12 May 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, my first priority was the prisoners. I can see the hon. Minister for Water and Irrigation is right here. I heard the hon. Member for Bura talk about tinkering. I think we can co-operate with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation to make sure that the community around Kodiaga GK Prison is actually helped through this difficult time of drought.
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12 May 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am very grateful for the information from the Minister for Water and Irrigation that, currently, there is a lot of work going on with regard to provision of sewerage facilities around Kisumu Municipality. The Ministry is going to work with the Prisons Department to make sure that we do not have a problem, including going deep inside the lake to be able to rehabilitate the pipeline out of Lake Victoria. I think this hon. Member, my very good learned friend and a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee, should be thankful to us.
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12 May 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very urgent matter. We cannot continue using Kisumu Fire Brigade. Therefore, this is an emergency situation and we are treating it as such. Therefore, we are working on it immediately.
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12 May 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to make the following Statement pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.36 (4). May I take this opportunity to first of all thank you for your Communication from the Chair yesterday. What you communicated was unanimously agreed on at the level of the House Business Committee (HBC). We have to unlock any obstacle that comes in the way of full implementation of our Constitution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the House will next week continue debate on the following two Bills; the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Bill; I notice that that is the thing we ...
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4 May 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The management of Mumias Sugar Company confiscated equipment from unlicensed jaggery millers used in sukari nguru processing within its mandate source of cane supply because they were interfering with cane supply from its contracted farmers. (b) The case is in court. (c) The company finances cane development to contracted cane farmers, meets emergency, financial---
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4 May 2011 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. (c) The company finances cane development to contracted cane farmers, meets emergency financial needs by farmers and pays promptly for cane deliveries within a month as stipulated in the Sugar Act 2001. Therefore, farmers are restrained from diverting their cane to sukari nguru makers. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the question of me producing the court papers, I do not have them now, but I can supply them.
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4 May 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, previously, the machines that were confiscated from some of these millers were returned. So far, we have only five
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4 May 2011 in National Assembly:
registered jaggery millers. The equipment for the licensed millers will be given back to them if they were confiscated. But for those unlicensed ones--- A jaggery miller is considered to be a miller like any other and he is supposed to have a licence. If you have a licence, you are not supposed to be harassed.
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4 May 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of the millers finance cane farmers to do the business of cane farming. But I do not see why a farmer who has not been financed or entered into any contract with any miller should be forced to sell his or her cane. He has the freedom to sell his cane where he wants. But if he has been financed by a miller, seriously, you have to honour that contract. Most of the people who are taking their cane to jaggery millers are flouting their obligation to the millers. So, they end up just ...
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4 May 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with the hon. Member. I know that the Act is also faulty in some clauses and we have now come up with an amendment Act which is being looked at by the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives and a copy has already been passed to the Attorney-General. I can assure the House that very soon the document will be here and all the errors in the Act are going to be corrected. For example, it is true that cane is supposed to be weighed at the farm gate but that is not ...
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