Gideon Sitelu Konchella

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: You just need to get--- view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I withdraw those remarks because my colleagues are agitated. view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I withdraw and apologise, knowing that history will judge me right in the future. view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have not allowed the hon. Member to inform me. view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Hon. ole Ntimama is a respected leader of the Maasai people. I know he has defended the Mau Forest for the sake of mankind and not because of his own interests. view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: It has taken environmental experts one year to come up with this Report. We, the leaders from the Mau region have been called to attend numerous meetings held by the Prime Minsiter in his Office. We have addressed this issue and agreed that the problem of Mau Forest can only be solved if we adopt this Report which covers all the problems all of us here are addressing. So, this is a Report that we must respect, as a House and I urge all hon. Members to support it. This Report is not cast on stone. We can still amend ... view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we hoped that before the rains set in, nobody should be in Mau Forest. If you go there, you will see destruction going on and it is time we phased out this problem. I would like this House to know that the Maasai Mau has the largest forest cover and if it is destroyed, we will not have water for our cattle. There will also be no rain for the people who live in Kericho and their tea and other crops will not grow. view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: It has taken one year to do this Report. Even if we asked the relevant Departmental Committee to go through this Report as they wanted yesterday, they will not be able to do what has been done by more than 20 institutions to produce this document. This document covers the entire Mau Complex because the rivers that flow to Lake Baringo, Lake Natron and the Mara River have dried up. I invite hon. Members of this House to visit the Maasai Mara so that they can see what has happened. Zebras and Wildebeasts are crossing--- view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to turn to Recommendation “F” on page 47 of this Report. The Task Force recommended that the Maasai Mau Trust Land Forest should be gazetted and managed by an autonomous body contracted by the Narok County Council. This is trustland which belongs to Narok County Council. I recommend that the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the Narok County Council form a task force--- This is because even if you go to the Mau Forest view
• 10 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, who has been arrested so far? Nobody has been arrested. So, if the President issues orders--- view