28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
administration is keen on. I am currently running a breed improvement programme within the ASALs to assist farmers to change their breeds. You are aware that the leather industry is a key value chain that the Kenya Kwanza Administration is working on, which is meant to improve the livelihoods of livestock keepers. Last week, I was in Isiolo, where I went to check on the progress of the construction of Isiolo Abattoir. We want to make Isiolo a hub supplying meat to the region. That abattoir is meant to serve six counties including Isiolo, Marsabit and Samburu. We want to ...
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28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you indulge me, probably the Senator asked a question that was asked, but it has not found its way on my desk. I do not mind him sharing with me, then I go and prepare and come back with an answer.
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28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me say that where I am able to, I have a duty to give the Senate the true position of issues that this House requires from me. It is not that I have received---
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28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
( Sen. Maanzo entered the Chamber without bowing to the Chair)
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28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me admit that it is true that the gentleman by the name Samuel Onyango Ong’ow was nominated as a member to represent the sugar sector in the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) Board. The process of getting to the AFA Board is a long one. I have never seen any other participatory and consultative process like that. We advertise, people apply, they are vetted, interviewed and subsequently names are forwarded to me for appointment. To cut the story short, the appointment of Samuel Ong’ow was a subject matter of Judicial Review No.045 of 2023. In ...
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28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
to have the Gazette Notice for the other week carry the name of Samuel Ong’ow as a Board Member to represent the Kisumu Sugarbelt Co-operative Union in the AFA Board. I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.
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28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
Kama sheria za Bunge hazijabadilika, nafikiria swali lingeulizwa kwa Kiswahili lingejibiwa kwa Kiswahili. Kwa hivyo, nitajaribu kujibu hilo swali kwa lugha ya Kiswahili. Nakubaliana na Sen. Munyi Mundigi ya kwamba kilimo ni idara ambayo inaweza kubadilisha na kumaliza umaskini katika taifa letu. Nashukuru wakulima wa Kenya, haswa wale wa Mbeere na wa Kaunti ya Embu, kwa kusikia mwito wetu wa kuwaomba warudi kwa mashamba na kulima ili tuweze kumaliza janga la njaa katika taifa letu. Kwa sababu hiyo, tunajivunia wakati huu kuwa tumezalisha chakula cha kutosha tukazidi yale makisio ya miaka mingi ama ile tulikuwa tumewekelea kwa kuzalisha chakula kwa ...
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28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
Huu ni mpango ambao tutatumia Kshs6 bilioni na Kshs800 milioni. Najaribu kuangazia na kuwasaidia wakulima kuweza kufanya value addition kwa zile
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28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
wanazotaka kuangazia. Hii ni kwa sababu design ya hiyo mipango ni kuweza kuafikia mambo kama hayo. Sen. Munyi Mundigi, pesa ziko. Jambo la maana ni kukaa chini na Gavana na
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28 Feb 2024 in Senate:
wenu. Hii ni kwa sababu tunatekeleza mipango hii tukishirikiana na watu wa kaunti, waangazie value chain yetu ni ya maembe au machungwa, tuweze kupeleka zile pesa tulizonazo hapo. Jana, nimeweka matangazo kwa gazeti kutafuta washauri wale wataweza kutupatia ripoti vile tutaweza kuendelea na mpangilio huu. Kufikia Tarehe mosi Julai, huu mpango utakuwa unaendelea. Kwa vile ninyi ni viongozi wa Bunge, ninyi ndio mnaongoza kaunti. Tutatengeza mpango huu katika kaunti zote za Kenya. Hii ni kwa sababu tulisema mwito wetu ni
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