George Gitonga Murugara

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• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: that is not free political money but is actually money meant to improve their well-being and welfare and it is repayable. Once that is accepted by the society, our work will be easy. Our work will be to disburse money when it is available, collect it when it is due. That revolving fund will carry on and on for the betterment of the citizens of Kenya. These were very wise ideas in spite of the fact that they were born out of some political expediency in 2013. These are brilliant ideas and we should incorporate men into these funds and ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: I will bring it tomorrow afternoon. view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, this House notes the annual Reports on the State of the Judiciary for the financial years 2016/2017 and 2017/2018, submitted to the House pursuant to the provisions of Article 254(1) of the Constitution, and adopts the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs as contained in the Reports of the Committee, laid on the table of the House on Thursday 9th May 2019. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: , (Tharaka, DP): Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill from the Senate which recognises that agriculture is the backbone of the economy of Kenya and most importantly that attention must be paid to the tea sector in the country. I do not come from a tea growing area, but all my neighbours grow tea. Therefore, I feel that I am obliged to speak for them because tea is the number one foreign exchange earner for this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is also good to begin by saying that we have not treated agriculture ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Subsequently, the Ministry enacted another Act creating an authority that amalgamated and collapsed other crops-related authorities into one. That authority was the AFA. The Act was enacted in 2013 and the death knell was pinned on sugar-cane and tea. We had a problem with coconut, pyrethrum, cotton, horticulture, sisal and coffee. Unfortunately, I do not see any cereals here. My constituency is well known for being the food basket of the country, not only producing maize and beans, but also millet, sorghum, cow peas, pigeon peas, green grams and other crops. While we look at the Tea Bill today, it ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: The Tea Board of Kenya which is established under Clause 3 is good enough although I would urge that it acts more independently than we are trying to provide here. Let us have some of the qualified members of this board elected instead of being appointed. The qualifications must be defined in the Act, so that those who are qualified can sit in the board and dispense business relating to tea. There are amendments which we have been told about and I believe we need to amend many of these clauses. These include the clause dealing with disputes which says ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: clothes instead of wearing good clothes made from cotton. view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Sisal is another dead crop. If this trend continues, coffee will soon follow suit and eventually tea may end up there. At the end of the day, cereals may also find themselves in that dictionary and the country would be faced with acute food shortage. view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: With those remarks, this is a Bill that we must work to make it as good as we can. It is a Bill that should be followed by other crops, so that we can have precedents to work on. I support the Bill as it is with the proposed amendments. view