Dr. Hellen Sambili

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 71 to 80 of 313.

• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: No, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to strongly support this Motion. I want to state from the start that I am happy to have been the Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports when the National Youth Council was established in 2009. I want to really appreciate the hon. Members who supported me, as the Minister in charge of youth affairs at that time, to move the Motion that eventually resulted in the establishment of the National Youth Council. I would like to single you out as one of the people who supported me that famous ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am really proud of you! So, I was going to suggest that, because I do not want to take all the time, we need to support this. The boda boda young people we have and many of them get accidents and suffer, can we support them? Can we give them helmets? Can we train them properly so that they do not suffer? Let us have driving schools in constituencies and let them be trained. Let them get helmets. Let us help them. They have potential. view
• 3 Oct 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this amendment. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important to allow people to have freedom of association. I want to use myself as an example. If the elections law was not good during the 2007 General Elections, I would not be here. It is important to allow people to associate freely. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this amendment. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand here to support the extension of the time for discussing this issue. This issue of land, as my colleagues have said, is extremely critical and we are dealing with it for the future of this country. I support that we get the extended time so that we can do justice to this issue of land. That is because we had problems in the past and the most serious issue that affects our people is land. So, I stand here to support the extension of the time for discussing this issue. view
• 21 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on Tuesday 19th July, 2011, hon. Eng. Gumbo asked for a Ministerial Statement on the safety of Genetically Modified foodstuffs. That question was directed to the Ministry of Agriculture and later, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, which work closely together. view
• 21 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to respond on my part. Kenya is a signatory to the Cartagena Protocol on Bio-safety, which is a supplement to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The protocol specifically provides a guide for the regulation of handling, use and trans-boundary movement of living modified organisms, also referred to as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). view
• 21 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: To domesticate the protocol, the Government published the National Biotechnology Development Policy in 2006 and thereafter enacted the Biosafety Act in February, 2009. The policy provides guidance in research, development and use of biotechnology in various fields such as agriculture, environment, human health and industry. Prior to the enactment of the Biosafety Act, 2009, the National Council for Science and Technology, under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology developed and published the following documents to provide guidance on the development and application of modern biotechnology and research work involving GMOs under the Science and Technology Act, Cap.250, the ... view
• 21 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: 1. The biosafety contained use regulations. These regulations have been developed to govern the content of scientific research work in GMOs within contained or laboratory and greenhouse as well as confined field trial research establishment. view
• 21 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: 2. The biosafety environmental release regulations. These regulations have been developed to govern the release into the environment of GMOs with potential to propagate and placing of the same in the market. view