Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, the answer is a very firm “yes” but, of course, we have to work within the established practice under the Public Service Commission (PSC). Even the Commissioner of Prisons joined the Service at a grade which was not acceptable, and my Permanent Secretary (PS) wrote to the PSC to ensure that the matter is dealt with. However, I want to assure this House that the welfare of those men and women servicing in the Prison Service is being taken care of because they do a very important job. As I said, in addition to ... view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Yes, of course, when I was at the university. Believe me, even when I took over, the bucket toilets were there but we have since gotten rid of them. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my learned friend did not even take the trouble to listen to what I was saying. I have even visited Meru Prison, which is in his home county. Out there, they are doing fantastic things, including development of a biogas system. The point I was stressing is that we have now gotten rid of bucket toilets. We have even made sure that inmates are now given toilet papers. Hon. Members will be surprised to know that until very recently, inmates had to cut pieces of the blankets that were supplied to them for use as ... view
• 13 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to reply. (a) Out of 50 cases concluded by the Sugar Arbitration Tribunal, I hereby table details of 40 cases successfully arbitrated in favour of sugarcane farmers since 2006. view
• 13 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: I also table a list of cases which have been dismissed by the Arbitration Tribunal. view
• 13 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also table the amounts awarded to various complainants. view
• 13 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: (b) All sugar companies honour and pay farmers except in cases where sugar companies have challenged the ruling made by the Sugar Arbitration Tribunal in the High Court. (c) I cannot take disciplinary action on millers who have filed an appeal at the High Court. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have a Bill in this House called the Sugar (Amendment) Bill of 2011. In it, we have put an amendment whereby we are giving the Arbitration Tribunal some powers to deal with millers who are not honouring awards made by the arbitration. view
• 13 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, currently, the tribunal has no powers to enforce some of these awards. However, as a Ministry, we are now involved. For instance, today I talked to the management of some of the sugar companies and demanded to know when these payments will be made. Also, as I said, we have a Bill awaiting legislation by this House to give more powers to the tribunal, so that it can deal with those millers who are not honouring the payments. view
• 13 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it will not take more than three weeks before the Bill I am talking about comes here. It is published and is in this House. We are waiting to deal with it. I am requesting that once it comes up for debate, hon. Members come up with amendments so that we can strengthen the tribunal, because we are experiencing a lot of problems in the sugar industry. view
• 13 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in fact, some of the companies were ready to fax documentary evidence showing what they have already paid when we requested for this information. I am sure that a lot more is going to be paid very quickly. view