for the land to revert to the owners and now they are living there happily. The Committee accomplished the mission of ensuring that those people have been settled on their land. view
• 12 May 2022 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the following activities will form part of the Committee’s business for the next quarter. I believe that very soon we will be adjourning view
• 12 May 2022 in Senate: . I do not know whether we shall accomplish this, but I believe we should be able to do a lot. We will do what we can handle and leave the rest to the next Senate. What is left is: (i) Publish Legislative Proposals it has received from various stakeholders; (ii) Conclude and prepare Reports on seven (7) Petitions pending before the Committee; (iii) Conclude all the Statements pending before the Committee and follow up on the implementation of recommendations on the Reports it has tabled in the House. You are aware that we have no Implementation Committee in this ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand here to share my memories of one of the greatest men in this world. Mzee Kibaki comes from Nyeri. He was the MP for Othaya for a long time. The people of Othaya--- view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: True, he started in Donholm and eventually the people of Nyeri fished him from here back to Nyeri. The people of Nyeri had total confidence in Mzee Kibaki. Even during the times of mlolongo, Mzee Kibaki was among very few people who had no challengers. Some of you may not remember what Mlolongo was. I knew Mzee Kibaki more than 40 years ago. What struck me is how he was able to relate to me as a young man. We were close until his final days. The people of Nyeri and the country at large know that Mzee Kibaki was ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: There are many things he did in this country, beginning with the major cash crops such as coffee, tea, sugarcane and the dairy industry. Others include cashew nuts factories at the coast. We also had the KMC for pastoralists. All those were done when he was the Minister for Finance. As the Minister for Finance and working under Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Mzee Kibaki foresaw the Africanisation of the economy and businesses in this country. That is how bodies like the Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC) were conceived and became the driving machinery for the African business people. Today, those ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: Kenyatta and Kenya was one of the shining countries in the world. When Mzee Kibaki became the President, he had a clear vision of what he wanted. He wanted to see improved livelihoods of ordinary Kenyans. He brought a milestone in the education sector. Have we learnt? There are many things we can talk of about the greatness of a man but the greatest thing to remember a man for is his respect for humanity. view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: Kibaki conceptualised Free Primary Education (FPE) in recognition that there were many children whose parents could not afford school fees. That was a great thing. I remember his Minister for Finance then, the late Prof. George Saitoti, telling me that it was through sheer effort and encouragement of Mzee Kibaki that that programme took off. Many people did not believe that it would take off but it did. He was a great man who thought about the future of ordinary children who cannot afford to go to school. He ensured we had FPE, which I must say it is not ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know how it pains many Kenyans. How many have been mentioned to have made billions from COVID-19 funds, including some in this House. Governors come to this House faced with impeachment but nothing happens. They all seem to walk out there. We then witness a country that is bleeding economically. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must truly commend Mzee Kibaki for being so clear minded. To him, the only way to save the country was to save it from these kind of people; scavengers who believe in scavenging on the public resources. That is what made Kenya ... view
• 26 Apr 2022 in Senate: Kibaki was somebody who appreciated any idea, old as it looked. That is one of the greatness of men. Nyeri County will remember Mzee Kibaki for certain things. One of them is that he managed to settle the people who had been chased out of Mt. Kenya Forest and were living under the Shamba System in Mt. Kenya and Aberdare forests. He settled them in Solio village, which is 15,000 acres. Those people had lived miserably on the footpaths of small rural roads for over 20 years. They had been removed through some dubious, miscellaneous accusations that they could be ... view