Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to support the Committee’s Report because it did a thorough job and the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) will make this country develop. I want to say that this country recently discovered enormous deposits of coal and iron ore in Taita Taveta and lignite coal in Kitui, which is the best quality which burns without emitting smoke. view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Does that affect the leadership? view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Okay, hon. Deputy Speaker. It does not affect the Leader of the Majority--- view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I started by saying that we are very blessed in this country with natural resources. I am saying that we have discovered iron ore in Taita Taveta and very good quality coal in Kitui, Ukambani. The SGR will be used to export the raw materials and also manufactured goods. The SGR will spur economic growth and we should look at this in a bipartisan way; that this is a good project for this country. For any country to develop, it has to develop its infrastructure so that it can move its goods from one point to the ... view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: For those economic giants that have grown fast like Brazil, India, China and South Africa, they rely mostly on railway transport more than road because if you use the rail transport, you will transport more goods unlike the road transport where each lorry carries only one or two wagons. A train will carry so much and it will not require guards along the way. So, it will be cheaper to transport goods and services. view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will also have a market for our steel. Right now, we have iron ore but this country should move to the next step of manufacturing steel from the iron ore. We have a market for that steel with the railway. This railway will create jobs; young men will be trained as engineers. There will be so many contracts and so, if you do a cost benefit analysis, you will find that the railway will bring more important things in this country. Currently, the Numerical Machining Complex (NMC) The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report ... view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: has large metal foundry that is churning out steel. But it is operating at 30 per cent capacity. With the SGR line, we will have a market for that steel. We will sell it to NMC. view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: For any country to develop, today as we speak, it must have good infrastructure. The biggest economy in the world is the USA. If you read economic journals, you will find that 18 per cent of the global trade is controlled by USA, 9 per cent by China, 8 per cent by Japan, 5 per cent by Germany and 4 per cent by Britain and Italy. But today, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India and China) have moved and pulled the rag from the feet of developing countries. Why have they done it? It is because they have put a lot ... view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: This railway will be useful if the Government starts sourcing for funds so that the Kisumu route and the other route to Malaba is constructed. We may make Nairobi a kind of dry port; a container terminal where goods are transported easily. But when they reach Nairobi, you cannot transport them fast. So, we have to source for that money for that railway to be useful and for the economy to expand. When a good project comes from the Government, it is good to support it because it is good for this country. We should take a bipartisan stand. In ... view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: This is so that we can mourn the dead ones and unite this country. I want to say that it is good that this country starts training our people so that they take jobs in that railway. Let the contracts that are given be done by Kenyans. They should be given to Kenyans but not to foreigners. view