Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministerial Statement is long but I will only take three points which were raised by the hon. Member. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: He first talked about farm gate weighing. The other one was burnt cane and the third one was the way forward. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, currently the Sugar Act, Paragraphs 5 and 6 (A and B) contradict one another and we are going to subject these two paragraphs to the stakeholders to determine who is going to be responsible for spillage of cane from the tractors. The Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) is encouraging farmers or transporters to use high hold trailers so that the cane does not fall down on the way. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: With regard to weighing, the law at the moment states that it should be weighed at the farm. Fe bruary 24, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the first issue which was sought by the hon. Member, as I said, the Sugar Act in Section 5(b) states that it is the miller who is supposed to pick the cane from the farm and then take it to the factory. Section 6(a) of the same Act also talks about the grower. That is why I am saying we need to subject these two sections of the law to stakeholders. This will be introduced in the Sugar (Amendment) Bill, 2009, which will be brought before this House once we come back from recess. That will ... view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: On payment, the hon. Member has suggested that the millers should be penalised. The way it is now, it is even difficult for the millers to pay the farmers. If we add anything on top of that, these factories will close down. That issue will be addressed by the Sugar (Amendment) Bill, 2009. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: 5164 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES February 24, 2009 view
• 19 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, speaking as a lawyer, I want to advise my friend, who is a veterinary doctor, that the mere fact that the Attorney-General chose to enter a nolleprosequi does not, as the colleague next to you will agree, necessarily mean that those officers were actually innocent. What it means is that there was need in the national interest and other issues considering the circumstances, either for lack of evidence, for the Attorney-General decided, in his wisdom, to enter a nolle prosequi . I want to assure Dr. Monda that we are now looking at these cases individually. ... view
• 19 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: We are looking at the others because there may be others who have mitigating circumstances that would actually mean that they will have to be redeployed. However, I want to share this with the House. Because of the nature of this matter, it amounted to a mutiny. I said so, at that particular time. Mutiny is regarded as a very serious offence within the disciplined forces. In fact, I had to stand firm and say that rather than disband the entire prison service as happened to the Air Force in 1982, I am sure the Members will remember that, we ... view
• 19 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy speaker, Sir, hon. Kapondi may not have realised that the new Commissioner for Prisons and his deputy were actually appointed in September last year. One of the things that they have done is to stabilise the Force. I am very proud of the progress that they have made to reform the prison service. They are very busy trying to look at the pros and cons of the redeployment of these officers. I would not, therefore, want the House even to jeopardise the chances of these officers. I may, as the Minister responsible, even have private opinion regarding some ... view