Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1011 to 1020 of 1161.

• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, while appreciating the eloquence of my friend, the hon. Member for Eldoret North, I want him to appreciate that in the course of this week, His Excellency the President, together with the Prime Minister-designate, will meet the people of the Rift Valley Province. I hope all of us can move to the Rift Valley to join these two leaders and assure the IDPs that they can now go back to their farms. These are the number one farmers. view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thought the Chair was going to be kind to me and rule the "governor" of the Rift Valley out of order! That was clearly not a point of order! He could have had the time to argue all that. This has a direct relevance. This is the time for the country to act together. As we speak, the rains have set in and the IDPs have no place to go to. They need to go back to their farms. Therefore, the proposed visit by His Excellency the President and hon. Raila is absolutely relevant. I am ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is a completely different Question. The hon. Member for Ndia would agree with me that we need to work very hard in that direction. I hope we can discover the huge deposits of phosphates that are, probably, in Ndia. There is a lot of this stuff. We do not have to rely on importation of fertiliser, year in, year out. However, we must really thank the Japanese because last week, when the Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs came here, he was able to empathise with the situation in this country, including the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Member for Yatta will appreciate what I earlier said that we are putting the whole Government machinery in place. Indeed, if there is one crucial matter that is before us, as a House and a nation, is making sure that our people go back to their farms. We also need to create the necessary and enabling environment for them to go back to their farms. So, the matter of fertiliser is immediate. By the time the President will be in the Rift Valley Province by the end of this week, I am sure, fertiliser will be ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are able to give all that assurance, including my prayers that the hon. Member for Malava Constituency becomes the next Minister for Agriculture, so that he could deal with it. view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my good friend, hon. Kosgey, knows clearly that I cannot tell him right now that this is the price. However, by the end of this week, when the President will be in the Rift Valley Province, we shall have dealt with this matter. I said we are putting into top gear the whole matter of mobilising the entire Ministry of Agriculture. We also have to appreciate the problem as hon. C. Kilonzo and hon. Shitanda said--- view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was saying that the problem of middlemen is a real problem. To that extent, I agree with hon. C. Kilonzo and hon. Shitanda. We need to get to the bottom of this problem, so that farmers will be able to get fertiliser at affordable prices. In the past, the problem has been that when people get some donation from a friendly country like Japan, we find middlemen creeping in and really making huge profits when they know that, in the first place, it is illegal. We need to get rid of them. These are ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can only agree that there has been great fluctuation of the Kenya Shilling against the dollar. For instance, we all know that in January, the exchange rate of shilling to a dollar jumped to Kshs72. Now, it is at about Kshs62. We can all imagine its effect on importation. I think the good news is that since this fertiliser is a donation from the Japanese Government, one can only hope that it is free of these exchange fluctuations. However, the most important thing is to be able to get farmers' fertiliser at affordable prices. Had it ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, much as I agree that all the farmers were not IDPs, but let us also appreciate that we are dealing with about 300,000 people, and mainly farmers who are unable to plant their crops. So, we cannot really ignore that segment, if we are serious. I agree with the Member for Kimilili that the Minister of State for Special Programmes and, indeed, the Minister for Agriculture and all of us have to move to the salvation of our farmers. If we do not do that, we will have great famine, thanks to the kind of politics we ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to seek a Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Transport. If you look at newspapers today, you will see that from Friday to yesterday, we lost 83 people through road accidents. Many more people were left maimed. Between the years 2003 and 2005, this country reduced road accidents to about nil. I would like the Minister to tell us what happened such that we are now losing 20 people daily. As he responds to this request, I would like him to tell us whether vehicles on our roads are no longer fitted with safety belts ... view