George Gitonga Murugara

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 711 to 720 of 828.

• 25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I would like to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife the following Question: a) Is the Cabinet Secretary aware that livestock bandits and rustlers have been given free access and hideout in Meru National Park with the sole aim of staging frequent and uncontrolled livestock expeditions into Tharaka Constituency? b) Why are livestock stolen and driven through Meru National Park never traced or recovered despite the park being a KWS controlled zone? c) What action is the Cabinet Secretary taking to ensure that the residents who lost their livestock, were impoverished and suffered damage are compensated? ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to contribute to this Motion and thank Hon. Caleb Kositany for presenting the same to the House. It is true that land matters in Kenya are very important and emotive. Most of the time, when we talk about land, especially for acquisition, it evokes very strong reactions from land owners and especially when it is designated for public purposes. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The greatest sufferers of lack of land for public utilities are educational institutions. In arid and semi-arid areas, we do not have a problem as far as land is concerned because most of it is available. Therefore, schools and other institutions benefit from that abundance of land. When The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: it comes to land in agricultural rich areas, schools and other institutions are deprived of land which they need for expansion. As a result, most learning institutions are confined to small pieces of land. The net effect is that schools cannot expand. They stagnate and, in fact, they are unable to cope with enrolment which rises from time to time due to population increase. The schools then have to set up branches and as they do so, more problems of land ownership are established. It is, therefore, important that the Government devises and puts in place a mechanism of compulsory ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We have had questions in this House of the Government acquiring land and failing to compensate the public. This is prevalent. This morning, we have a Question from Kwale where land belonging to citizens was acquired for purposes of the Standard Gauge Railway and no compensation was given. Where land is acquired for purposes of schools, learning institutions or colleges, that compensation must be given. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: It is also important to note that it is not just learning institutions that require land to be compulsorily acquired. We have other Government facilities which are coming up. In Tharaka Constituency, we have a designated Government project known as the High Grand Falls Dam, which is supposed to benefit the counties of Tharaka Nithi, Kitui, Tana River, Garissa and others. Land is earmarked for compulsory acquisition. The citizens are absolutely worried as to whether they are going to be compensated. I have explained that the Government cannot take land from citizens without compensating them, but it is that mechanism ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Motion and request that we adopt the Report. First and foremost, my observation is that this Supplementary Budget is really a reflection of the austerity measures that we do have to undertake, so as to comply with the major budget that we have before us. We have cuts proposed across sections. We have had to deal with reductions of the allocations we had made in respect of the Budget. While we say we can live with this, we have to look at what is ahead of us. We have to tighten ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in National Assembly: I support. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to support this Bill. As a Member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, I participated in the public hearings that gave us the Report which has been tabled and which has been referred to by Hon. Osotsi. I wish to confirm that the Committee went round the country and took views from all corners as representative of the Republic. Ninety per cent of all persons who gave their views support it. So, it is not true for the Member to state that there was almost equal division in ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I also wish to confirm that out of the Committee of more than 19 Members, only one gave a dissenting opinion and he was entitled to do so and he had his reasons. view