Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, at the moment, the NCPB has already bought over 100,000 bags of maize. But the problem is that the maize is not quite dry. The millers are also allowed to buy from the farmers. At the moment, the going price is Kshs3,000 per bag. view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my answers have nothing to do with my neck. I am only giving you the answer to what you have asked. What I am telling you is that even yourself and everybody else in Kenya is allowed to go to the farmers and buy maize. So, it is open to everybody. I know that millers and traders are also doing that. That is because maize by farmers is cheaper than what is being imported. view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: It is the policy of the Government to buy maize from our farmers. But I am telling hon. Members that we only allocated Kshs1 billion this financial year to buy SGR stocks. view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the priority of the Government is to feed its citizens. The issue which he is giving as a problem is the money. I am going to talk to the Minister of State for Special Programmes. I will ask her to come to this House and find out whether she can be given more money to buy the maize. view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is the intention of the Government to increase the SGR stocks from four million bags of maize to eight million but we are in the process. We cannot buy all the eight million bags at once. Already, there is Kshs1 billion which is going to buy over 330,000 bags of maize. That is geared towards achieving the eight million bags of maize that we require. view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: It is true that in the last financial year, NCPB did not buy any commercial maize. But this year, they are going to buy maize worth Kshs2 billion for commercial purposes. view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the last time the issue of the Kshs10 billion came up, I went to look for the answer. I found out that the Kshs10 billion was allocated to several Ministries. The Ministry of State for Special Programmes got Kshs5.4 billion. The Ministry of Water and Irrigation got Kshs2 billion. The Ministry of Education got Kshs2 billion. The Ministry of Agriculture got Kshs496 million. We used that amount to buy fertilizer. The Ministry of Livestock Development got Kshs389 million. The Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation got Kshs392 million while the Ministry of State for the Development of ... view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: (a) I am aware that tea export has overtaken tourism as the leading foreign exchange earner for the country. In 2010, earnings from tea export amounted to Kshs97 billion, compared to Kshs73.6 billion earned from the tourism sector over the same period. view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: (b) I am aware that despite the high cost of production occasioned by rising cost of energy, farm inputs and labour, the farmers have continued to earn reasonable returns from the tea farming. view