Francis Chachu Ganya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to support this very important Motion. I commend my friends and colleagues who saw it fit to call for this very critical Motion. Drought is affecting over 13 counties in our country. Nine other counties are on high alert and over 3.4 million Kenyans are directly or indirectly affected. Over half a million children are not in school today or are not able to go to school due to lack of food, water and other reasons that affect the livelihood of their families. It is time we call for decent emergency ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Drought is not an emergency or disaster. It is cyclic in nature. It occurs gradually. It is slow on the onset and the indicators are very clear. There is lack of water, pasture and poor livestock conditions. When all these are observed and interventions are made in an effective manner, it can be managed. It is not a disaster or emergency. It only becomes an emergency or disaster when we fail to plan and intervene in a manner that will enable the livelihood of the pastoralists to be sustained. If we know that there is no water and pasture, we ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I moved a Bill in this House to set up the National Drought Management Authority. If we intervened and allocated enough resources to that Authority, we would not be experiencing the effects of drought. We even have a Fund that should have been established. If that was done during the budgeting process, we would not be crying about this crisis and looking around for funds now. 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
• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The Contingency Fund is an aspect of that law that we passed in this House. Even though the Authority was established, we do not have the Contingency Fund. That is why we are crying for donor aid. We are trying to mobilise Government budgets to intervene. This must stop. The Government must act very fast. view
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this debate. view
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: It is very sad, indeed. We have wasted the whole afternoon here. There is a rigorous process, under which business is conducted in this House. Even before business comes to the Floor of the House, it undergoes a rigorous process. view
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: In committees, we have technical experts who advise. We have seasoned clerks, fiscal analysts and lawyers. With all those resources available to us, and eventually the reports that come to the Floor of the House are approved by the Office of the Hon. Speaker, we wonder how we get a progress report from oversight committees. I served in the Public Accounts Committee in the 10th and 11th Parliaments and we used to call them post-mortem committees. What was audited by the Auditor-General eventually came to us and we made some determinations. Here we are talking about a progress report. This ... view
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Is it that as committees we no longer listen to the experts’ advice or to the technical experts available to us in Parliament and do our own things and eventually bring our reports here and waste quality time of the House? If we have all these experts available to us, and there is due 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
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: process to be followed, I wonder how this report ended up on the Floor of this House and we have wasted the whole afternoon since 2.30 p.m. discussing whether we should debate the reports or not. There is something wrong with us as Members of Parliament that we do not listen or do not take the advice given us by the experts available to us or maybe, we are not getting quality advice anymore. I cannot say that because they are not here to defend themselves. This is a concern for me because I am a seasoned Member of this ... view
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: There are many times we wanted to deal with very juicy issues and current issues in PAC, but were told not to because it was not within our mandate. We were told not to go there and told that our mandate as spelt out in the Standing Orders is very clear and well defined. There are times when it calls for joint committees and there are other times when the Public Investments Committee and the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing can have a joint sitting if the issues concern them both of them. We have seen that ... view