Eng. Ephraim Mwangi Maina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: entrepreneurship starting with whatever is available in Turkana and elsewhere will be periodically involved in the extraction and maybe the whole service delivery of the oil. In this regard, we took an example of a country such as Nigeria which has done fairly well. They started without anybody who knew about oil--- view
• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for protecting me. Once in a while, this protection is needed. view
• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: Thank you, very much. Do not count that time. We took into account that we will be safeguarding the local people. We have put in the Bill a methodology of ensuring that people will be enticed and come out in Kenya as entities standing in their own right as experts in the oil field. view
• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: In all that we were looking at, as a people of Kenya; as much as we wanted benefits for our people, we were in recognition of one thing that I must tell this House: One can stand here and say he is speaking on behalf of the people of Kenya on Turkana. However, this business is not a child‟s game but entails billions of shillings. We have seen the person extracting oil in Turkana coming to a stop. That is a sad thing because people will come here - and they are not that many in the world - to ... view
• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in doing all this, we were guided by the principle of the interest of the people of Kenya. We would wish that the children of Turkana have the best of education out of the fund from this oil and that Turkana becomes a granary for Kenya and an agricultural stronghold, the way we have seen the people in the Arab Emirates investing their money in the right ways. This is what this Bill entails. view
• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: I therefore, ask this House that we come together---. view
• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: Can I have one minute? view
• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in my language, one minute can mean five but let me use three minutes---. view
• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 25 Sep 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us all be guided not by the divisive political notions that we have, by looking at this Bill in the spirit of the “Handshake” - the miraculous and religious thing that has occurred and given Kenya the road to prosperity. view