Grace Jemutai Kiptui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of nutrition being provided to children in school. All these rights are guaranteed in our Constitution. It is for this reason that I brought this amendment on the Basic Education Act No.39 of 2016. view
• 29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: I, therefore, beg to reply. view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I support the Motion. I would like to congratulate the Budget and Appropriations Committee for a job well done considering the constraints in time. This being an elections year and the fact that we have moved the Budget date backwards, they have tried under the chairmanship of Hon. Musyimi. view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: I congratulate the Committee for having remembered to ensure that the police and security forces are well taken care of. However, they forgot something. What is missing is the allocation for the Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) who were employed recently and deployed to areas that have insecurity problems like Baringo, Samburu and Elgeyo Marakwet counties. It is not fair that we pay the regular police and not consider allowances for the KPRs because they are doing much more than the regular police. view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Another aspect is the provision for infrastructure development in the country. I am very hopeful on this because I know once infrastructure is taken care of, people will move goods from one place to another and they will create jobs. A case in point is the SGR where we know that along its route, there will be many offshoots of developmental factors that will encourage people to do business and create employment for our young people. We know for sure that the youth in this country are unemployed. The unemployment rate is very high and we feel this when we ... view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: The other thing I am very hopeful about is the issue of sanitary pads. The money was always in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, but its impact was not felt. It is now clear that it has been moved to the National Affirmative Action Fund and it will be a direct benefit to girls in schools, especially in rural schools which have a minimal amount of money. Their parents cannot afford to take them to boarding secondary schools. Many girls in day schools miss school because of lack of sanitary pads. I am very glad that this problem ... view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: The issue that caught my eye is the Equalisation Fund. My wish is that we amend what we have here, so that more deserving counties can benefit. For example, Baringo County should have qualified, which was below the line. I was told that Baringo did not qualify because of the kilometres of tarmacked roads that it has. However, many other counties with more kilometres of tarmacked roads have qualified to benefit from the Fund. In that respect, we should be absorbed because ours is an ASAL area. We needed to benefit from the Equalisation Fund to help us come The ... view
• 28 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: up with programmes that will hasten development in Baringo County. Some parts of our county are very remote. We needed to hasten development in these areas, so that they are at par with the other parts of the country. It is not fair that we are denied the Equalisation Fund because of kilometres of tarmac. There are many other factors that would have been considered, for example, unemployment and lack of schools like we have in Baringo County. The money we have been denied would have been used to enhance development in the county. Some money has been allocated to ... view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the State of the Nation Address by the President last Wednesday. Despite what other people may think, the Speech was well balanced and mature. It gave the picture of our country as it is. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Indeed, when it comes to issues of development, it is quite clear that the leap that the nation has taken since 2013 is not comparable to the past. For example, we have the railway line which we have been told took over 100 years to construct in our country. The only rail that is useful right now is the old one that was put up by the colonial people. We will be proud of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) once it is completed. That is because it has been done under our own regime. Besides, the President touched on job ... view