Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can check about Kiharu. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, in fact, we sent over 81,000 bags of DAP and 40,000 bags of CAN. As I speak, we have also given free DAP and CAN fertilizer to more than 26,400 people in Western Province. So, Western Province is well covered like any other part of this country. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: (a) The decision to publish Legal Notice No.109 prohibiting the exportation of raw nuts was informed by the recommendation made by the task force on revitalization of the nut industry which had overwhelming evidence of negative socio-economic impact arising from the export of raw nuts. (b) My Ministry, through the wider stakeholder consultation, is formulatFing the National Nut Crop Industry Policy whose legal framework will facilitate fair trade in the industry. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, there was consultation last year in Pwani University with all the growers of nuts. That is where the task force was formed because there was a complaint that the local processors--- view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can only go back to the Ministry and we see how far we can go with this matter or what we can do. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, during the consultation meeting, the farmers and processors expressed concern that they could not access the local nuts because they were being bought at a higher price. Indeed, that is true. They said that the nuts were being exported out of the country and they could not process them. At the moment, we have only a capacity of 45,000 kilograms and what is being produced now are 43,000 kilograms. So, some of the processors could not get nuts to process. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the farmers were not involved in the export of the nuts. So, we wanted ... view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I do not know any company or family that does this business. The hon. Member has made an allegation that these families have influenced the Ministry. Could he substantiate what he has alleged? This is because I do not understand what he has said. I do not know anything to do with that. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I want the hon. Member to withdraw the statement that “I cannot feign ignorance to protect cartels.” Honestly, I do not know anything or any cartel in this business. The only thing I know is that there was a consultation, which was held there. A taskforce was formed, which is still dealing with this issue. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, at the moment, I cannot table that information, but I can get the document. view