1 Mar 2016 in National Assembly:
advantage of. The land belonged to them, but now they are made poorer and their children cannot go to school. I will move some amendments at the Committee of the whole House stage. This is a good Bill. There was a lot of public participation and consultations in its development. I thank the Chairperson of the Committee, Hon. Mwiru, and his Committee for doing a good job. But there are small grey areas which I feel should be addressed so that the communities that lost land because of lack of prior knowledge are compensated. With those few remarks, I support ...
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24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I second the Motion.
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24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I second.
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17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this emotive but important Motion. The Committee did a good Report and we have findings. Although I do not come from a sugar growing region, I sympathise with the lives of the farmers, children who cannot go to school, suffering and poverty that sugar farming has brought to this country. As a citizen and people’s representative, I want to do everything possible to make sugar farming lucrative. This loss is not small by any means. The Kshs577 million was lost within a period of less than 15 years ...
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17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
The regulatory authority should be held responsible. I have seen that the Committee has also recommended that. They have flooded this country with imported sugar and made farmers not only in Mumias, but in sugarcane growing areas poor. Sugarcane growing is not attractive at all. I support exactly what the Committee has said. I do not have to repeat the recommendations because Hon. Washiali has brought them forward. I refuse and urge this House to refuse the singling out of Dr. Kidero for punishment because the recommendations of the larger Committee never did that. Hon. Speaker, now that there are ...
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16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I second this Motion. We arrived at this through consultations. This morning, the Committee on Selection passed these names. I urge the House to support this Motion. I beg to second. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second this Motion. Over the last three years, the Budget and Appropriations Committee, one of the largest Committees in this House, has done a commendable job. Budgeting is not a very easy thing because it is allocation of resources to very many deserving cases. It is very difficult to balance so that everybody gets satisfied.
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16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, it is good to renew these Members’ contracts in that Committee because they have institutional memory. They understand what was there before and what is happening. Considering that we have only 17 months to the general elections and their working life is like 12 months before Parliament is dissolved, I would urge the House to consider that and appeal to Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to continue doing a good job and make sure they allocate more money to the institutions that fight corruption like Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC), the Director of Public Prosecutions ...
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16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Last but not least, the Budget and Appropriations Committee under the able leadership of Hon. Mutava Musyimi, - the President who never was or was shy to become - should allocate money to county governments because that is where development is taking place.
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16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
With those few remarks, I support the Motion.
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