Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 871 to 880 of 1161.

• 12 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have 112 depots all over the country and we are increasing the number by another five. I want to assure the House that these depots are for all Kenyans. They do not belong to one individual. If there is a case like the one the hon. Member referred to, we would like to know about it. view
• 12 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, all the depots can serve anybody in Kenya. Just because a depot is in Kibwezi does not mean that it belongs to Kibwezi people alone. Anybody can access it. At the moment, the sale of maize has been stopped for a while. That is why you will find that some of the depots are not active. We have fertilizers in almost every depot, especially where there is rain at the moment. view
• 12 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can confirm to the House, and to the hon. Member, that they now have a manager who is responsible. He will be on his own. We posted him there because people were travelling for long distances, from Sagana, to access the services. Before the end of this sitting, I will tell the hon. Member the name of the manager who has reported there. view
• 12 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is the third time this Question is before the House. The Chair has dropped it but tomorrow it might come back to the House again. The Member is not here to ask it--- view
• 12 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I really sympathize with the hon. Member, together with his constituents, for losing 15 people and ten injured. We can defer this Question to next week, when he will be available. view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Government has put the following measures in place to support cotton farming under the Cotton (Amendment) Act:- (i) Established the Cotton Development Authority. (ii) Funded Cotton Development Authority since its inception as follows:- Year 2006/2007 - Kshs250 million; Year 2007/2008 - Kshs241 million and Year 2008/2009 - Kshs200 million (iii) The Government has also bought five vehicles for cotton promotion activities. (iv) Provision of free cotton seed for planting to farmers, a total of 2,725 metric tonnes valued at Kshs48.9 million between 2006 and 2008. (v) Initiated certified cotton seed ... view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those are too many questions but I will try to answer one. In September, we took a house which was grabbed from the Cotton Development Authority, which is in Riverside. That is where the Authority is based. It is being run by our secretariat from the Ministry but we are in the process of hiring a Chief Executive to take up cotton and really popularise it. view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was a Board which was dissolved. The other one was constituted just last year. They have taken over just now. They have an office unlike before when they did not have a place where they could operate from. We are trying, together with other stakeholders and our development partners, to look for a financier for cotton because this crop is grown in 42 districts in this country. Very soon, they will start to do promotions. We are bringing some seeds from Turkey because the major issue has been seeds. view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the going price at the moment is between Kshs20 and Kshs25 per kilogramme. Due to the number of farmers who have been trained to grow this crop, we expect this time to have a higher production. We hope this will push the price from Kshs25 to Kshs30 per kilogramme. view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is not really research. What we are doing in Mwea is seed multiplication. That is the responsibility of KARI just as they have done with other crops like maize. We are giving them Kshs70 million to do that. It is also being done in Kibos. view