Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Report. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I also want to support the candidature of Chepkong’a. Having been with him here, I found him a very serious person and articulate on issues. As somebody mentioned, he knows our problems and therefore should be given a chance. As I speak, I am told even mileage has not been paid because we do not have very good representation at the PSC. All in all, I want to assure you that I did not know that Chepkong’a could lose a seat, having been very articulate and forceful in his presentation of issues here in Parliament. As mentioned by ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have seen the Report on afforestation. We should do much more than we are doing, as a country. I want to correct the Chief Whip who said that this country has only 2.9 per cent forest cover. The forest cover reduces every day. See what is happening in Mau Forest. I want to echo what Hon. Mberia has just said that we should have a full-fledged ministry of environment and natural resources, so that it can ably develop a blue print on what is required in the country. We can then follow through ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Recently, I went to China, which has 1.5 billion people. Africa has only 1.2 billion people. That is a fact. The streets of China are very wide with all kinds of buildings you can imagine of, but they have a forest cover. Everywhere is green, despite having storey buildings. Everywhere you go is green. I also had a chance to go to Romania. It is a developed country. It has a forest cover of 10.8 per cent when I was there. Compared with Kenya, which is not an industrialised country, we have a problem. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: As much as we want to debate and adopt this Report, the bottom line is that we should have a strategic plan for our country. What the Chair of the committee needs to do is to let the Cabinet Secretary come tomorrow and tell the committee what our plans for the next five years are. Each one of us has NG-CDF. I make sure that every fortnightly I distribute seedlings to all primary schools, colleges and even churches using the money for forestation. That is the only The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: way we will be able to move forward as a country to improve our forest cover. The carbon credit that my friend mentioned, which was a Tokyo initiative, pays money for having a forest in a given location; it does not matter where. That, again, should be encouraged. It should be appropriate because that is what has been said everywhere. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Another problem we have is in the Mau Forest. In the Mau Forest we had a cutline around the forest but some people have moved right inside the forest. Mount Kenya, which is near my constituency, is in a sorry state. If you go into the forest, you will see lorries of millers driving out with logs despite the recent directive that imposed a ban on logging of trees. That is not important because even those who are given the responsibility to protect the forest are actually bribed daily. So, we beat our own system. For us to move forward, ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I encourage each hon. Member to set aside 1 per cent of the NG-CDF money for planting trees. That is the only way we will increase our forest cover for posterity. Our children and grandchildren will ask us what we did. As someone mentioned, US is a very advanced country but they have forest cover you can refer to. In our country, there is nothing. We just talk and end up doing nothing. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: As I support this Report, I hope and pray that we have an annual target figure of trees to be planted. In the next 10 years, we should have at least 20 per cent forest cover. I look forward to having a blueprint from the Ministry to show us the way forward. With those remarks, I support. view
• 25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance. I have been waiting for long. First and foremost, I thank Hon. Mbui for bringing this timely Motion. At the time of completion of this Motion, we should talk about resolve. It should state that this House 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