Franklin Mithika Linturi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Aug 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to be understood. I did not say that we would use the agrovets now. I have gone to different counties in the country, and the most recurring challenge is that farmers walk long distances to get fertilizer. This House should appreciate that the process of coming up with registration of farmers and the system to distribute fertilizer is not even one year old. We started this in January. Registering… view
• 2 Aug 2023 in National Assembly: The mapping of agrovets is for future use. This is a long-term plan to sort this matter once and for all. However, now, with the urgency involved, to ease the transport problem, we have worked out a plan with the governors. If we were to deal with NG-CDF infrastructure, we would require certain mechanisms because NG-CDF does not allow one to hire stores. With the devolved functions of agriculture, we work very closely with the county governments. The county governments also have funds to hire stores. They can easily hire temporary stores for two or three months as it is ... view
• 2 Aug 2023 in National Assembly: of distance; that is why we have brought in the governors and agreed with them on what we need to do. The time remaining for us to distribute the fertilizer is too short. We want fertilizer on the ground for the farmers before the end of next month. Hon. Speaker, several questions have been raised, but allow me to mention that farmers have done a good job. I will appear before the Committee on Delegated Legislation next week. We have brought in the request for approval of the Strategic Food Reserve Regulations to get enough money to buy maize from ... view
• 21 Jun 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I humbly submit to the authority of view
• 21 Jun 2023 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view
• 21 Jun 2023 in Senate: this Parliament, to answer the question asked by the Senator for Marsabit County in regard to our duty free imports into the country. In response to (a), it was through a Cabinet direction out of a decision that was made in a Cabinet meeting. I was authorised to issue permits to import various commodities into the country in order to bring down the cost of food in the country. To that effect, the imports I authorised are as follows: (1) White shelled maize – 1.4 million metric tons which should be on 90kgs bags. (2) White milled rice. I got ... view
• 21 Jun 2023 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view
• 21 Jun 2023 in Senate: Government investment, other than the waiver of duty, has been able to substantially bring down the cost of that important commodity. For now, there is nothing I can do for anyone who has not been able to bring in the food items. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I had legitimate expectations on my part as the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development charged with the responsibility of ensuring the country has food and is nutritionally secure. This was not a direct investment or procurement where I would have caused people to provide bid bonds or guarantees. Where we are not putting ... view
• 21 Jun 2023 in Senate: Probably, the only thing I would do is to look and understand why they were not able to bring in the items as they had applied. In future, we shall exercise greater caution when allowing them to bring in any imports because they are in breach of a contractual obligation to bring in food. After I had a discussion with most of the importers, the major challenge they had is financing. It is not cheap or easy to bring in 10,000 metric tons of rice or maize. We are talking of an investment of beyond Kshs1.4 billion. view
• 21 Jun 2023 in Senate: Banks have their own stringent rules for assessing different customers. In that case, most of these customers told they had a financing issue. This is because they did not have an idea of how much it would cost them. Secondly, the other challenge is because of problems that have been experienced all over the world by the Russia-Ukraine War. There is scarcity of grains in the world. It has not been easy to get the known Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) maize which I asked them to bring into the country. Those are the main challenges that we found ourselves in. ... view