Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we did a survey and held a stakeholders’ meeting with the growers and millers, they wanted another bank apart from the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC). We went to the market and tendered and three institutions were picked. They were National Bank of Kenya, AFC and Equity Bank. Equity Bank won the tender and we are negotiating with them at the moment. view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to give assurance on something that I am not going to deliver. But I said that negotiation will be completed in two weeks. If we do not agree, we will look for another avenue of giving out the loans. view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to issue a Ministerial Statement which was requested by hon. Washiali on the importation of 25,000 metric tonnes of sugar. I want to make some correction. It is not 25,000 tonnes. What was imported into this country was 2,350 metric tones of sugar. view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: An Egyptian company, United Sugar Company, has been contracted to import 25,000 metric tonnes of white refined sugar with a consignee being Kenya Breweries Limited. Already, 2,350 metric tonnes of white refined sugar were delivered on January, 2011, leaving a balance of 22,650. The above consignment was shipped in from Egypt and, hence, not subject to Import Duty as Egypt is a member of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) trading block. Thus, it is granted zero tariffs on a product manufactured within COMESA region. The presentation of the COMESA certificate of origin by the United Sugar ... view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, sugar imports manufactured and imported within the COMESA block are not subject to duty charges while sugar imports manufactured outside the trade block are subjected to a 10 per cent duty charge. Should the sugar be determined to have originated from Brazil, then the importer will pay the Kenya Government Kshs13,774,760 as Import Duty. view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. view
• 19 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not see how the Ministry has violated the Act. It is the KSB which controls imports and not the Ministry. view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will take less than five minutes. view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we will do so. view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I just want to inform the Member that, in fact, we have been waiting for the report of the Committee, which they have given us. They have given us a draft Bill and we are now merging it with ours and the final Bill will be brought to the House in the next 30 days. view