Francis Chachu Ganya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 751 to 760 of 1798.

• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I agree with the Member for Rarieda. NEMA needs to be a body similar to what we have in the United States (US) or Canada as an environmental protection agency. It should have the teeth and necessary resources to perform its environmental functions. As a Committee, we are working so hard to ensure that NEMA is well resourced and it gets the necessary capacity that it requires. In most of the laws we are passing we are trying to do away with the ambiguities that have been there before. This Climate Change Bill will ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to commend my colleague, hon. Doctor Ottichilo for moving this Bill. This was a Private Members Bill and then it was brought to our Committee. I know it has been a long journey for him. In the Tenth Parliament this Bill was passed, but it was not assented to by the President for the reason that there was very little consultation that was done. Again, in the Eleventh Parliament, he has pushed it this far. I hope this time, given the consultations that the Committee has done, our President will assent to ... view
• 3 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Report. From the outset, I really want to commend hon. Members of the PAC of the Eleventh Parliament for working so hard to ensure our audits are now timely. Doing three accounts from three financial years within a span of two years is not a small achievement. I served in this Committee in the Tenth Parliament for the first Session of the Eleventh Parliament for six years. I know how hard it is to work overnight to ensure that we have very timely audited accounts. ... view
• 3 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: recommendations and they are not honoured by the Chief Accounting Officers in the Ministries. If people have been surcharged, they should honour that. If they are to refund funds to the Treasury, they must do so in a timely manner. If there is need for further investigation to cases of corruption that have been unearthed, it must be done on timely manner. It must be done within a certain well established timeframe and all disciplinary measures that have been recommended must be implemented to the fullest. There is a lot of secrecy always when it comes to the Office of ... view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I have a problem with “c” in terms of order of precedence. Those are the Speakers of Parliament of both Houses. I really want to urge the Mover of this Motion to look critically at the Constitution because even when you we have joint sittings of the two Houses here – the Senate and the National Assembly - always the Speaker of the National Assembly is the one who presides over the business of this House. That clearly shows that the Speaker of the National Assembly is ranked higher than the Speaker of the ... view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I really want to appreciate the good work of hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo of having brought this very important Motion to the Floor. As an environmentalist, I oppose in totality any development of nuclear energy in this country. I even have a problem with the Motion as amended. I do not think that we should spend a coin or a minute on even contemplating about developing nuclear power in this nation. view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: It is a very risky and expensive investment. We have no reason whatsoever, as a country, to expose Kenyans to the threat of nuclear energy radiation. The trend the world over, even with those who have invested in nuclear energy like the United States of America (USA), India and Germany, is to now invest in green energy or what we call soft energy or renewable energy. This is because of the threats and the cost involved. In the past when nuclear energy was developed, the knowledge or the technologies used in developing renewable energy like solar, wind, geothermal, biogas and ... view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: do not even have the capacity like others to manage these terrorists. That is why we have been victims many times in this country. Building a nuclear power plant basically means that we are giving terrorists opportunities to destroy humanity and our country. Disposing of the hazardous wastes that emanate from nuclear power plants is a major problem. Even countries like the USA, Germany and India who have developed nuclear power plants have not, up to today, managed to dispose of those hazardous wastes. It is a problem in our environment and one that we have lived with for many ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. From the outset, I want to thank hon. Okoth, a great parliamentarian, which whom I share the same alma mater, for having brought this issue of national importance to this Parliament. Education is a right and our children deserve that right. I thank the Government for appointing the Dr. Kilemi Mwiria’s taskforce to look at the issue of education. The recommendations in that report are very good and very practical. I call upon the Government to implement that report in totality, especially ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: This Government is able to allocate money for digital toys called laptops. That money could be invested into free secondary education instead of those toys that nobody knows where they are. Students from marginal counties are suffering. The drought is biting and very few are going to secondary school this year, especially the ones joining Form One. Many students are dropping out due to lack of school fees and difficult conditions brought about by drought. I hope the Government will do something about this. I call upon the Budget and Appropriations Committee to allocate enough money for education, particularly to ... view