Hellen Chelangat Chepkwony

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 51 to 60 of 97.

• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Government and the county government to sit together and identify the activities that are to be done by each side. view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: I still want to talk about the roads. With that duplication, they should determine one thing. Either the county governments should construct all the roads except tarmacking--- The county government could be given that mandate so that the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) money is used for construction of building and other things. With that, I support the amendments. The Senate should be very careful and stern. It should supervise the counties rather than coming to supervise Members of the National Assembly. You will find that Senators are not even in their areas, but are just here talking without even supervising ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to support the Report. We went to that area especially Muri Farm. On that farm, we found many squatters who have settled on it. I cannot call them squatters because they have really settled in a nice way. They have constructed schools, administrative buildings like the DO’s office and chief’s offices and even dispensaries. So, I cannot call those people squatters. They are only squatters because they have not been issued with title deeds. view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: It is not that all these people are troublesome or rude to the AFC but they had given suggestions that they pay the principal amount of money to AFC. As a Committee, we really supported them. If the coffee farmers’ debts are waived, why can the Government not also waive the money they owe the AFC? These people never refused to pay. They accepted to negotiate with AFC that they can pay them and allow them to take a certain portion of their land. So, here, I wanted to remind Members that when they will be talking about this issue ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: For the other three farms namely Mathengeta, Tumutumu, Riakanau and Drake, we found squatters are on other people’s land. But the issue we have here in Kenya, as the Member for Kisauni has said is that people buy properties or land and leave them vacant. This is the case and yet we have people who have no land. Obviously, they will settle on that land especially if they are people from that area. You cannot expect them to stay on the streets when there is vacant land there. view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Those people who are there saw that this land is vacant. The people who bought the land never developed those farms. We are saying that since they have the title deeds, let the NLC go there, investigate and give them an alternative settlement area. You cannot take anybody’s land. We need the NLC to make sure that they compensate these squatters because they are very many to an extent that they cannot again be sent to the streets as IDPs. We are trying to make sure that the issue of IDPs is limited. We do not want to create more ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: we really need to settle those squatters. If possible, the NLC can compensate the owners of the land because the squatters are many. The squatters could be over 40 times the number of owners of the titles. We need to move with speed so that they are settled. We do not want issues to come up. We found that those people could not go to their farms because of squatters, which is really serious. They could be having eviction orders, but there is no way they can go and settle on those farms. So, we need the Government to make ... view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for inviting me to talk about this Bill. I stand to support it because it is an advantage to our youth and women who have been marginalized. We know that there are big companies and our youth and women have always been disadvantaged. But this Bill is going to help them register companies without any difficulty. There has been a lot of corruption in Kenya. When we pass this Bill, the companies which have been hiding behind the curtains and did not want to name the directors of the registered companies, will be shown ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support this Motion. The reasoning is that it will help many people to register their marriages. This will only happen if the Government decides to decentralize those services to the sub- counties. We know that in Kenya now, we have devolved most of the activities of the national Government to the counties. If those services are decentralized, we shall get more people getting married. By that, we shall get more revenue because many people will be registering their marriages. According to me, the services should be decentralized because the distance from ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: urging, rather, it is a matter of resolving. As Parliament, we have to resolve issues. It is not a matter of urging another body to do things for us. We need to resolve. view