Florence Mwikali Mutua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I put in my card a while back. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. I have a few contributions to make to Votes 1162, 1165, 1164, 1167 and 1168. view
• 13 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I really want to speak about the Vote for the State Department for Agricultural Research even if it has passed. view
• 13 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Okay then. Let me speak about co-operatives only, although I put my card in a long time ago. I had a lot of contributions to make and my card did not catch your eye. I support the Vote-Head for co-operatives because the world right now revolves around co-operatives. I am a very strong supporter of co-operatives. Even in the counties, we work very closely with co-operatives to ensure that the youth, women and people living with disabilities are members of co-operatives. We even channel the money that we get as affirmative action through co-operatives. We are very happy that the ... view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Being a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, I first want to congratulate the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the good job it has done. I want to start with the issue of the Kenya Meat Commission. I want to commend the Committee for allocating Kshs85 million to the KMC for the settlement of pending bills owed to farmers. As a country, we have been talking about food security as one of the pillars. We cannot talk about food security without talking about livestock. When people talk about food security, they ... view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: country, we need to put in place stop-gap measures for all those avenues that are being used for corruption and ensure that all the key departments in this country are fully funded. Now it seems like we are running away from allocating money to the departments. We have given up on the fight. The cases should be fast-tracked and the people who have taken our money should be taken to jail. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have very many stalled Government projects in this country. There are many incomplete NG-CDF projects. We have very many dispensaries that are just not ... view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: We have also seen the terrible conditions on our roads. The flooding has done more damage. We have seen people in Laikipia County throwing away tomatoes and food produce because they cannot take it to the market. We want to see the money that will be allocated to construct roads. We have roads that have been given to contractors in Busia County but construction has not started, yet the contracts have been signed. So, we want the people who get these contracts to do the work. Most of the blame goes to the governors and yet some of these national ... view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: As a country, we cannot continue to entertain mud-walled schools. We have no desks and toilets even in the areas where we have schools that are built permanently. We need these facilities to be provided. We cannot be allocating money all the time and then Members of Parliament are called for Harambees every other day to buy desks. That is not the role of a Member of Parliament. There are funds that have been allocated for these specific jobs. So, let the person who is doing that job buy desks and construct toilets for our girls in the schools. view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I just want to finish by stating that as women representatives, we have very many roles we do in this country. It is unfortunate that our work has not been appreciated yet. We have not yet been appreciated as Members of Parliament. We did a lot of things with the little funding we got last time. We have economically empowered women and youths. We are doing a lot of work for gender- based violence and pregnant girls. If people feel that we are not supposed to get adequate funding that can do these jobs, then our ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Motion. I stand to support it. A police officer’s first order of business is to serve and protect. Police officers play a very central role in the law enforcement system. They monitor criminal activity, respond to emergency calls when necessary, investigate crimes and even testify in court as and when necessary. That said, police officers are human beings and we have seen the structures that they live in. I cannot even call them houses because they are just structures. Police officers need the basics. ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: We, as a House, need to be serious when it comes to the issue of discussing Motions or Bills. Once they are discussed, can we follow them and ensure that they are implemented? We should stop being a House of kusema na kusema . We need to be a House of kusema na kutenda. Can we ensure that we follow up those issues so that the Motion on police officers and any other Motion that is tabled in this House is implemented? Lastly, the police officers in any country – I am speaking of Kenya here – need to be ... view